Researchers had placed a cotton sheet on the back of a PV module, which was then made wet and cooled. On the front side, water was pumped water from a pipe in a way that kept the panel both cool and ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT has developed a solar module cleaning system that uses structure-borne sound and targeted mechanical vibrations to dislodge dust. Researchers ...

When my friends and I bought our off-grid property on California’s Central Coast, we found ourselves simultaneously blessed by a large, steep, south-facing hillside — an ideal location for solar ...

Dr. Christoph Wenge, another research scientist at Fraunhofer IFF, said, “The widest array of faults can occur in the solar ...