Trinasolar Evergreen unveils BIPV products for industrial, public use
Trinasolar Evergreen (Shanghai) PV Tech. Co., Ltd., a building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) unit of Trina Solar, has launched four new products for public, industrial, and infrastructure projects. Trina Solar aims to capture a share of the fast-growing BIPV market.
New kesterite solar cell design promises 29.37% efficiency
Researchers in China and Malaysia simulated a new structure for copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS) cells featuring a tungsten oxide buffer layer and a back surface field kesterite layer. A device simulated with this configuration achieved an open circuit voltage of 1.2 V and a fill factor of 83.37%.
The Hydrogen Stream: Statkraft advances green H2 plans in Germany
Statkraft says it is progressing with its 200 MW electrolysis plant in Germany, while Neste says it will not invest in its 120 MW electrolyzer project in Finland.
Chinese PV Industry Brief: Arctech reveals plans to raise $150 million
Arctech Solar says it plans to raise up to CNY 1.1 billion ($150 million) to expand its manufacturing capacity, while China Power Construction has opened bids for 1,500 MWp of n-type heterojunction PV modules.
Trina Solar supplies more than 1 GW of panels for project in China
Trina Solar says it has supplied more than 1 GW of Vertex N 720W series panels for the Jinsha River project in China, with installation expected by year-end. The project aims to generate about 5.1 TWh of power per year.
Researchers in Australia and China develop technology to recover lithium from saltwater
Researchers from the Monash Suzhou Research Institute and the University of Queensland have developed a nanofiltration technology to extract lithium from low-grade saltwater brines with high magnesium content. The technology achieves 90% lithium recovery, nearly double the performance of traditional methods, while dramatically reducing extraction times.
Longi Green Energy sets world record for solar module efficiency at 25.4%
China’s Longi Green Energy has set a new world record for crystalline silicon solar module efficiency with its independently developed hybrid passivated back contact (HPBC) 2.0 module, achieving a conversion efficiency of 25.4%, according to a certification report from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE).
Megha Engineering signs 618.1 MW solar PPA in India
Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. says it will develop 76 solar power plants of various capacities under the PM-KUSUM C initiative in RESCO mode.
New model to assess performance of building-integrated photovoltaics based on PCM
Researchers in China have analyzed the effect of phase change material on BIPV, and created an artificial neural network to forecast its effect on system temperature. The proposed approach reportedly achieved superior predictive performance compared to earlier methods.
Multiple designs of photovoltaic-thermal collectors
Scientists have modeled eight different kinds of PVT systems, some with a glass covers and some without. They found the worst efficiency was achieved in uncovered systems with parallel round tubes.
