Articles - Solar

Imagine that you have a voltage source in series with some source resistance feeding power to a variable load. The relationship between load voltage, load current, and cell current can be drawn as follows in Figure 1. Figure 1. The load voltage ...

A solar-powered lead-acid battery charger can ensure that the battery remains fully charged over a wide temperature range. The ideal charging circuit compensates for temperature and sunlight variations, including recovery from shading. Solar or ...

Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg Renewable Energy World Europeans can massively expand low-cost solar generation just by tapping the space over their heads. That’s the conclusion of researchers who used satellite imagery, electricity prices and ...

PowerPulse Negative capacitance has been in the news twice this week; first as a potentially enabling technology for more efficient computing and second as a way to improve the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells. With a little ...

Cabe Atwell Electronic Design Superpowers on every continent are in an all-out sprint for the title of the largest utility-scale solar project on the planet. Who will win the race for clean energy, and what will we lose? Renewable energy has made a ...

A maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller circuit is extremely useful in solar photovoltaic systems for boosting power usage efficiency. The traditional MPPT design, though, requires the use of a multiplier to calculate power from source ...

Megan Darby Climate Home Developer TuNur applied for authorisation to build a massive solar plant on the edge of the Tunisian Sahara, with undersea grid connections to Europe TuNur is proposing a series of concentrated solar plants like Spain's ...

Редакционная статья Electronic Specifier Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Rice University have tweaked their crystal production method and developed a type of two-dimensional layered perovskite with ...

By Dan Stober Stanford Report A common criticism of a total transition to wind, water and solar power is that the U.S. electrical grid can't affordably store enough standby electricity to keep the system stable. Stanford researcher Mark Z. ...

Bruce Dorminey, Contributing Editor Renewable Energy World Magazine Both the developing and the developed world have reasons to employ battery technology. Here’s why. Battery technology has come a long way since the days when your granddad ...