Conductive Plastic Could Lower Solar Panel Costs

As the world heads towards the imminent energy crisis and heightened pollution, solar panels are gaining popularity as the best alternative and sustainable source of energy. But the costs associated with large solar panel installations have been quite prohibitive so far, making it harder for the masses to deploy their own solar energy solutions. Various researches are currently underway to reduce the cost of the average solar panel without sacrificing the conversion efficiency. But it might turn out that a non-solar panel related research holds the key to this problem.

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7 Solar Technologies Find A Test Site Set Up By Chevron — Project Brightfield

Chevron, the second largest oil company in the US, has initiated what it calls Project Brightfield. It is a testing site for solar technologies located in Bakersfield, California, that has about 7,700 solar panels. It is going to be used for testing out seven different technologies that are related to making electricity from the sun.

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Moser Baer’s Photo Voltaic Business Reports 7.3% Efficiency Boost In Solar Panel

Indian company Moser Baer’s Photo Voltaic sub-concern reported recently that they have been able to achieve a 7.3% efficiency on their 400W thin film large size modules. This new improvement, once applied to all panels in the company’s Greater Noida (New Delhi, India) Solar Plant, will increase the plants output to 50MW from about 40MW.

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A New Tiny And Self-Contained Solar Cell Is Only 9 Cubic Millimeters In Size!

There’s been some interesting things going on at the University of Michigan when it comes to solar cells. In my previous posts, I have talked about newer advances in Solar cells but this one is so visibly advanced that it is extremely impressive to look at.

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Hairy, Plasticky Solar Cells Break All Light Absorption Records At 96%

The magic workers at CalTech (California Institute of Technology) have done it again. They have created solar cells that cheap to create, are flexible and absorb a record amount of the incidental sunlight. The last part is actually especially big because it absorbs not a measly few percentages like current solar cells but a whopping 96% . . . → Read More: Hairy, Plasticky Solar Cells Break All Light Absorption Records At 96%