Best Articles on Solar Power

It’s big news for everybody that solar cells can be created from agriculture wastes such as cut grass and dead leaves, which have been proved by Andreas Mershin, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As a result of strong government support for budding domestic PV clean energy and growing green awareness, Europe has emerged as a centre of attraction for all solar product manufacturers across the world.

With increasing interference of Chinese Solar Manufacturers, the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) has issued an evaluation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

With a massive development going in the field of solar power production, it’s great news that IKEA has planned to install the solar energy system on top of its Cincinnati-area.

The innovative design for a CSP ( Concentrated Solar Plant) promises an interesting turn that might result in lesser use of land for solar power while also increasing its efficiency.

On 17th of January 2012, the First Solar Inc. announced that it has set a new world record by using cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic solar module, which has achieved the record breaking 14.4% total area efficiency.

A professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, Xiaoyang Zhu, and his team has successfully discovered a method to increase the efficiency of conventional solar cells.

Researchers at MIT and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have devised a nature inspired design that occupies a much smaller area but at the same time captures more sunlight than the current CSP plants.

SolarKindle solar panel cover integrated with the Kindle weighs just 215 grams, is flexible and able to charge even in indirect sunlight.