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US Funding For Solar Hardware Manufacturing Innovation

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, bipv, brektria 500, brightsource energy, clean power, concentrating solar power, consumer technology, Department of Energy (DOE), doe solar energy technologies office, element 16 technologies, Energy Storage, fresnel csp, fresnel lens, grid, hyperlight, machine learning, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, policy & politics, pvpallet, re2, research, SCIENCE, silicon valley materials technology corp, sinton instruments, solar cells, Solar energy, solar facades, solar panels, solar power plants, solar thermal, solar windows, storedgeai, string inverter, subsidies, sunpower, terabase energy, toledo solar, yaskawa solectria solar

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:18:18 +0000

This third round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns innovations in manufacturing for solar hardware

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US Government Puts $130 Million More Into Solar Tech

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments arizona state university, bifacial solar cells, bifacial solar modules, cdte solar cells, cdte solar modules, clean energy states alliance, clean power, clemson university, college park, concentrating solar power, consumer technology, customer options landscape: opportunities for co-adoption and technology evolution of distributed energy resources (co-located), Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, doe solar energy technologies office, electric power research institute, georgia institute of technology, grid, hydrogen, integrated thermal energy storage and brayton cycle equipment demonstration (integrated testbed), microgrids, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, perc solar cells, perc solar modules, perovskite solar cells, perovskite solar modules, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, solar cells, Solar energy, solar module durability, solar module reliability, solar panel durability, solar panel reliability, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, solar thermal, subsidies, thin film solar, tool for reliability assessment of critical electronics in pv (trace-pv), university of central florida, university of delaware, university of maryland, university of washington

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:34:46 +0000

Continuing a decades-long trend, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has put a few million dollars into further research and development of solar power technologies — $130 million, to be precise

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Trapping Light Inside Solar Cells Can Boost Solar Panel Output By 125%

October 30, 2020 admin checkerboard solar cells, flexible solar panels, silicon solar cell, solar cells, university of york

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:59:20 +0000

Researchers at the University of York say they have found a way to make solar cells that increase output by 125%, opening the door to cheaper and more flexible solar panels.

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Tesla’s One Core Advantage

October 28, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla factories, tesla full self-driving, tesla software

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:18:54 +0000

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s a maxim that I imagine could get you fired from Tesla. Tesla is obsessively focused on “fixing” what is working fine but not working as well as it could be. Tesla is obsessively trying to take products and systems apart, whittle them down to their core

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Sorry, Coal: 66% Conversion Efficiency Eyeballed For Next-Gen “Hot Carrler” Perovskite Solar Cells

October 22, 2020 admin bluedot photonics, clean power, DOE, energy materials corporation, first solar, hunt perovskites technologies, nrel, ornl, perovskites, research, solar cells, Solar energy, swift solar, tandem pv, university of north carolina, university of tennessee, university of toledo, university of washington

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:14:30 +0000

The US is going all-in on a plan to dominate the global PV market with next-gen perovskite solar cells that can beat fossil fuels to a pulp

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Tesla As 17 Different Companies

October 2, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, grid, grid storage, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, rooftop solar, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla batteries, tesla chargers, tesla charging, tesla energy, tesla infotainment, tesla network, tesla semi, tesla software, tesla solar, tesla superchargers, tesla supercharging, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:38:44 +0000

Covering a couple of Elon Musk tweets, I recently wrote an article titled “Tesla = Approximately A Dozen Startups.” The company is involved in several different hardcore tech efforts as well as broader business like insurance and seat production

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What’s The Secret Sauce Behind New “Forever” Solar Panels?

September 18, 2020 admin arizona state university, charlie gay, clean power, DOE, Electricity, Made in America, Oregon, rec solar, renewable energy, soft costs, solar cells, Solar energy, solar energy research center konstanz, solar panels, sunflex solar, United States, US, violet power, Washington

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:52:00 +0000

Is this thin sheet of aluminum foil the secret sauce behind new low-cost “forever” solar panels from the US startup Violet Power

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Wasatch Energy Group & Sonnen Launch Landmark New Virtual Power Plant Projects in Apartment Complexes in California

August 30, 2020 admin California, clean power, ecolinx, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, press releases, solar cells, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, sonnen ecolinx, sonnen ecolinx 30, US, virtual power plants, wasatch energy group

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:00:18 +0000

Wasatch Energy Group and sonnen announce 3,000 home clean energy virtual power plant fleet, delivering over 60MWh of resiliency to California households