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Tuesday 4th April 2017
Over 26 percent efficiency achieved using perovskite-silicon tandem approach 
Wednesday 29th March 2017
US Patent Office grants patent to tin perovskite/crystalline silicon thin film cell
Wednesday 29th March 2017
While previously seen as an outsider of energy production, storage is mainstreaming thanks to lower costs, new technology and the fact that power storage has become a viable, less costly means to load level and harmonise electric power fed from decentralised energy resources. By Mark Andrews, Technical Editor
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Tuesday 28th March 2017
WElink Group to build €230m solar farm in Portugal Dublin-headquartered modular home builder and solar energy developer WElink Energy is to build Europe’s largest privately funded solar farm in Portugal following the signing of the EPC contract with China Triumph International Engineering Co Ltd (CTIEC). The £200 million Solara4 solar project will have a 220MW peak capacity and will generate enough clean electricity to power the equivalent of 200,000 homes with an emission reduction of 218,310 tons of carbon dioxide. Commenting on the deal, WElink Energy’s Chief Executive Barry O’Neill said: “We are delighted by this deal to develop one of the world’s largest green energy power plants in Portugal. WElink has a history of delivering solar farms throughout the world and this development we have added to our portfolio is our most significant to date. Solar generation is an advanced technology by renewables standards and is playing a significant part in helping Europe meet its climate change obligations – we are delighted to be helping in this endeavour.” The project is considered a milestone project for Portugal and followers on from the country’s renewables leadership which saw 57% of total consumption last year supplied completely by renewable energy. Economy Minister Manuel Caldeira Cabral remarked on the deal during the signing ceremony: “Consumers have in the past paid higher prices for the promotion of renewable energy, we do not want to stop the progress that renewable energy can have, but fortunately the technology has evolved and evolved in a way that solar energy can now be Competitive, paying the investment with unsubsidized tariff.” He added that “this is a large-scale investment….and is the biggest investment that this company (WElink), which already has solar panels in various parts of the world, is doing.” and “is the first of a series of investments that this company wants to carry out in Portugal.” Construction is to start before the end of Q1 this year and will create 200 construction jobs and support up to 600 at peak times. Once complete and into operation, 30 permanent operation and maintenance jobs will be created.
Monday 27th March 2017
When we consider solar, there are a couple of things we know for sure: 1) The job of a solar cell is to absorb as much sunlight as possible and then convert it into usable electrical power. 2) That light reflected is energy lost. The challenge has been,  what can be done to reduce the 4 percent of incident light - and the corresponding amount of energy- lost from a typical PV solar panel because of reflection? Thanks to the efforts of a research team at Loughborough University (G. Womack, P.M. Kaminski, A. Abbas, K. Isbilir, R. Gottschalg and J.M. Walls ) in the UK, one solution to the problem may be at hand.
Monday 27th March 2017
China has already once completely transformed the PV industry and maybe about to do so again. This is a major event for the conductive paste industry because the PV industry remains the primary volume market for firing-type pastes, generating a demand more than 1450 tpa in 2016. Any changes in this market will affect the entire industry, including the supplier business dynamics of all those nascent emerging markets that are apparently unrelated. In this article, IDTechEx briefly discuss major industry trends.
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Monday 20th March 2017
Patent-pending MOSH-8 material is suitable for LED substrates, solar panels, smartphone display covers, automobile windows, and watches
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