Aenert news. Energy CompaniesThe second quarter of each year is a good time for solar power, when generation in the most populated northern hemisphere increases sharply after short, cloudy winter days. According to our calculations from the Ember analytical center database, global electricity demand in 2024Q2 was approximately 7,095 TWh, which is 4.5% more than in the same period last year. The...
Aenert news. Energy CompaniesSolar energy is increasingly taking a leading position in new electricity generation. For example, it is expected that in the United States, 60% of newly built electricity production capacity in 2024 will be provided by solar installations. By the end of the last year, global PV solar capacity reached nearly 1.5 TW. Over the last decade, cumulative global capacity...
Aenert news. Energy Market & Energy StatisticsAccording to the recently published Renewable Capacity Statistics 2024 Report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a new world record for renewable energy in the electricity sector was set in 2023 – with the addition of 473 gigawatts (GW) of renewables (+13.9%) their total global capacity reached about 3,870 GW. For several years in a row, Asia has...
Aenert news. Energy CompaniesThe end of 2023 was marked by an unpleasant surprise for the photovoltaics industry, although the prerequisites for this had existed before. After the relative prosperity of the previous few years, a financial storm struck in 2023Q4, sending many companies into crisis. Something similar has happened in the last two years in the wind energy industry, which we have...
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...
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...
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...
Aenert news. Energy CompaniesSolar photovoltaics today represents the most dynamically developing area of renewable energy. In several countries of the world, including, for example, Chile, Australia, Hungary, Spain, the level of solar electricity generation exceeds 10% of its total volume. No one is surprised by solar photovoltaic stations with a capacity of more than one GW. At the same time,...
Aenert news. Energy TrendsPhotovoltaics is one of the most dynamically developing sectors of renewable energy. In 2022, the total installed photovoltaic capacity significantly exceeded 1000 GW. A year earlier, the share of solar photovoltaics in global electricity generation from all sources reached 3.8%. Ten years ago this was hard to believe, since at that time this share did not exceed...
Aenert. Research Laboratory newsOne of the most powerful sources of energy is the sun. Its rays can be captured and converted to create electricity or power processes to produce fuels which offer an alternative to hydrocarbon-derived fuels. One such fuel which can be harnessed with the help of sunlight is hydrogen. To do so, photoelectrochemical methods are often employed. Currently, photo...
