Tiltable Hybrid (Heat+Electricity) Solar Panels Commercialized by Naked Energy

A solar panel installation that can also deliver heat besides electricity has been developed and now is being commercialized by Naked Energy, a Guilford,...

Natcore’s New Black Silicon Solar Cells Working Efficiently Regardless of Weather

Imagine we could also harvest solar power while it's cloudy outside, and those clouds won't make much of a difference. That could be possible...

John Mankins’ Space-Based Solar Power Array Closer to Reality

A project involving satellites, solar panels and microwave power transmitters is in works in Santa Maria, CA, where John Mankins, from Artemis Innovation Management...

Halotechnics’ Molten Glass Energy Storage Leading to Cheaper Electricity

To make people embrace solar and give up fossil fuels means solar has to be cheap. How cheap? According to the U.S. Department of...

Student-Built Reactor Produces Hydrogen From Sunlight, Zinc Oxide and Water

A new way to have sunlight produce hydrogen has been perfected in a University of Delaware lab. The inventor, Erik Koepf, has designed a...

New 1.9µm Solar Cell Thinner Than Spider Silk, Can Be Bent Around Human Hair

A solar cell thinner than spider silk has been unveiled today by a team of Austrian and Japanese researchers. The ultra-thin solar cell has...

China Envisions 3 GW of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power by 2020

For China, solar and thermal power are a apparently a killer combination. Together, they form what is called Concentrated Solar Power and that has...

Solar Impulse, World’s First Solar Powered Airplane Preparing for 48h Trip to Morocco

Solar Impulse, the world's lightest electric plane, powered entirely by solar panels, will take off this spring and head for Morocco, where it will...

EPFL’s Solar-Powered MicroThrust Ionic Motor Goes to Moon and Back With 3.38oz of Fuel

A new technology developed by scientists at the EPFL in Switzerland (where organic solar cells were invented) that allows for a 1 small satellite...

Solar3D Claims New Solar Cells 200% More Efficient Than Standard Ones

Solar3D, a company saying it will revolutionize solar power, has just published a thorough simulation analysis of its new 3D solar cells. They're saying...