India’s Reliance Industries presents scaled-up solar, battery ambitions
Reliance Industries says that production will begin at its 10 GW factory for solar cells and modules by 2024. It plans to double the facility’s capacity to 20 GW by 2026 and is aiming for 50 GWh of annual cell-to-pack battery capacity by 2027.
Lab-made perovskite solar panel loses 25% of efficiency over 9-month period
Researchers have studied a perovskite solar panel array with little generation loss due to high temperatures, and better performance than expected.
Predicting solar power output with limited data sizes
Researchers in Greece have developed three different transfer-learning strategies for solar power forecasting. The techniques are based on a stacked long short-term memory model, which is a kind of recurrent neural network that can learn order dependence in sequence prediction problems.
Airbus solar airplane crashes after 64 days of flying
The 25-meter-wide Airbus solar drone, which is remotely controlled by satellite, is entirely covered with PV modules.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Polysilicon price reaches new high at $45.4/kg, government takes action
Average polysilicon prices hit CNY 312 ($45.47)/kg this week, according to an industry association in China. The nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the National Energy Administration have also asked regional authorities to take action to deal with the price increase.
Trina Solar achieves 24.24% efficiency for 210 mm n-type TOPCon solar cell
Trina Solar said TÜV Nord in Germany has confirmed the efficiency rating of its latest solar cell.
Belgian manufacturer unveils 400 W black glass-glass heterojunction solar module for residential applications
The new product features a power conversion efficiency of 22.0% and a temperature coefficient of -0.25% per C.
Perovskite solar cell with 23.93% efficiency via new moisture treatment
Scientists from China developed a controllable moisture treatment for perovskite films that is reportedly able to promote the mass transportation of organic salts. The films were used to build a 0.2 cm2 perovskite solar cell that was able to retain 80% of its initial efficiency after 1200 h.
NHPC, BEL want to set up polysilicon-to-solar module gigafab in India
State-owned NHPC and Bharat Electronics Ltd will leverage their complementary strengths to set up a gigawatt-scale vertically integrated solar manufacturing unit.
German state supports balcony solar power generation via rebate program
The government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has allocated €10 million ($9.93 million) to support the deployment of balcony solar modules with a power output of up to 600 W.
