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Research project Silicon-Light aims at better and cheaper solar cells on foil
Lead by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), a consortium of seven European partners and one Chinese university collaborate in a new solar cell research project with the name Silicon-Light. This project has started on January 1 of 2010 and will last for three years. The aim of this...[more]
HIFLEX for new low-cost scalable Organic Photovoltaics applications
On 1 January 2010 the European research project "HIFLEX" was launched. Over the next three years a European consortium comprising five research institutes and two industrial companies aims to jointly develop a technology for highly flexible Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) modules, which will allow the...[more]
ECN and REC repossess world record in solar energy
ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) has made the world’s first multi-crystalline silicon solar panel with 17.0 percent efficiency. This will be reported in the January 2010 issue of the journal “Progress in Photovoltaics” and represents a 1.5% improvement over the previous 15–year old...[more]
ECN unit Solar Energy wins innovation prize
The unit Solar Energy of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has won the European Innovation Prize. This announcement was made in Brussels last Wednesday evening, 9 December.[more]
Unit Solar Energy innovative in Europe
The ECN unit Solar Energy has every reason to celebrate: the unit has been nominated for a European innovation prize, the winner of which will be announced on December 9.[more]
Yingli Green Energy, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands and Amtech Systems announce research collaboration to develop next generation high efficiency solar cells
Patented method for improved solar cell efficiency expected to lower solar energy costs BAODING, China; TEMPE, Arizona, PETTEN, The Netherlands – June 4, 2009 – Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated...[more]
