Today, inventing enhanced or new sources of energy has become one of the most important tasks of modern engineering science. In this endeavour, particular focus is being placed on developing more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells as they are cheaper and easier to produce than current commercial silicon-based solar...
EMBER's seventh annual European Electricity Review 2023 (CC BY-SA 4.0) analyzes the EU-27's progress in the transition from fossil fuels to clean power, providing data on electricity generation and demand in 2022 and making a forecast for 2023. In general, EМBER records an acceleration of the electricity transition in 2022,...
Various options of energy storage are described in patented solutions in the field of solar energy. They include such technologies as those using latent heat, molten materials, compressed air, and chemical reactions. In the pool of collected patent documents on solar energy storage, technical solutions disclosing the use of...
In continuation of the previous article dated 08.09.2022, dedicated to patent analysis of inventions related to the floating solar panels with tracking system, below we provide a brief analysis of inventions related to single-axis trackers for your consideration. Almost 1800 patent documents published in the twenty-year...
Among the manifold ways to generate electricity from renewable sources, solar PV modules are believed to be one of the most efficient. Especially heterojunction solar cells have a low carbon footprint because of the sparing use of silicon in them and high efficiency levels in industrial production. During the production of...
The sun is an abundant source of energy. The sunlight which hits the earth in the course of a day is enough to cover the world’s energy consumption for a very long time. This energy can be harnessed using photovoltaic (PV) panels or through mirrors that concentrate solar radiation and used to generate electricity or be stored...
Presently, the global market for floating solar panels is estimated to be a few dozens of millions of US dollars. At the same time, only 10-15% of floating stations are equipped with active solar tracking systems. Nevertheless, many experts expect a significant growth in this segment of market in the next decade, predominantly...
Halide perovskites are generally regarded as materials which have high performance potential while reducing production costs. The name is derived from the mineral calcium titanium oxide CaTiO 3 (XIIA2+VIB4+X2−3) and is also used for the class of compounds which have the same crystal structure, called the perovskite structure....
The idea to use sunlight for energy production is not new. The first modern solar cell was invented in 1954 at Bell Laboratories, an American industrial research and scientific development company now owned by Finnish company Nokia. Sunrays hitting the surface of a photovoltaic (PV) cell can be reflected, absorbed or pass...
One of the options to substantially increase the efficiency of solar technologies is the implementation of trackers, devices that follow the solar position and correspondingly orient photovoltaic panels or mirror reflectors. There is a multi-level classification of trackers based on their functional capabilities. First of all,...
