Tag
Photovoltaik
2026
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AMO cycle: Are PV and wind yields shifting?
The AMO cycle could change the yield patterns of PV and wind power. What does this mean for security of supply, storage and regional energy autonomy?
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5-point plan for radical EEG reform
The 5-point plan for reforming Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) by Hans-Josef Fell (Energy Watch Group) confirms demands for decentralised energy supply … which have been known for decades.
2025
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Europe is falling behind – and why it hurts
Europe clings to expensive fossil structures while China races ahead with free solar energy, AI and dark factories. A personal wake-up call.
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Lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion): the true cost
Li-ion batteries cost more and deliver less. WEST shows why safe, sustainable energy storage is the better solution.
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EU directive set to make balcony power plants harder
Balcony power plants: in future, connection only to final circuits; the Schuko plug is to be replaced by a safe, proprietary plug.
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Feldheim: how a small village leads the energy transition
Feldheim is energy self-sufficient: a village shows how citizens shape the energy transition themselves – sustainably, affordably and together.
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Plus-energy house – blackout-proof thanks to sunflowers
Blackout-proof plus-energy house in Maria Ponsee: PV, power storage & vegetable-oil emergency power secure a sustainable energy supply.
2024
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Storm Destroys Wind and Solar Farm
Energy transition: so-called "renewable" energy mainly creates renewed problems when the weather doesn't play along.
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WEST Supercap Power Storage
European premiere: WEST power storage made of graphene-coated supercapacitors offers clear advantages over conventional lithium-ion batteries.
2023
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Sono Motors: series production has failed
In the end, the money ran out: the Munich start-up Sono Motors has officially abandoned its goal of building a solar electric car it developed itself, and is withdrawing into the pure solar business.
2022
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Gigantic development in battery technology
1,000 km WLTP range, 700 km recharged in 10 minutes – with completely different, sustainable, unproblematic raw materials.
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Validation of neutrino energy estimation
Assessments by a neutrino working group. Research plays an important role at the Neutrino® Energy Group, which is well connected with scientists at numerous universities.
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Neutrinovoltaics: the solution to all energy worries?
Generating energy from invisible radiation could revolutionise the electromobility market. tv.berlin visited Neutrino Energy's new production site in Frankfurt (Oder).
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Generating energy with invisible radiation
Neutrinovoltaics is relatively new as an alternative energy technology. The name combines neutrino and photovoltaics – a clean way to generate electricity from invisible radiation.
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Solar cells can also work in the dark
Neutrinovoltaics: the evolution of photovoltaic solar cells. Wind and sun are free and abundant – but unreliable. Neutrinovoltaics generates power around the clock.
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Switching to 100% renewable energy earned us EUR 1,000
Our bill for 2021 confirms it: we generate 2.5 times more PV electricity than we draw from the grid – and my daughter gets more than EUR 1,000 back.
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ORF magazine Konkret | "4 Wände – 4 Hände" pays a visit
A detached house with no mains electricity and no connection to the sewer system – that used to exist, but who still wants that today? A builder in the Weinviertel does.
2021
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PV modules always perfectly aligned with the sun
Optimising balcony power plants – automatically aligned with the position of the sun? Together with interested people, I would like to start a project for home use.
2020
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First automotive tipping point reached with electric mobility
Not a doom-laden message but reality: this is what the mobility transition means. The first automotive tipping point has been reached with electric mobility. What comes next?
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We need a shared understanding …
A powerful statement that has been overdue for decades: "We need a shared understanding of the radical nature of the change, the size of our task and how little time we have." (Source: Volkswagen AG – speech by VW CEO Herbert Diess at the Global Board Meeting on 16 January 2020)
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The age of mobility is only just beginning
The 19th century was the age of steam. The 20th century was the age of petrol and diesel. And the 21st century will go down as the century of the electric car.
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Nord Stream 2 disregards the energy policy triangle
Energy security, economic viability, environmental protection. The US sanctions are justified, says Wolfgang Löser, and passes on Hans-Josef Fell's analysis of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.
2019
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Electricity labelling conceals origin
In Austria it is legal to sell pure nuclear power as green electricity. The Austrian electricity mix still contains up to 13.3 per cent nuclear power.
2018
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Power blackout – the unsuspected apocalypse?
Blackout: looking to the past is definitely not helpful. Fundamental changes in power supply, generation and grids are only just beginning.
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Photovoltaics: cheaper than ever
The price of PV modules has fallen to an incredible 200 euros per kWp for polycrystalline cells. Nothing can stop the energy transition now, because renewable energy is far cheaper than any fossil or nuclear energy.