Fast Company

This $344 million Georgia factory will use old solar panels to make parts for new ones

In Texas, Solarcycle mines old solar panels for their materials. In Georgia, it’s building a factory to turn recycled solar glass into glass for new panels. Until recently, when a solar panel reached ...
Electrek

Heliene will make solar panels using SOLARCYCLE’s recycled glass and it’s a big deal

In a major breakthrough for the solar industry, Heliene will make solar panels using SOLARCYCLE‘s ultra-low carbon solar glass made of recycled solar panel materials. The North American solar panel ...
pv magazine International

Using laser processed glass as solar concentrators for BIPV

Researchers from Aalto University in Finland demonstrated a proof-of-concept of laser-processed glass to be used as a type of solar concentrator for building integrated PV (BIPV) applications. The ...
pv magazine International

Amorphous silicon-silicon tandem solar cell achieves 12.3% efficiency via new honeycomb-shaped micro-structures

TU Delft researchers developed a novel hexagonal microtextured glass that enhances light scattering up to 50%, improving optical performance in thin-film silicon solar cells. The technology shows ...