The hinged and folded solar array system developed by Australian company 5B can be established into a commercial solar plant in a swift manner. The company had managed to deploy a 1.1MW solar set-up in May using a 10-person team. ...  more

Business tycoon Elon Musk tweeted In April that the establishment of an ultra-large solar power plant in Spain would provide power for the entire Europe, and still believes such action can resolve the EU’s existing energy crisis. ...  more

Upstream Chinese solar suppliers are currently unfolding a ferocious price competition that has led to a drop in wafer prices, and is expected to lower module cost in 2023 that would facilitate Chinese and global solar development. ...  more

On January 3, Jinko Solar (JinkSolar) held a ceremony in Haining to mark the signing of two project investment agreements. Under these agreements, Jinko will set up a project for manufacturing high-efficiency PV cells and modules and a project for manufacturing energy storage systems in Haining. ...  more

A few days ago, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 114 satellites into the low Earth orbit, including the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD) developed by California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ...  more

Perovskite and silicon solar have always been powerful partners, and German scientists have recently attained a new record of 32% in conversion efficiency of tandem perovskite and silicon solar cells. ...  more

According to the latest data of SolarPower Europe, Europe had installed 650K units of residential battery energy storage systems in 2021, and has now exceeded a million units in 2022. ...  more

Differentiating from traditional solar panels, thin and flexible thin-film solar panels are capable in additional application possibilities, and can be applied on various irregular and curved surfaces. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has now developed a solar cell that is even thinner than a hair, which can be used from ePaper to lightweight wearables. ...  more