Best Articles on Solar Power

The UC has entered a 25-year power purchase agreement for the full power output, with project developer Centaurus Renewable Energy. This Five Points Solar Farm has 271,200 solar panels, covering approximately three-quarters of a square mile of fallow farmland.

The solar power tree is actually an arrangement of solar panels which resembles a tree. It has a stem and trunks made up of steel which holds the photovoltaic panels. The branches hold up the 30 photovoltaic panels and the system costs around Rs. 5 lakh (USD 7500) with battery back-up.

The invention of solar cell that cheaply and very efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight energy is a big technological breakthrough.

Singapore Scientists claim to have found a new, cheaper and easier way to manufacture solar cells – Perovskite solar cell. Perovskite is a calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate.

Three UK research organisations have teamed up to develop sodium-ions cells with considerably lower-cost as compared to current lithium-ions cells for storing solar power.

The researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the ETH Zurich have discovered a chemical process which makes the use of sun’s thermal energy to convert carbon dioxide and water directly into high-energy fuels

A sports car named “Hanergy Solar R” was launched by Hanergy Holding Group in Beijing at a grand ceremony themed “Disruptive Innovations Drive the Future” outside its headquarters in Beijing on July 2, 2016. Hanergy Holding Group is one of the world’s leading thin-film solar power company.

The team of scientists at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea has achieved a breakthrough in the solar cell technology. They successfully developed solar cells so thin enough that, they can be bent around an average writing pencil.

As the cost of production lowers to less than that of natural gas and coal-fired plants, solar power is looking at some big growth in the future. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IREA) solar energy is expected to grow sixfold by 2030.