Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Honda Motor Co. and Astrobotic Technology have entered a joint development agreement to investigate scalable lunar power solutions that combine Honda's regenerative fuel cell (RFC) system with Astrobotic's Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) and LunaGrid service. The collaboration aims to deliver continuous and reliable power for extended lunar surface operations, particularly during the two-

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2025 Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has secured a contract from Axiom Space to provide roll-out solar array (ROSA) wings for the Payload Power Thermal Module (AxPPTM), the first module of Axiom Station, the company's planned commercial orbital platform. "As a market leader for space power solutions, Redwire is proud to be selected as a strategic supplier to deliver ROSAs for Axiom Space's firs

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Researchers at Lund University have taken a major step toward solving one of the biggest obstacles in developing efficient solar fuels. Their work shows how inexpensive iron-based systems could be used more effectively to store solar energy as fuel, paving the way for cheaper and more sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels. Producing fuels such as green hydrogen requires catalysts that c

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 As perovskite solar cells (PSCs) move closer to commercialization, researchers are addressing hidden performance losses at the buried electron-transport interface. A team led by Prof. Guozhen Liu, Prof. Zhihua Zhang, and Prof. Xu Pan has developed a single-molecule strategy called self-regulated bilateral anchoring that enhances efficiency and durability in both rigid and flexible devices.

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Global electricity consumption is rising rapidly, and researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have made progress toward developing next-generation solar cell materials. Their work uses computer simulations and machine learning to better understand halide perovskites, which are lightweight, flexible, and highly efficient but prone to instability. According to the Internat

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Researchers from Taizhou University and the University of Delaware have reported the first experimental solar cell to exceed the long-standing Shockley-Queisser efficiency ceiling for single-junction devices. Their n-type monocrystalline silicon cells achieved 50-60 percent power-conversion efficiency at cryogenic temperatures of 30-50 K, nearly doubling the best room-temperature record. T

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Researchers have used advanced quantum-chemical molecular dynamics simulations to capture the ultrafast formation of charge-stabilizing polarons in NaTaO3, a benchmark photocatalyst for solar water splitting. The work reveals that positive charges, or hole polarons, stabilize far more rapidly and strongly than electrons, providing key insights for engineering next-generation solar fuel catalysts

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 A team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a wide-ranging review of perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells (PSTJSCs), highlighting their rapid progress and outlining future research priorities. The study, appearing in Nano-Micro Letters, was led by Leiping Duan, Cheng Xu, and Jianghui Zheng. As silicon solar cells approach their theoretical ceiling of 29.4 p

Ordos, China (AFP) Oct 1, 2025 An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition. Even as other countries have put the brakes on desert solar projects for economic or technical reasons, China - the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases - is ploughing ahead. Desert solar installations a

Berlin (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday rejected claims his government was undermining the climate change fight, but insisted that industry also needed to be protected to revive the crisis-wracked economy. Critics charge that Merz's conservative-led coalition is putting a brake on the shift to green energy through measures ranging from a planned expansion of gas power to proposals to s

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2025 Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed solar array substrate design that cuts composite build times by as much as six months for a typical solar wing assembly, representing up to a 50 percent faster production cycle compared with current methods. The company has already completed engineering tests on flight-ready hardware and is moving through standard qualification steps ahead of operational

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 17, 2025 A new study in Materials Futures sheds light on the main degradation pathways affecting scalable wide bandgap (WBG) perovskite solar cells, a promising material for tandem solar technologies. Researchers from imec, Hasselt University, and Ghent University in Belgium demonstrated how thermal stress - whether in the dark or under illumination - plays a central role in device instability. The