Monday 23 February 2015

New Solar Cell Efficiency Record Set

If solar energy is to become a truly viable means of sustainably generating electricity that replace nuclear or fossil fuels then it must become more efficient.

Soitec and CEA-Leti (France) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Germany) have just set a world record for the efficiency of their new solar cell, beating their own previous record set in 2013.

That means that solar cell efficiency has increased from just over 32% in the year 2000 to 46% today. 

That's not just going to be very important for those countries like the UK that aren't overly blessed with much sun, but also such efficiency would make a huge impact on the huge solar farms starting to pop up in desert regions:


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