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Fast fashion brands drop new collections as often as every two weeks, illustrating the fast cycle of manufacturing, buying and disposing which drives the fashion industry’s wastefulness and polluting impact. In fact, it is estimated that more than half of the fast fashion produced is disposed of in under a year. But it appears that […]
How can advanced energy technologies save Californians from reliving the fustercluck of the Public Safety Power Shutoffs of 2019? This was the (paraphrased) central question of the California Energy Commission’s energy resilience forum in Long Beach this week. The tone was both realistic and aspirational. The California Energy Commission (CEC) understands the urgency of the situation […]
Clean Power Published on February 28th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley February 28th, 2020 by Steve Hanley There is news about Gigafactory 2 — Tesla’s solar factory near Buffalo, New York. First, Tesla has informed the Empire State Development Corporation, which owns the factory building and much of the equipment inside, that it has met […]
Two-hundred and fifteen of the world’s largest companies value the climate risks to their businesses at $1 trillion, and almost all of them report that they integrate climate risk into their business strategies. Sarah Tuneberg co-founded the startup Geospiza to transform the way such businesses make decisions in the face of climate risk. A national […]
Fraunhofer ISE researchers have integrated stress and temperature sensors within a PV module. They claim that the devices cover a very minimal part of the cells, and that their interaction with the module and the cell itself is quite limited. The sensors can be manufactured as part of a regular cell manufacturing process. February 28, […]
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) have developed a technique to sequester the lead used to make perovskite solar cells, a highly efficient emerging photovoltaic technology. The light-absorbing layer in a perovskite solar cell contains a minute amount of lead. The presence of this toxic material in the […]
Solar energy that reaches the Earth is about 125 million gigawatt (Gw). When this solar energy generated for a year is converted into oil, it is 100 trillion ton which is ten thousand times more than the amount of oil energy the world uses in a year. So, it is no surprising when one of […]
Scientists from Hasselt University, imec, VITO, EnergyVille and international partners within the PERCISTAND consortium have become the first to achieve an energy efficiency of 25 percent with a thin-film solar cell. This means that this wafer-thin solar cell generates as much energy as a traditional silicon solar cell. ‘In addition, our solar cells are thin […]
A new type of battery combines negative capacitance and negative resistance within the same cell, allowing the cell to self-charge without losing energy, which has important implications for long-term storage and improved output power for batteries. These batteries can be used in extremely low-frequency communications and in devices such as blinking lights, electronic beepers, voltage-controlled […]
Trina Solar has formally unveiled its latest Duomax V bifacial double-glass modules and Tallmax V back sheet modules. Based on the 210mm large-size silicon wafer and monocrystalline PERC cell, the new modules come replete with several innovative design features allowing high power output of more than 500Wp and module efficiency up to 21%, consolidating the […]
