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| Aug 5, 2026 | Silicon Photovoltaics Make Power Generation in Space More Cost-Effective | The SOURCE MOD-0015-02, a space-qualified silicon solar module built with shingle-matrix cell interconnection. © Source Energy Company
Tests confirm that Source Energy's PV modules and arrays can be expected to deliver 76 percent of their o... |
| Jun 21, 2026 | Fraunhofer ISE Breaks Solar Module Efficiency Record at Intersolar Europe 2026 Show | By Kyle Belmonte
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| Jun 12, 2026 | Fraunhofer ISE raises III-V germanium module efficiency to 34.4% | |
| Apr 24, 2026 | The days of ugly solar panels could finally be over. Say hello to artsy colorful tiles! | Solar panels are great for the planet, but have long been a headache for architects, homeowners, and historic preservation boards. That tension between sustainability and aesthetics may finally have a real solution.
Researchers at the Fraun... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | German Startups Secure Major Funding, Drive Tech Consolidation | German startups attract major capital and witness significant consolidation. Munich's Agri-PV innovator feld.energy secures €10 million, led by HV Capital, to expand dual-use solar farming. Neumünster-based encentive lands €6.3 million for ... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Farm to fuse box: Germany’s feld.energy harvests over €10 million to double up farmland as solar fields | feld.energy, a Munich-based agricultural photovoltaics (Agri-PV) startup, has secured more than €10 million in Seed funding to scale its dual-use solar and farming systems across Germany.
The round was led by HV Capital, with backing from F... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Fraunhofer ISE, KAUST advance perovskite tandem cell passivation in ‘crucial step for industrialisation’ | |
| Sep 2, 2025 | Fraunhofer ISE to build pilot TOPCon cell line to support 4GW Talon PV US facility | |
| Jul 8, 2025 | Fraunhofer ISE: Germany could add at least 500GW of agrivoltaics capacity | |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Fraunhofer ISE and KAUST develop ‘hybrid’ method for perovskite-silicon cell production | |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Fraunhofer ISE unveils new HJT cell using ‘one-tenth’ of silver | |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Technology breakthrough could reduce space needed for solar panels | Hanwha’s Qcells said it has had made a breakthrough in an emerging solar technology that has the potential to reduce the amount of space required by panels that generate power from the sun’s rays.
Space is among the most pressing issues for... |
| Nov 22, 2024 | TERI and AIST to Jointly Hold 6th RD20 Conference in New Delhi, India | - International Conference on Clean Energy Technologies -
TOKYO, Nov. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the largest Indian public institute, the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), will hold an international conference, "The 6th RD20,... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Fraunhofer ISE study uncovers ‘critical degradation’ in TOPCon modules | |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Trinasolar sets a world record for the 27th time, with n-type i-TOPCon cell achieving 25.9% efficiency | CHANGZHOU, China, Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinasolar announced that its industrial larger-area 210 ×182 mm² n-type bifacial i-TOPCon cell has achieved an efficiency of 25.9%, setting a new record for large-area industrial TOPCon solar... |
| Sep 28, 2024 | Smoltek's Innovations: Pioneering the Future of Green Hydrogen and Capacitor Technology | In the world of technology, innovation is the lifeblood that fuels progress. Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB is a name that resonates with cutting-edge advancements in nanotechnology. Recently, the company has made headlines with two significan... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Fraunhofer ISE develops perovskite silicon solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 31.6% | |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Smoltek and SparkNano present a joint whitepaper and hold a webinar about the collaboration | Smoltek and SparkNano present a joint whitepaper and hold a webinar about the collaboration
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| Sep 23, 2024 | Fraunhofer ISE launches BIPV research collaboration | |
| Jun 21, 2024 | LONGi announces the new world record efficiency of 30.1% for the commercial M6 size wafer-level silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells | MUNICH, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The world-leading solar technology company, LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereafter as "LONGi"), officially announced the new world record efficiency of 30.1% for the commercial M6 ... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | LONGi announces the new world record efficiency of 30.1% for the commercial M6 size wafer-level silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells | MUNICH, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The world-leading solar technology company, LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereafter as "LONGi"), officially announced the new world record efficiency of 30.1% for the commercial M6 ... |
| Apr 22, 2024 | How regions can lead the transition to green energy under a ‘Future Made in Australia’ | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Right now, there’s a global race underway. The goal: bring back manufacturing and energy jobs as the energy transition speeds up.
