Conditions within the energy industry have changed significantly in recent years. The increased cost of natural gas have made this an expensive source of power, while concern about global warming and the introduction of limits on CO2 emissions will have a profound effect on the use of coal in power generation at least in the [...]
The energy from sunlight falling on only 9% of California’s Mojave Desert could supply the electricity needs of the United States if the energy is efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, the current generation of solar cell technology is too expensive and inefficient for business applications on a wide scale. According to Eurekalert, the [...]
The computer chips manufacturing Corporation Intel announced an investment of $ 50 million in solar power through its Intel Capital division, forming a new company. The new trading company, Spectra Watt Inc. will manufacture solar cells for distribution to manufacturers of solar panels. Other investors in the company include Cogentrix Energy (a branch of Goldman [...]
The new style of solar energy is thin and thin is in because it is inexpensive. Solar producers measure their costs in terms of dollars per watt of energy produced, a formula is a combination of the cost of producing a module and its energy efficiency. At this moment the best crystalline silicon modules can [...]
The thin film solar is one of the fastest growing areas in the market for solar panels. This has much to do with the cost of thin photovoltaic film. The film is cheaper than traditional silicon solar panels. There are many reasons for this. One is that the thin film solar cells use less material [...]
FTL announcement last week that, thanks to Terra Firma Capital Group, Josh Mailman Foundation, and private investors, now have the dollars needed to develop flexible solar cells, including his vision for creating PowerMods – structures covered in flexible solar cells that can be used in places where the solar panels do not normally work, such [...]
Restricting large subsidies, providing solar energy to the masses – from home to their cell phones – requires a greater fall in the cost of technology. Last week, a group of researchers in Australia and China announced they had moved towards the “holy grail of cost-effectiveness of solar energy.” According to Professor Max Lu, University [...]
The Queensland University of Technology recently announced that it has been working with Dyesol to develop an innovative solar cell technology to re-display the windows as providers of clean energy. Professor John Bell said that these cells impregnated dye significantly reduce the cost of energy in buildings, and even could generate extra energy to be [...]