Featured in Trade barriers spoil solar's party – 09-2019

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Technological breakthroughs have come thick and fast to the solar and energy storage space in recent years, allowing both sectors to claim an increasing share of the world’s energy infrastructure. As PV pins its hopes on further innovations to push further into the mix, some new technologies will make the leap from laboratory to production and inform the industry’s future, while others will falter or fall along the wayside.

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Mark Hutchins

16 Sep 2019

Image: Dennis Schroeder/ NREL

More power, lower costs, longer lifetimes – from nanoscopic tweaks to a solar cell’s surface, to whole new system layouts incorporating PV with heating, water production and other sectors, it is technology that will keep solar moving forward.Certain new technologies already create plenty of buzz, with phrases like “next generation” or “paradigm changing” thrown around …

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