Ubiquitous Energy (Redwood City, California), a leader in transparent solar technology, has produced the first demonstration commercial window façades using over 1 square metre of the company’s truly transparent solar technology, ClearView Power. The fibreglass-framed ClearView Power window units demonstrate the transparent photovoltaic technology’s aesthetic beauty, high transparency, and colour neutrality.
KROENERT GmbH & Co KG (Hamburg, Germany), a leader in the manufacture of customised coating and laminating systems, has expanded its service portfolio and conducted its first open training session for customers. The training sessions, each of which focuses on a single topic, are held at the KROENERT premises. They are designed for all customers who use KROENERT systems and are interested in expanding their knowledge to increase productivity and the competitive advantage of their production plant.
Scientists at Solliance (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), in collaboration with MiaSole Hi-Tech Corp., fabricated a flexible solar cell with a record breaking power conversion efficiency of 21.5%. The solar cell combines two thin-film solar cell technologies into a 4 terminal tandem solar cell stack: a top flexible semi-transparent perovskite solar cell with a bottom flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) cell.
