Solar power has an efficiency problem. When the electrons move from the solar panel to the battery that stores them, about 20 percent of the energy is lost. But now, thanks to new type of solar cell, ...

Researchers have developed a new type of back-contact solar cell design that will enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing as it uses a perovskite material and tiny grooves embossed into plastic film.

Scientists have discovered that they can coax a tobacco plant into growing temporary solar cells by injecting it with a genetically engineered virus. Freaky, but the process may provide us with ...

Perovskite might be our best chance at cheap, efficient solar panels in the near future, and now scientists have figured out how to essentially spray paint solar cells with it. Share on Facebook ...

An ariel view of solar panels at Sao Mai solar energy plant in An Giang province of Vietnam. The country will be one target of tariffs by the U.S. meant to discourage dumping of cheap solar cells on ...

Ever take a look at a solar panel system and think to yourself: I could build that. The truth is that you probably can. Building a cheap, solar panel system is a fun project to take on that if done ...

The preliminary decision sides with U.S. manufacturers who say cheap solar cells and modules flooding American markets are benefiting from Chinese subsidies. The Commerce Department is proposing new ...

A solar panel can be seen at the Bavarian Greens' state delegates' conference. China's expansion of solar energy systems is set to slow down for the first time in six years, the China Photovoltaic ...

LONGi has announced another significant breakthrough in solar cell R&D, with its independently developed two-terminal crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell achieving a conversion efficiency ...

Solyco is developing a new low-temperature technology for the interconnection of solar cells. It consists of a round copper core with a diameter of 280 μm that is covered by a very thin layer of ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Swiss scientist Michael Graetzel won the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize on Wednesday for helping to develop cheap solar cells for renewable energy projects.