Introduction RE<C was a Google initiative to drive innovation in renewable energy, with the goal of making renewable energy cheap enough to compete head-to-head with coal-fired power plants. Hence the name RE<C “renewable energy cheaper than coal.” As part of this initiative, Google formed an engineering team to develop promising technologies in the field of solar energy power generation. After...

using photovoltaic systems is gradually expanded by increasing energy demand. abundance and availability of this energy, has turned to one of the most important sources of renewable energy. unfortunately, photovoltaic systems have two big problems: first, those have very low energy conversion efficiency (in act between 12 and 42 percent under certain circumstances). second, the power produced b...

Renewable energy has attracted a lot of interest due to the limited supply of coal and oil and the environmental concern of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. There are many different forms of renewable (green) energy including: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and so on. Among them, solar energy is the fastest-growing segment. Increasing manufacturing capacity and decreasing product costs have le...

The electricity economy and its excessive consumption have become one of the main concerns of the Iranian government for many years. This issue, along with recent droughts, shows the need to use renewable energy that is free and clean and does not require water. In addition, due to the high cost of cable-laying and maintenance of power lines, it is not at all an option at all distances over the...

Faced with the increasingly serious energy and environmental crisis in the world nowadays, the development of renewable energy has attracted increasingly more attention of all countries. Solar energy as an abundant and cheap energy is one of the most promising renewable energy sources. While high-performance solar cells have been well developed in the last couple of decades, the high module cos...

There is a growing need for renewable energy sources, and solar power is a good option in many instances. Photovoltaic solar panels are now being manufactured via various methods, and different printing processes are being incorporated into the manufacturing process. Screen printing has been used most prevalently in the printing process to make solar cells, but some companies have used the offs...

Due to disperse nature of renewable energy resources (RES), electricity generation is often taking place in small scale but main drawback is power quality. So to improve power quality issues, integration of renewable energy into the utility grid can be done either at transmission level or the distribution level depending on the scale of generation. The renewable resources like solar energy, win...

The paper aims to show that implementing different types of reflectors in solar energy systems, will dramatically improve energy production by means of concentrating and intensifying more sunlight onto a solar cell. The Solar Intensifier unit is designed to increase efficiency and performance of a set of solar panels. The unit was fabricated and tested. The experimental results show good improv...

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