solar cell efficiency
First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the Arizona company which has been garnering awards almost since its inception (in 1999), announced another milestone on January 16th.
On Tuesday, December 20, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) transferred licensing technology for black silicon to solar development-stage firm Natcore Technology Inc.
Researchers from the University of Toronto, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), and Pennsylvania State University have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot solar cell of all time. An additional contributor was Huazhong University of Wuhan, China.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, one of more than a dozen national laboratories vested in renewable energy research under the auspices of the U.S.
Iowa State University (ISU) researchers, working in the Ames Laboratory (a U.S. Department of Energy-operated facility run by ISU), have reportedly developed a process whereby polymer solar cells become more efficient by the addition of a uniformly thin, light-absorbing layer on specially textured substrates.
Solar cell manufacturers are consistently leap-frogging one another in production of the most efficient solar cell.
On October 13, word leaked out that Macy’s fulfillment center in Goodyear, Arizona was getting a solar power system – one that company representatives described as “the biggest single-rooftop system in the United St
Engineers at Stanford University have run successful tests on a new solar conversion process that boasts efficiency upwards of 60% -- and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil.
SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) has produced a full-scale solar cell which can convert sunlight into electricity at an efficiency rate of 24.2% -- a new world record.
