“Plug-and-Play” Solar Kickoff: CSE Hosts First SunShot Project Meeting
Yesterday marked the official kickoff of our five-year, $11.7M research effort into “plug-and-play” solar systems for the US residential market. Funded by the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, this project will explore technologies…
Will Your Next Tablet Have Infinite Battery Life?
If you didn’t have an opportunity to visit us at the ARPA-E showcase this week, you’ve still got another chance to see something very special in action. At tonight’s MIT Energy Showcase, TechBridge…
Fraunhofer’s Photovoltaic Durability Initiative: Reducing Investment Risks
Financing photovoltaic power plants can be an uphill battle. As with any power plant, the payback time to recover the upfront building costs is a crucial factor in securing project funding. With a…
CSE’s Scientific Director Joins Intersolar North America Advisory Board
We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Christian Hoepfner, Fraunhofer CSE’s Scientific Director, will be joining the International Advisory Board supporting this year’s Intersolar North America conference. Intersolar North America is America’s leading solar…
PHOTON Consulting Tours Fraunhofer CSE’s Module Innovation Labs
Last week our Cambridge offices had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of analysts from PHOTON Consulting, a leading consulting and market research firm serving the solar sector. PHOTON’s cross-disciplinary team examines all aspects of…
CSE’s Solar Quality Assurance Process Gets Shortlisted at the Solar Industry Awards 2012
We’re proud to announce that LayTec GmbH’s X Link quality assurance tool, based on a patented process developed at Fraunhofer CSE, is one of several photovoltaic (PV) industry products shortlisted at the 2012 Solar…
Silicone Coatings: An Anti-Aging Elixir for Solar Cells
[A version of this article originally appeared in the July issue of the Fraunhofer Society’s Forschung Kompakt newsletter.] Sometimes, the success or failure of a technology comes down to a bare handful of…
LayTec and CSE Partner to Successfully Commercialize a New PV Metrology Method
The amount of photovoltaic (PV) solar power installed around the world has grown by a factor of almost sixty over the past decade, and it increased nearly 70% in the last year. As…
Design Meets Energy Efficiency: Das Haus Arrives in Boston
Working in close collaboration with Fraunhofer CSE and the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC), Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is bringing Das Haus, a pavilion showcase of German innovations in energy-efficient home…
Fraunhofer Examines Facts and Future Trends in German PV Solar Deployment
Deployment of renewable energies technologies —especially solar PV —is advancing rapidly. As the world leader in installed solar PV capacity, Germany continues to offer an interesting role model to clean energy advocates and…
