Higher efficiencies with lower CO2 emissions: These are the expectations for turbine components made of 3D fibre-reinforced oxide ceramics.
A cluster plant set up at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin enables perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells to be produced on industrial wafer sizes.
The team of scientists in the HiTRec3D research project used an innovative absorber to achieve up to 8 per cent higher efficiency than before.
Good news for sustainable climate protection on today's Global Wind Day: The cost of electricity from wind power keeps getting cheaper.
With a record efficiency of 47.6 per cent, scientists have reclaimed the title of the world's most efficient solar cell for Germany.
Scientists are researching liquid salt storage tanks for solar thermal power plants that are suitable for high temperatures until 620 degrees Celsius.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and its partners in Portugal inaugurated one of the world's first parabolic trough plants operated with liquid salt.
The scientists in the REPA research project are working on uniform testing standards for flexible pipe connections in solar thermal power plants.
Teams of scientists are developing new semiconductors based on gallium nitride for the next generation of efficient photovoltaic inverters.