Konarka’s advanced photovoltaic technology started with the work of the late Dr. Sukant Tripathy, an internationally known polymer materials scientist, provost at UMASS Lowell and founder of the Plastic Innovation Center and Dr. Alan Heeger, Konarka’s chief scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000. The ground-breaking discoveries from both founding scientists [...]

New company - Biosolar- has made the backsheet for solar panels not from plastic but from cotton and castor beans. We all knows that the plastic is mostly made from petroleum based products. Using the alternate products for the fabrication process instead of the classic plastic cuts the costs about 25%.
“It’s renewable and you don’t [...]

I came to this article about the Sunflower’s Fresnel lens . Those lens concentrates sunlight more than 1,000 times, enabling cheaper electricity than traditional photovoltaics. The system is self-powered.
Technical specifications:

200-watt system
features trackers that shift with the sun’s location, as well as a controller and communications system.
The low-slung Sunflower is built to withstand winds, and it [...]

The scientists from Institute for Solar Energy at the Polytechnic University and the Institute of Catalysis of the Spanish Higher Scientific Research Council in Madrid, Spain developped new solar cells that are more efficient. The new material developed can supposedly absorb both visible and infrared light, giving it a theoretical absorption limit of 63 percent. [...]

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The great ideas are often simple. When you have solar PV panels to produce electricity - you produce electricity. Or when you have solar water heaters - you produce hot water for your need. A company I want you to introduce is making a solar system which is generating electricity AND capturing the heat [...]

IBM becomed a partner with company Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK). IBM wants to develop cheaper and more efficient solar power technologies based on CIGS ( copper-indium-gallium-selenide ). Those cells should be more than 15% efficient. This is much more efficient than usual 6% to 12% efficiency that current (CIGS) solar cells have achieved.
Classic photovoltaic solar [...]

Solar energy is hot these days — pun intended. With energy bills on the rise, nonrenewable fossil fuels in decline, and federal and state tax incentives available, you may be thinking about buying a solar energy system that turns sunlight into electricity. You’re not alone: According to the research firm Solarbuzz, the U.S. market for [...]

With rising energy costs, many homeowners are asking, “Is there any relief?” The answer is YES! Thousands of homeowners in California have done their research and found solar to be a cost-effective, environmentally responsible way to reduce or zero their electric bills. There is some satisfaction in a solution that reduces dependence on the supply [...]

Artificial photosynthesis is based on the concept of a dye analogous to chlorophyll absorbing light and thus generating electrons which enter the conduction band of a high surface area semiconductor film and further move through an external circuit, thus converting light into “green” power.
They want to be the leading supplier of 3rd Generation Solar Technology. [...]