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Heraeus Photovoltaics, a leading technology solution provider for the renewable energy industry, and Cell Engineering, an engineering company based in Germany, today announced their joint development partnership on LECO technology. LECO (Laser Enhanced Contact Optimization) is a patented solution for solar cell manufacturers to significantly improve high-efficiency cell bin yields. Heraeus has invented, and is now refining, new LECO-specific metallization pastes which additionally improve overall cell efficiency by up to 0.15%. The technology is versatile and designed to be applicable for nearly all cell technologies which use co-firing. ...  more

Image by Marilyn Murphy from Pixabay Electric vehicles have been media darlings that dominate the headlines and guarantee huge viewership. But how popular are they really to the consumers? Can the sales really stack up to the media hype? ...  more

Credit: Peggy Choucair from Pixabay Not one, but two research teams from the U.S. found that agrivoltaics is a win-win for the crops and the solar modules. According to one of the studies from Oregon State University, agrivoltaics thrive in environments such as cropland, grasslands, and wetlands. The other study from the University of Arizona has gone even further and proved that Agrivoltaics can also flourish in dryland. ...  more

Credit: Flickr/zak zak The UK has been searching for ways to directly supply the railway system through solar energy since some of the UK's railway systems run on direct current (DC), which solar modules produce. Thus, there is no need to convert solar energy into alternating current. ...  more