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Improved III-V Solar Cells

17.03.2024

Aenert. Research Laboratory newsIn the PV industry, innovative manufacturing processes, new materials, solar cells, and modules designs are constantly being developed to increase the device performance and lower the final energy cost. One such innovative technology claiming an ever growing share of the solar panel market is heterojunction solar cells. Heterojunction solar cells (HJT), variously...

Using Semiconductors to Improve Solid-State Batteries

13.03.2024

Aenert. Research Laboratory newsNowadays many major players as well as start-ups are actively involved in the electric vehicles industry and racing to develop safer and more efficient batteries. One type of battery which has received increased attention lately is solid-state batteries. Other than lithium-ion batteries, they use a solid electrolyte, which allows for leaving out a separator...

US shale gas and tight oil production: 2023 Q4

10.03.2024

Aenert news. Energy CompaniesThe development and subsequent industrial development of shale gas and tight oil production technologies, which was carried out at the beginning of this century in the USA, made significant changes to the oil and gas balance at the global level. Today, of the approximately 13 million Barrels per Day of oil produced in the United States, more than 60% is tight oil....

EU international trade in goods: Imports of energy products from Russia has significantly decreased

07.03.2024

Aenert news. Energy Market & Energy StatisticsA snapshot of the European Union (EU) international trade in goods from 2019, based on quarterly data, is presented in an article by Eurostat. The types of goods traded outside the EU are analysed with a focus on five main partners: China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Russia. In the last quarter of 2023, imports decreased by 1.6 %...

Electricity price statistics in the EU: the Netherlands has the highest electricity prices

04.03.2024

Aenert news. Energy Market & Energy StatisticsThe Eurostat has published data on electricity prices in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022 in the European Union (EU) and a number of other countries such as Iceland, Norway, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Georgia and Ukraine, etc. In general, compared to the first half of 2022, household electricity prices increased in the first half...

Events calendar. March 2024

01.03.2024

Aenert news. Energy Exhibitions & ConferencesAt the beginning of the second ten days of March, the 10th anniversary International LNG Congress will be held in Milan. This is the most important event in Europe for those involved in the transportation and storage of natural gas. The congress will bring together 380 delegates from 55 countries, making decisions along the entire value chain. The Congress is an...

Suncor Energy Inc., Imperial Oil Limited, Сenovus Energy Inc. 2024Q4 Production activity results

25.02.2024

Aenert news. Energy CompaniesCanadian oil industry and the financial position of the most significant companies are of practical interest as one of the indicators of the state of the world oil market. Canada has huge oil reserves, most of which are hard-to-recover oil sands. The extraction and subsequent processing of this oil requires additional technological and financial costs. Simple...

Silicon-based Multijunction Solar Cell Reaches Record Efficiency of 36.1 Percent

22.02.2024

Aenert. Research Laboratory newsSolar cells and solar panels are commonly used to harness the energy of the sun and convert it to electricity in an environmentally-friendly manner. However, despite their widespread application their photovoltaic energy conversion efficiency is more or less limited to 29.4 percent. To somewhat improve this limitation, they can be coated with additional materials to...

Solar cell efficiency 2023

19.02.2024

Aenert news. Technological innovationsIncreasing the efficiency of solar cells is one of the most pressing problems in solar energy. Despite the rapid development of renewable energy, it can still provide only about half of new energy needs on a global scale. The low efficiency of wind turbines and solar panels does not allow achieving a power utilization factor comparable to that of fossil fuel energy...

LOHC – Hydrogen quality. Recent patent review

16.02.2024

Aenert news. Invention analysisEarlier, in a set of articles related to Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC) technology we delved into such aspects of the technology as heterocyclic LOHC compounds (29.09.2023, 08.09.2023), hydrogenation and dehydrogenation (17.10.2023, 30.10.2023), LOHC catalysts in general and noble metal catalysts specifically (20.11.2023, 22.12.2023), and dealing with...