In 2022, America launched its mammoth Inflation Reduction Act and the... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | An ag-tech revolution powered by the sun | The seeds of change are being sowed in the agriculture industry. Climate change impacts, the need to feed a growing global population, rising energy costs, international conflicts, and shifting government policies and subsidies, are necessi... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Smoltek founder Shafiq Kabir returns to the company to scale up production processes | Smoltek founder Shafiq Kabir returns to the company to scale up production processes
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| Sep 20, 2022 | Brainlab AG nominated for German Future Prize with high-precision radiation therapy for cancer | Stefan Vilsmeier and Claus Promberger from Brainlab, a leading provider in the field of digital medical technology, and Prof. Cordula Petersen from the UKE in Hamburg, have been nominated for the German Future Prize 2022 "Prize of the ... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Neil – a second grader from Minnesota – is concerned about solar panel recycling | Hi Neil,
Thank you for writing me a letter. I think it’s cool that kids in 2nd grade are thinking about solar panels. I didn’t think about solar panels until I was in the 12th grade.
I also like getting letters written to me by other people... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Solar+food in ethanol fields could fully power the United States | Ethanol emits more greenhouse gasses than the gasoline it is supposed to replace. Additionally, ethanol (corn) farms greatly under-utilize one of the greatest resources we have – land.
Of the ~92 million acres of corn planted in the US each... |
| Feb 20, 2022 | Researchers Develop PERC Solar Cells from Recycled Silicon | Harsh Shukla
Harsh Shukla is a staff reporter at Mercom India. Previously with Indian Express, he has covered general interest stories. He holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune.
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| Feb 9, 2022 | Are solar panels recyclable? | One of the great debates when it comes to solar panels is what happens at the end of their life cycle. While many solar panels will last over 20 years, there are still considerations to be made for what happens to them when they are no long... |
| Nov 29, 2021 | Your next package delivery could be solar powered | MiaSolé, Solar Cloths, and Renault have teamed up to release a “shatterproof” 300 watt solar panel to be attached to the wind deflector of Renault trucks. The solar panel’s purpose is to help the vehicle run electric items while the truck i... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Which crops pair well with solar? Illinois study aims to find out | The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the University of Illinois a $10 million grant for an agrivoltaics project called Sustainably Colocating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Syste... |
| May 12, 2021 | Growth Industry: Agrivoltaics gives new life to solar energy values such as harvest, yield and connection | Fraunhofer ISE research projects like this show how dual-use PV offers protection against hail, frost and drought damage.
Boston-based BlueWave Solar has always aimed higher. The certified B Corp. (a business designation that sets higher st... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Morning Brief: 5 GW of solar coming to Africa, the pressing need for panel recycling | 5 GW of solar may be coming to Botswana and Namibia, as the two countries are working with a U.S. government initiative, Power Africa, to help structure the deal. The two countries have massive solar potential, being flat geographically and... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Germany supports installation of solar panels on aquaculture farms in southern Vietnam | The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have signed an agreement with other partners to carry out a project that will install solar photovoltaics panels on aquacultur... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Why Europe and the US failed to capitalize on the benefits of thin-film solar | In light of thin-film solar’s very own “House of Cards” (i.e. Hanergy) and the recent troubles of those firms that are barely hanging on, a closer look at the checkered past of the thin-film solar industry is warranted.
Thin-film solar acco... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Cleantech VC failed before — and it risks failing again | There has been a chronic lack of successful venture investing in the energy sector. With few other paths for innovation, this has led to a near complete lack of meaningful progress towards any of our global climate goals.
