“We have developed a material that absorbs infrared and is all transparent to the visible light.” One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created [...]

They can be produced in high volume at low cost UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate [...]

BIPV Breakthrough Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and New Energy Technologies, Inc., a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies, have collaboratively created a virtually ‘invisible’ [...]

A new set of compounds for dye-sensitized solar cells have lowered costs and improved efficiency   Plants have been using a green pigment for billions of years to capture sunlight, turning it into a flow [...]

Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) or concentrating PV technologies aren’t new In the age of green energy we are seeing interesting new developments that marry building materials with the capacity to harness renewable power sources. Building [...]