Rotor blades of wind turbine against blue sky
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Wind power
Wind turbines can stabilise the power grid

IRENA study "Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2019" confirms: In many places, power from fossil fuels is already more expensive than wind power.

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The picture shows a test stand for parabolic trough mirrors in the quartz test laboratory of the German Aerospace Center.
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Solar thermal power plants
Why international standards for solar power plant components are important

Smooth power plant operation requires binding guidelines for the construction of mirrors or receivers.

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Funding
Energy research makes patents possible and brings innovations to the market

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Measuring rotor blades from a distance
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Wind power
Measuring rotor blades from a distance

An innovative measurement concept will in future support the servicing of wind turbines. This will also help to further optimise the plant design.

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Employees of NexWafe GmbH examine wafers.
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Photovoltaics
NexWafe plans gigawatt factory in Bitterfeld

With its alternative wafer manufacturing process, the company aims to enter into mass production of photovoltaics in 2022.

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Dismantling a wind turbine at sea
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Photovoltaics, Wind power
Recycling of offshore plants and photovoltaic modules

Wind turbines and photovoltaic modules have a limited lifetime. A number of projects are looking at how the components can be recycled. 

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Wind turbine
© BMWK - Holger Vonderlind

Wind power
Fraunhofer IWES develops the world's largest network simulator

The new test rig enables science teams to test how powerful wind turbines can optimally supply power to the grid.

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HZB's record-breaking cell with an efficiency of 29.15 per cent.
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Photovoltaics
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell reaches new record

The newly developed photovoltaic cell made of silicon and perovskite crystals can convert 29.15 per cent of the incident light into power.

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Novel battery inverters by SMA Solar Technology
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Photovoltaics, Thermal power plants
New battery inverter successfully in use

The battery inverter by SMA are the result of a research project and are used worldwide for power storage.

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