This sector is pro... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Cleantech VC failed before — and it risks failing again | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There has been a chronic lack of successful ventu... |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Solar power’s great land use responsibility | As we build solar power, we’re told by both locals and the state of California to not mess up the environment. The climate hawks thank the renewable industry for its hard work at cleaning electricity, but remind us that transportation and l... |
| May 6, 2019 | 1100 GW new solar by 2035 in Inslee’s climate plan | Washington Governor Jay Inslee has called for “defeating climate change” by moving to 100% “clean, renewable and zero-emission” electricity by 2035—phrasing that suggests a very high percentage of renewables, if not 100% (the plan does not ... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | PV additions fall well below potential globally | Global PV installations increased only 1% last year to 94.3 GW, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency—a sharp drop from increases ranging from 29-48% from 2014 to 2017. U.S. additions were also lackluster, somewhere between... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Insolight gets ready for large-scale industrialization | |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Look, in the sky – is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s solar power! | Solar power’s development was greatly influenced by spaceflight, as solar power was the only practical source of long-term electricity in low-earth orbit. Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, stopped transmitting after three weeks when the... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | Agrovoltaics: a solar-powered safety net for Massachusetts farmers | They’re called solar farms for a reason – we deploy our seeds of steel, we water the ground with copper, and we pray to the sun gods for plentiful photons! Our previous coverage has noted the trend toward pollinator friendly solar farms, bu... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 13, 2015 | CrowdStrike landed $100M; Delphix raised $75M; Class Wallet closed $1.9M;
ClassWallet, a platform for school funds disbursement and tracking, closed a $1.9 million round of seed financing. Total funding raised to date is $2.53 million. Inve... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | NexWafe Launches with Seed Funding from Fraunhofer Venture | NexWafe, a Freiburg, Germany-based spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, launched with seed funding from Fraunhofer Venture.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by Founder and CEO Stefan Reber, and F... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Does solar energy have a bright future? | Does solar energy have a bright future?
27-02-2015
A new report says that solar energy is set to be the cheapest option in some parts of the world, says The Scientific Alliance.
The answer is definitely yes according to a new report from th... |
| Tesla whistleblower complaint about solar fires is part of evidence in federal safety investigation | The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is considering as evidence a former Tesla employee’s complaint about how the company managed and communicated about fire risks and defects in its solar installations.
It has also interviewe... |
| Clean energy generated 46% of Germany’s net public power in 2021 | Clean energy made up 46% of Germany’s net public power generation in 2021. That was down from 50% in 2020, according to Fraunhofer ISE, the largest solar energy research institute in Europe.
Solar PV generation was up 0.7 terawatt-hours (TW... |
| EGEB: Perovskite cells may revolutionize solar power, India release a new energy draft policy, Solar Exchange to power Moldavia | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Today on EGEB, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE made a breakthrough that may turn photovoltaic pro... |
| Electrek green energy brief: 67% of new electricity in US from clean sources, Fraunhofer’s new panel designs, Energy storage tax credit, more | A carbon tax is being presented to the US President by very powerful people – Remember, Exxon wants a carbon tax, and Exxon is now the USA’s Secretary of State. Elon Musk being on the President’s advisory board pushing this is definitely ha... |
| The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months – Dubai at $.0299/kWh! | Dubai received bid of $.0299/kWh for 800MW of solar power. This price represents the lowest yet recorded for solar power (and might not represent the end of the price drops…).
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has received 5 bids... |
| Electrek green energy brief: solar panel capacity up 10GW, Maryland votes for energy storage tax credit, more | Global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion plans rebound in Q1 – First quarter 2017 saw 10GW announced of solar power manufacturing capacity. With global capacity somewhere in the 115-135GW/year this is a big uptick – 7.5-8.5%. A few ... |
| Solar Power at Apple’s Union Square at 500% market price – what are they building? | Apple’s newest piece of retail art was revealed to shoppers in Union Square of San Francisco this month. As is Apple’s modus operandi these days they’re making sure to use clean energy to power the building. From the Apple press release, “T... |
| Electrek green energy brief: energy efficiency ‘Had a Good Run’, solar panels as the job killer, more | When solar panels became the jobs killer – A few solar people in my streams have pushed back on this article, its title and the lead in are a bit tough, but broadly it tells some good stories on the new growing-evolving-reacting-failing-att... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Florida utility writes anti-solar bill, major renewable energy powerlines, more | FPL wrote portions of bill that imposes requirements on solar – Florida voters chose to lower taxes on certain solar installations within the state. The State of Florida legislature then took up the task given to them by the voters – and th... |
| JinkoSolar and Fraunhofer ISE break solar efficiency records for everyday solar panels | Solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar has broken the record for solar cell efficiency for the most commonly used type of solar cells – 22.04% for a P-type multicrystalline product. Near concurrently, solar research facility Fraunhofer ISE has... |
