Efficiency

Green Hydrogen

Ingeteam Awarded a New Green Hydrogen Contract In Australia

Ingeteam rectifiers will be installed to power 3 x 10W electrolysis modules.Ingeteam has had a subsidiary in Australia for over 10 years and important reference…

Solar Cell

Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Self-Assembled Monolayer Achieves 23.31% Efficiency

A research team in China improved the efficiency and stability of an inverted perovskite cell using a co-assembled approach to incorporate self-assembled monola…

Solar Cell

Trina Solar Hits New 27.08% Record for HJT Solar Cell

Trina Solar has achieved a world-record 27.08% efficiency rating for a new n-type fully passivated heterojunction (HJT) solar cell. The Institute for Solar Ener…

Solar Cell

Qcells Hits 28.6% Efficiency With Scalable Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cell

South Korea-based solar module manufacturer Qcells has set a new efficiency world record for a commercially scalable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell, produ…

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…