Solar

20% more powerful tandem solar panels enter commercial use for the first time

Oxford PV, a global leader in next-generation solar, has started the commercialisation of its record-breaking tandem solar technology with the first shipment to a US-based customer. The 72-cell panels, comprised of Oxford PV’s proprietary perovskite-on-silicon solar cells, can produce up to 20% more energy than a standard silicon panel. They will be used in a

How cheap solar power could have arrived decades ago

Solar’s development – stalled by Reagan in the US and underinvestment in Europe – offers lessons for today’s policymakers in other technologies If there’s a good news climate change story right now, one to counteract the grim daily scroll of reports about wildfires, droughts, dying coral reefs, and deadly heatwaves, it’s the stunning rise of

Great Britain on track to generate record levels of summer solar power

Forecasts suggest June-to-August output will exceed the high recorded in 2022 despite relatively poor weather Great Britain is on track to generate record levels of solar power this summer, according to expert forecasts, as the government pushes forward plans to triple the country’s solar energy capacity by the end of the decade. Solar power output

Food or solar? Farmers divided over land use

Should rural land be used to produce food or energy? It is a question that divides farmers nationwide, and is being debated on the Somerset Levels. On ancient grazing pastures steel and silicon solar panels are being installed, taking thousands of acres of farmland out of food production. Across the country, the new Energy Security

Solar power divides Warwickshire’s farmers

As cars zip down the M6 near Bedworth, Warwickshire, a large field alongside the motorway lies empty.With parched grass and dry mud as far as the eye can see, the field looks like typical farmland and has been used for growing crops in the past.But the owners of this land are embracing a new type

Solar panels could raise value of houses by up to 7.1%

Using a range of machine-learning techniques, a group of scientists found that PV systems can significantly increase the value of a property in the United Kingdom. The analysis was based on property data from Zoopla, one of the leading providers of UK property listings, and price paid data sourced from the government’s Land Registry from

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