Tamarac, Fla. — Arch Aluminum & Glass Co., Inc. has developed new solar mirror manufacturing techniques that deliver lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units to the renewable ...

A set of peer-reviewed studies and federally funded research projects have shown that solar cells can double as curved mirrors, generating electricity and high-temperature heat from a single piece of ...

The University of South Australia (UniSA) has joined forces with Queensland-based company Impacts Renewable Energy and Charles Sturt University (CSU) to build a concentrated solar thermal (CST) plant ...

A new database contains the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more than four decades. The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain ...

Silicon panels pretty much rule the solar energy sector, with more than 90% of panels manufactured using the versatile element. This is not by chance; Si PV cells are cheap, robust, relatively easy to ...

The Department of Energy is investing $33 million into nine projects, including an effort to use “concentrating solar thermal” tech to produce steam for a brewery. The US is continuing its ...

Since its invention in the 1970s, the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) has aimed to enhance solar energy capture by using luminescent materials to convert and concentrate sunlight onto ...

A massive solar tower in the Moroccan desert is the beacon of an ambitious push for a clean energy future. But fossil fuels ...

Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have investigated how free-space luminescent solar concentrators (FSLSCs) could be used to enhance bifacial PV module performance in vertical ...