Solar Energy: Photovoltaic

• Currently average Sunpower's cells have a conversion ratio of 23.4 %. However, advances past this efficiency mark are being innovated and efficiencies of 42% have been achieved

• New technologies of photovoltaic cells are expected to hit the market soon: Fine layer cells and dye cells which will make solar cells much easier to integrate into buildings

• New research are under way to capture solar energy directly from space and to transfer it down to earth via micro waves

• Concentrating solar energy into new generation high temperature resistant solar cells is also under way and already experimented in Australia. Such technology has great potential.

• Solar photovoltaic energy is one of the most promising renewable energy sources which may well end up powering cities of the future

Source of Information : Climate Change: A Silent Threat by Sylvain Richer de Forges

Solar Energy: Photovoltaic