AS Published on Saturday 26 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:battery materials
Cobalt supply to the European Union
British researchers are looking at European cobalt supply in the medium and long term:
European demand for cobalt (Editor's note for automobiles. Without this clarification, it does not fit in with the following paragraph) is currently located
AS Published on Saturday 26 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:other batteries
Sodium batteries have a big future
Researchers from several European research centres have found that this technology has made faster technical progress than lithium-ion batteries, which have been studied for three decades. "The ongoing development of the best available materials for Na-ion [sodium-ion] cells is a major step forward.
L R AS Published on Saturday 26 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:electric vehicles, lithium batteries
How will the cost of storage evolve?
According to IHS Markit, storage costs will continue to fall as a result of improved manufacturing productivity. This will lead to a higher adoption rate.
L R AS Published on Saturday 26 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:panels
600 W panels always raise questions
Trina Solar's answers to questions about 600 W panels
Panels using 210 mm cells are currently suitable for the following applications
L R AS Published on Saturday 26 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:lithium batteries
Sharp drop in price and increased power of batteries according to Elon Musk
The cost of batteries should halve in three years, according to Elon Musk
Changes in battery form, materials, supply chain and manufacturing could result in savings that could cut battery prices in half: this set of advances will increase the cost of batteries by
L R AS Published on Monday 21 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:R&D , lithium batteries
The use of more nickel in batteries faces complications
To avoid the extensive use of cobalt, which causes serious environmental damage and which comes 66% from a single unstable country, battery manufacturers want to use more nickel. Only such nickel-doped lithium ion batteries, which are only subject to
L R AS Published on Sunday 20 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:hydrogen
New suggestion: producing green hydrogen in North Africa
Why not produce green hydrogen in North Africa and then import it into Italy? This would make an economy of
AS Published on Sunday 20 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:silicon mono/multi, capacity increase/decrease
Daqo further increases its production of silicon and wafers
Daqo New Energy plans to list its silicon production subsidiary in Xinjiang on the Shanghai stock exchange. The sale of 15 % of the capital will create
L R AS Published on Sunday 20 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:Photovoltaics
Reducing non-material costs to reduce the amount of investment
Sunpower's young spin-off company, Terabase, is examining around 100 solar power plant components to reduce construction costs as much as possible, with the idea that the larger the solar project, the more money can be saved by finding additional sources of yield.
AS Published on Sunday 20 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:followers
You gain (a little) with the double-sided, and with the vertical panels on the followers.
NEXTracker will supply 1 GW of single axis trackers for the fifth phase of the huge Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Dubai.
The manufacturer has analysed the extra solar yield offered by two-sided panels compared to single-sided panels, both mounted on single-axis trackers. It states that the efficiency gain is 5% at
AS Published on Sunday 20 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:hydrogen
The complementarity between hydrogen / electricity / heat is great but the cost of hydrogen limits its use.
Swiss scientists from ETH (Zurich) have examined the interaction between energy, heat, cooling, fuels and transport. They say that the conversion of electricity to hydrogen is particularly promising.
L R AS Published on Saturday 19 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:agrovoltaic
Sunscreens for greenhouses
The French company Solar Cloth has developed a PV screen for solar greenhouses. The screen consists of two films, one made of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium and selenium), the other of amorphous silicon germanium (a-SIGe).
L R AS Published on Saturday 19 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:followers
Floating mounting structures for photovoltaics
The Spanish company Isigenere has developed floating mounting structures for photovoltaics
AS Published on Saturday 19 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:battery materials
Nobody knows how much lithium there is on earth!
How long will the lithium supply last? This metal is essential for batteries. However, the number of batteries for electric vehicles is increasing (+25% per year between 2015 and 2018). Demand in 2015 was 34,600 tonnes, 40% of which was for vehicles. It will reach 34,600 tonnes in 2019,
AS Published on Friday 18 September 2020 - n° 332 - Categories:brochures
Is it possible to reduce the thickness of the wafers (currently 180 microns or µ)?
Korean scientists at the KIST have engraved tiny pyramids on the surface of a silicon cell from