If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

Montreal-based researchers developed a plan to embed solar panels into sidewalks to power electric vehicles that deliver food. This "green city" innovation would free up traditionally solar-powered ...

High flux solar simulators serve as indispensable tools in replicating the intensity, spectral distribution and angular characteristics of natural sunlight within controlled laboratory settings. Their ...

PV Tech Premium speaks with Professor Bram Hoex and Dr Fiacre Rougieux from UNSW’s School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. Image: Agata Bogucka, NREL New research from the University ...

Testing conducted by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany has shown that perovskite solar cells operating at high latitudes in Europe may suffer from higher performance losses in winter ...

A research team in Iran has designed a four-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with a 19.3%-efficient bottom heterojunction cell and a 12.7%-efficient perovskite top cell. Both subcells ...

Vision of future solar cell fabrication on the Moon, utilizing raw regolith. Shown are robots that source raw regolith and bring it to a production facility, which fabricates perovskite-based moon ...

Solar panel efficiency affects how much electricity your system can generate from the roof space available – here’s what that ...