Efficiency

Solar Cell

Nexwafe Claims 24.4% Efficiency for Heterojunction Solar Cell Built With Its Ultrathin Wafers

The German wafer manufacturer said the efficiency was achieved with an unspecified M6 HJT commercial production line, without specifying if the result was certi…

Australia

Weighing Vortexes as a Method to Optimise Hydroelectric Power Efficiency

Hydroelectric energy is often considered the backbone of clean power, but an urgent need to improve efficiency is driving engineers to explore a whirlwind of op…

Electric Vehicles

DOE: Efficiency of My 2024 EVs Ranges From 53 to 140 MPGe

Expressed in miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe), the efficiency of Model Year 2024n electric vehicles (EVs) range from 53 to 140 MPGe, according to the US Depar…

Solar thermal

Dualsun Presents Heat Pump-Compatible Residential PVT Panel

The French manufacturer said its PVT module features a PV module efficiency of up to 21.8% and a thermal output ranging from 459 W/m2.DualSun, a French photovol…

Green Hydrogen

Egypt’s Abu Qir Fertilizers Signs Deals for Green Hydrogen, Automation

Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, has overseen the signing of three strategic agreements aimed at enhancing the sustainab…

Solar Panel

20 KW University Vineyard Agrisolar Array Tests Crop Yield and Panel Efficiency

Victoria-based renewables company Greenwood has answered the call from the University of Melbourne to install 48 solar panels at its Dookie Campus’ workin…

Solar Technology

PVOP Project Launched to Digitise PV Sector

The PVOP project is under way to use digitalisation to set new benchmarks for the operational efficiency, profitability and sustainability of photovoltaics.The …

Solar Cell

Waaree Energies, IIT Bombay Collaborate to Drive Perovskite Solar R&D

Waaree Energies says it has agreed to support IIT Bombay in creating an advanced fabrication and characterization setup to develop high-efficiency perovskite so…

Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom Starts Reactor Tests Aiming to Increase Nuclear Fuel Enrichment

Russia's Rosatom is testing VVER nuclear fuel containing the neutron absorber erbium and uranium enriched to about 5%. It says such fuel could significantly…

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

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…

Efficiency Research

Inside the Heart of the Magnetocaloric Heat Pump of the Future

Researchers at Ames National Laboratory are have reportedly cracked the code for the energy efficient, refrigerant-free magnetocaloric heat pump of the future. …

Solar Cell

Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Amidinium Passivator Achieves 26.3% Efficiency

An international research team has fabricated an inverted perovskite solar cell with an electron transport layer passivated with amidinium ligands instead of am…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Photovoltaic-Thermal Window Achieves 3.6% Electrical Efficiency, Provides Hot Water at 50 C

Scientists have developed a window that uses a semi-transparent amorphous silicon PV layer. The group tested the system in London at different inclination angle…