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Solar Module

Premier Energies to Set Up New 1 GW TOPCon Solar Module Facility by March 2025

Premier Energies Global’s board of directors has approved the setting up of a 1 GW TOPCon solar module manufacturing facility. This facility is an additio…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Improving Vertical Bifacial PV System Performance With Free-Space Luminescent Solar Concentrators

New research from the Netherlands shows that using free-space luminescent solar concentrators could be used to considerably increase bifacial solar module perfo…

Solar Cell

Fraunhofer ISE Developing Copper Metallization for Tandem Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cells

The German research institute said it is currently exploring three copper metallization methods: Screen printing, FlexTrail printing and rotary printing. The pr…

Solar Module

Spanish Researchers Find Revamping Modules and Inverters Is the Most Profitable Strategy

A group of researchers have carried out a techno-economic analysis of three revamping strategies for an operating photovoltaic power plant in southeast Spain. T…

Electric Vehicles

Rho Motion: Record Number EVs Sold in November

November 2024 marked another record-breaking month for EV sales with 1.8 million units sold globally according to EV research-house, Rho Motion. November overto…

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Tests Advanced VVER Reactor Fuel

The tests are being carried out at the NIIAR at the MIR.M1 research reactorTests are underway using the MIR.M1 research reactor at Russia’s Research Insti…

SMR

Amentum Evaluates SMR Potential in Norway

US-based Amentum and Norwegian engineering and architecture company Multiconsult Norge have been selected by Halden Kjernekraft to evaluate deployment of a smal…

Nuclear Reactor

Historic ADE-2 Reactor Transformation Underway

Rosatom’s Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK – Gorno Khimiheskovo Kombinata) in Zheleznogorsk has begun to decommission the ADE-2 industrial uranium-gr…

Nuclear Reactor

Firms Selected to Evaluate SMR Deployment in Halden

US-based engineering company Amentum and Norwegian consulting firm Multiconsult Norge AS have been appointed by Halden Kjernekraft AS to evaluate the potential …

Floating Offshore Wind

Delmar Systems to Provide Moorings for TotalEnergies’ Floating Wind Pilot Project

Houston-headquartered Delmar Systems has been selected by Archer Wind to deliver the mooring scope for TotalEnergies’ Culzean floating offshore wind pilot…

Solar Cell

Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Based on Wide-Bandgap Top Device Achieves 33.10% Efficiency

Researchers in China have integrated a wide-bandgap perovskite solar cell with a hybrid back contact device in a four-terminal tandem cell that achieves high ef…

Solar Module

Cooling PV Modules With Lauric Acid and Nanoparticles

Thai researchers developed three organic phase-change material (PCM) mixtures with nanoparticles to cool PV modules and improve efficiency. They used lauric aci…

Floating Solar

Testing Rigid Connectors in Floating Photovoltaics

New research from China shows that using rigid connectors instead of polyester ropes in floating photovoltaic arrays may help reduce the relative motion of floa…

Green Hydrogen

DH2 to Build Spain’s Largest Green Hydrogen Production Network in Extremadura

DH2 Energy has unveiled plans to develop four large-scale green hydrogen facilities in Spain’s Extremadura region, with a combined capacity of 1.5GW.Resea…

Floating Solar

Combining Floating PV With Compressed Air Energy Storage

Researchers from Egypt and the UK developed a new floating PV system concept that utilizes compressed air for energy storage. The system has a roundtrip efficie…