Solar manufacturers are facing rising cost pressure as silver paste now accounts for up to 30% of total cell production costs. OPIS analyst Hanwei Wu tells <b>pv magazine</b> that module producers cu...

Trust in climate communicators is a critical determinant of whether the public accepts and acts upon climate change information. Yet most research to …

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

This work shows that climate change is projected to unevenly intensify extreme low-production events in solar and wind power systems worldwide, highlighting the need for mitigation and adaptation to e...

The first Nature Index table on the field shows how research in the East is focused on industrial strategy.

The Chinese manufacturer said the tandem device was developed through a dual-buffer layer strategy that improves interfacial adhesion while preserving efficient charge extraction. The efficiency resul...

In a new scientific paper, the Chinese solar manufacturer explained that the 27.81%-efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell it unveiled in April is based on passivated tunneling contacts and...

Scientific Reports - Transfer learning for solar irradiation prediction in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Radiative cooling offers a zero-energy pathway to meet global cooling demands. However, its deployment is critically hampered by performance degradati…

The proposed shift-factor equation couples the independent variations of PV module's output voltage with respect to irradiance and module temperature. From the coupled voltage distribution, one can e...

Researchers in United Arab Emirates have developed a novel model that relies on either the open-circuit voltage or the maximum power point voltage to estimate PV module operating temperature without u...

Abstract. In wind energy research, scientific challenges are often associated with complex terrain sites, where orography, vegetation, and buildings disrupt flow uniformity. However, even sites charac...

The evaluation of degradation caused by dust accumulation on photovoltaic (PV) systems is critical to ensuring optimal energy exploitation in the Sahe…

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

The Shockley–Queisser (S-Q) model sets a theoretical limit on the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction solar cells at around 33%. Recently, a PCE of 50%-60% was achieved for the first time in n-type single-junction Si solar cells by inhibiting light conversion to heat at low temperatures. Understanding these new observations opens tremendous opportunities for designing solar cells with even higher PCE to provide efficient and powerful energy sources for cryogenic devices and outer and deep space explorations.