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JinkoSolar and Trina Solar have separately reported that on-field testing shows tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar modules outperform p-type back-contact PV modules in monthly power generation. October 21, 2024 Emiliano…

The Australian government will in November open applications for a $50 million funding program that is to support the development of more diverse solar PV, hydrogen electrolyser and battery supply chains in the Indo-Pacific region.…

Researchers have covered part of a rooftop solar plant with varying numbers of shading cloth layers and continued to measure the power, current, and voltage of the system. They have been able to identify a point after which the value of…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) could once again become an economically attractive and high-efficient PV technology for regions with high direct…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Outcomes from the Rutgers Research Program will be used to inform the establishment of the Dual-Use Solar Energy Pilot Program that will be…

Scientists in China have tested the influence of panel row spacing in increasing a PV system performance in a full-scale outdoor PV array experimental platform. They found that larger row spacing plays a limited role in improving thermal…

From pv magazine print edition 5/24World records for perovskite solar cells have a short shelf life. Until April 2022, a silicon-perovskite tandem cell from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), a German research organisation, led with an…

Western Australian regional energy provider Horizon Power will trial two novel long-duration energy storage technologies – including a zinc-bromine flow battery provided by Queensland manufacturer Redflow – as it seeks to identify new…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! There’s so much cleantech news and analysis out there. It always blows my mind when I try to come up with a weekly roundup of the top stories and then…

Solar fences are beginning to gain traction in European and North American markets and now data provided by energy software service provider Gridcog suggests that vertical bifacial solar could be technically and economically viable in…