Perovskites: Lord of Light?
Perovskites are the fastest-improving solar innovation. The best test-cells hit a new record of 28% efficiency last year, with line-of-sight to the mid-30s, i.e., 2x more efficient than today’s silicon…
Solar costs: four horsemen?
…challenges, which could stifle future deflation or even re-inflate solar. Most debilitating would be a re-doubling of CO2-intensive PV-silicon. Our 15-page report explores re-inflation risks for solar developers. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout…
Energy transition: top commodities?
…Earths, Nickel, Oil, Polyurethanes, PV Silicon, Silicon Carbide, Silver, STATCOMs, Steel, Sulphuric Acid, Tin, Uranium, Vanadium. Further details on each commodity can be found by browsing our supply-demand models. Another…
Vacuum pumps: company screen?
The global market for vacuum pumps is worth $15bn per year, with growing importance for making semiconductors, solar panels and AI chips. This data-file reviews ten leading companies in vacuum…
HJT solar: Indium summer?
…benefits of using Indium in HJT solar, and who benefits as solar evolves? $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Solar energy is a semiconductor technology and thus it evolves quickly. Last…
LED lighting: leading companies in LEDs?
…2022, operating margins averaged 8%, due to high competition, fragmentation and inorganic activity. The value chain ranges from LED semiconductor dyes to service providers installing increasingly efficient lighting systems as…
Maxwell’s demon: computation is energy?
…1bn times more energy than the thermodynamic minimum. One reason, of course, is that modern computers flow electricity through semiconductors, which are highly resistive. Indeed, undoped silicon is 100bn times…
Solar module production by company?
…comparing the companies by solar module selling prices ($/kW), margins (%), efficiency (%), transparency, and technology development. $599.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Solar modules are produced when photovoltaic silicon (model…
First Solar: thin film solar breakthrough?
…First Solar‘s CdTe technology are that they use about 60% less energy and emit about 60% less CO2 than photovoltaic silicon. First Solar also has manufacturing facilities in Ohio, satisfying…
Demand shifting: electrical flexibility by industry?
…semiconductors as pure silicon boules are crystallized out at 25 mm per hour in the Czochralski process. Mining processes perhaps screen best of all? Processes such as communition, flotation, heap…