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A quiet residential road in Eastbourne has been officially named the sunniest place in the whole of the UK. Burton Road in Eastbourne sees an average 1,934.5 hours of sunshine in 12 months, an impressive 42.8% more than the 1,345.9 hour average. The news was announced this week in The Telegraph after energy firm HomeSun [...]
The much acclaimed feed in tariff that encouraged many to invest in solar energy for their homes and small businesses has been slashed by the government to 50% of its original level. Many home-owners have been taking advantage of these quite generous subsidies which have often given returns on UK installed solar systems of around [...]
The grade 1 listed building is doing its bit for the energy cause by getting around 100,000 pounds worth of solar panels fitted to its roof-top. Perhaps we could see similar moves up and down the country as churches and cathedrals decide that solar panels are a good way of generating money for the church. [...]
In the race for ever increasing efficiency improvements in solar PV, Solar Junction have developed a new system which aims to harvest light from the sun more effectively by using a multiple layers. The solar junction devices which are designed for the CPV or concentrated applications are a leap forward in efficiency. Solar Junction was [...]
Deserts have plenty of sand, otherwise known as silica, this is one of the main components of solar photovoltaic panels. Making the panels means a rich supply of sand is a prerequisite. Here’s anew idea to actually make photovoltaics in the desert. By extracting silica from sand in the Sahara, refining it, and growing the silicon [...]
Boeing, the aircraft and engineering company are planning to mass produce solar cells with an unparalleled efficiency of 39.2% efficiency, some of the highest efficiency rates in the business. They are mass producing photovoltaics from Spectrolabs (a boeing subsidiary) which has a long and illustrious background in producing and developing photovoltaics for a variety of applications from space [...]
Greendix have developed leaf shaped photovoltaics that could revolutionize the places that solar cells find themselves. Could we expect to see leafs on artificial trees? What other styled cells could we see in the future? Full trees? This could be a great way to generate power without resorting to the large scale panels that we [...]
We have included some videos to help explain how Photovoltaics/solar power works.
Fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal are used around the world as primary sources of energy. Because they are being used up much faster than they can be renewed, they are known as nonrenewable sources. Nonrenewable energy sources represent about 90% of the energy used today. These sources are being depleted. Since [...]
If you look at a modern home today you will see that there is a lot of energy needed. All this energy is needed to keep your house warm and use all the electric equipment or just to shower with warm water. The modern home needs and uses lots of energy and the costs are [...]
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