Germany's solar industry is in deep crisis and threatens to implode in the summer. Solutions have been around for a long time but internal power struggles and debates over distance rules between wind turbines are holding things back. EURACTIV Germany reports.
SGRE, a quarterly journal, dedicates to the latest advancement of smart grid and renewable energy. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas.
Since CIGS requires a layer 100 times thinner than conventional silicon solar systems, a few dollars’ worth of CIGS raw ingredients can deliver the same power as a hundred dollars’ worth of silicon wafers.
Industry analysts project that building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems will represent the fastest-growing segment of the photovoltaic market over the next decade.
HelioVolt’s FASST™ technology produces high-performance solar thin-film with pioneering time and materials efficiencies. 10 to 100 times faster than current processes. 100 times thinner than traditional silicon.
Powered by $77 million in new investment, startup Heliovolt, based in Austin, TX, will build a factory next year for mass-producing a new type of solar cell that could, in much of the United States, make solar electricity as cheap as electricity from the
StarSolar, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, aims to capture and use photons that ordinarily pass through solar cells without generating electricity...at half the cost of current solar cells.
A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years...at half the cost of conventional so