Best Articles on Solar Power

A solar array in Aldershot, Hampshire, UK is creating waves as the world’s first fully solar-powered railway line. People travelling by rail between London, Waterloo and Weymouth will get the benefit of the Network Rail’s pilot scheme.

Aviation is crossing new milestones with the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport in Tennessee becoming the first airfield in the United States to be run on 100% solar power.

Due to the geographic location, the Mideast receives more than 3600 hours of sunshine annually so investors are setting up solar farms to convert solar power into usable electricity.

By shrinking solar cells and connecting them in blocks only a few millimetres wide, mPower is able to assemble ‘flexible’ solar products that behave like standard high-efficiency solar panels.

A team of scientists at the University of Manchester has reportedly cracked a key defect in silicon solar cells after decades of research.

Researchers have reported a key breakthrough in how the performance of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells is improved further by the addition of selenium.

Imagine caffeine giving a boost to solar cells. The idea helped the researchers to discover an alternative to traditional solar cells, which are more efficient at converting light to electricity.

The biggest Japanese floating solar plant is constructed on the Yamakura Dam at Ichihara in Chiba prefecture which will generate around 16,170-megawatt hour per year.

Hydrogen for energy researchers is a clean and renewable source of energy. The quest so far has been to find a way to harness the energy available in workable volumes at a reasonable cost.