Bosch Solar Energy (Arnstadt, Germany) and the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH, Emmerthal, Germany) have produced a 22.1% efficient crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) cell using ion implanted interdigitated back junction back contact (IBC) technology.

A solar-powered prototype of a wheelchair with retractable solar panels was the winner of the Change My World in One Minute organized by the 2012 World Cerebral Palsy Day.

The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile) has begun research on solar energy development in the region of Antofagasta.

Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun's light and heat into electricity.

Scientists at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW (Germany) have developed top-class lithium-ion batteries.

Japan could be on course to become the world’s largest market for solar energy, just two years after theFukushima power station melt down took virtually all of its nuclear fleet offline.

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Solar Power Alliance (PSPA) and the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature Philippines are working together to promote solar energy to Filipino households and businesses.

Kwon Sunbeom, 25, and his friends have invented a garbage bin that compresses rubbish using solar power and wirelessly communicates to be collected when full.

This month, workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Tonopah, Nevada.

230 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy capacity were installed by Austria in 2012. This more than doubled its total capacity, bringing it up to 415 MW.

MEXICO CITY: Global investment in clean energy climbed to a record $250 billion last year despite adverse worldwide economic conditions, the president of the International Solar Energy Society said in an interview in Mexico.

The German Federal Ministry of the Environment has announced that new incentives for energy storage systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will begin in February 2013.

The Hoa Binh provincial Science & Technology Analysis, Testing and Service Center has received the technology transfer to implement the project on using solar energy and diesel engine to generate electricity for remote areas.

In the latest issue of Science, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown how nanowires could pave the way for more efficient and cheaper solar cells.

Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates.

Rice University scientists have unveiled a revolutionary new technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam.

Creating fresh water from sea water using solar energy is a new success for the scientists from the Institute for Hydropower and Renewable Energy under the Vietnam Academy for Water Resources.

A revolutionary new way to create steam simply by using sunlight, has been discovered by researchers. The method is able to bring an entire container of fluid to boiling point, even a container of icy cold water.

Google announced that it was investing $ 280 million in a project to expand the use of solar energy by individuals.

A while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right. I wrote it because it was obvious that solar energy was primed to take off in India and it was clear there were two paths the country could take — distribute that boom to benefit the 300 million people still waiting for the grid, or forcibly centralize a resource that is most effective when distributed