Bifacial perovskite solar cells for indoor applications achieve 30.3% efficiency
Scientists in India have fabricated indoor bifacial perovskite solar cells that purportedly achieve remarkable power output per single cell. The devices also reached a bifaciality factor of 0.73.
Nigerian manufacturer commissions 100 MW solar panel factory
Auxano Solar has commissioned a 100 MW solar panel assembly factory in Lagos, Nigeria. It launched the project in 2016.
Waaree Energies wins top honors at 16th REI Expo Awards
The company was awarded both the ‘REI Company of the Year’ and the ‘REI Jury Recognition Leadership in Solar Manufacturing’ Awards.
Japanese scientists design flexible crystalline silicon solar modules with PET front cover
The new solar panels have flexible properties and are suitable for roofs with loading restrictions. According to their creators, the modules showed high reliability under both high temperature and high humidity conditions.
Grew expanding solar module capacity to 6 GW, adding 2.8 GW of ingots-to-cells production lines
Chiripal Group’s Grew, which currently has 1.2 GW of solar module capacity, is adding 4.8 GW of new production lines. It is also setting up 2.8 GW of ingots, wafers and cells manufacturing capacity under PLI scheme.
How women are driving the sustainable energy transition
The sustainable energy transition transcends the ambit of technological change; it is, fundamentally, a societal transformation. Women, constituting half of the global population, assume an unequivocally vital role in this paradigm shift.
JinkoSolar ships 52 GW in first 9 months of 2023
JinkoSolar says it shipped 52 GW of PV modules in the first nine months of 2023, bringing its total shipments to 190 GW since its foundation.
RSOLEC announces plans for 5 GW solar wafer fab with an expansion roadmap to 20 GW in India
Renaissance Solar and Electronic Materials (RSOLEC) has announced its plans for solar crystal growth and wafer production in India. The company will initially set up a 5 GW per annum facility and plans expansion to exceed 20 GW capacity in the long term.
Reducing solar module temperature via dew-point evaporative cooling
Japanese scientists have designed a cooling system that reduces the solar panel operating temperature at the air inlet of the module. It consists of a dew-point evaporative cooler that supplies the near-saturation air to wet air channels that are attached to the back of a PV panel.
Goldi Solar introduces 705 W bifacial TOPCon panel
India’s Goldi Solar has introduced bifacial TOPCon panels with power outputs ranging from 680 Wp to 705 Wp and efficiency of up to 22.7%.
