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A pedagogical and practical report has recently been published to inform stakeholders of the risks and solutions. It provides a summary of four years work carried out by a group of civil and fire safety experts, scientists and industrialists, which was specifically created on the initiative of the French Directorate General for Civil Security and Crisis Management and the Fire Department of Savoie-France (SDIS73).
The large-scale deployment of solar energy and the sustainability of the photovoltaic industry require further improvements in the environmental footprint of technologies. One of the challenges is to reduce the use of certain materials such as silver, which is deposited during the metallization stage of the cells, with a positive effect on the competitiveness of the industry.
CEA has been using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) to manufacture complex parts for nearly 40 years. HIP can be used to post-process parts manufactured using conventional casting and powder metallurgy processes. It can also be used to sinter powders, effectively compacting them, and to assemble solid parts by diffusion welding. HIP, once reserved for the nuclear and aeronautics industries, is now making inroads into the renewable energy market, where it is helping support the energy transition.
Enel Green Power and the CEA at INES are developing high efficiency bifacial photovoltaic panels. This technology, intended mainly for large-scale ground-mounted power plants, can gain even more energy-efficient, and not only thanks to the efficiency of cells and modules. The addition of an energy conversion system, as close as possible to the panel, makes it possible to reduce the impact of certain defects linked to the installation site and to increase the overall power of the plant.
CEA-Liten recently developed a system to control heat and power production and supply systems more realistically.
RTE and the CEA have just completed an 8-month experiment on the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles at the CEA centre in Cadarache. The aim was to link the charging stations to a solar power plant and an intelligent management and control system in order to significantly increase the share of solar energy in electric mobility.
On Wednesday and Thursday 6th and 7th of July, CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, based in France, hosted the kick-off meeting of SURPASS.
ITE INES.2S is developing a prototype kit to "solarize" electric vehicles already on the market.
Exponential growth in the number of sensors and other connected devices has made the Internet of Things, or IoT, virtually ubiquitous. And, not surprisingly, energy production, storage, and management—vital to keeping IoT devices running—are now top of mind.
At CEA-Liten's Nanosafety Platform, researchers have been studying nanomaterial lifecycles for over fifteen years, seeking to identify risks at every stage to make these materials safer and more sustainable.
The CEA at INES has produced the first prototype of a 400W photovoltaic microinverter made with GaN transistors developed by the CEA laboratories at Leti. It offers a high power density of 1.1 kW/L and an efficiency of 97%
DELTA DORE, a CEA partner at INES since 2016 and an associate partner of the Institute for Energy Transition INES.2S since its creation, is joining the ITE consortium and its governance.
The ITE INES.2S is conducting research on life cycle analysis and is developing a tool for the analysis of the environmental impact of installations composed of photovoltaic (PV) panels and a battery storage system, in self-consumption. A guidance to make technological choices with regard to their environmental impacts.
The EFCF 2022 forum will be chaired by Dr. Julie Mougin and Dr. Jérôme Laurencin, from CEA Liten. This event will address Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) and Solid Oxide Electrolysers (SOE) matters. The energy transition, essential to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, will involve a large number of technologies for hydrogen production, storage and transport.
The CEA at INES obtained flexible perovskite solar modules with a surface area of 11.6 cm2 and a power conversion efficiency of 18.9% (stabilized efficiency > 18.5%).
The CEA recently developed a stretchable, screen-printable deformation sensor that could be deposited on textiles.
Massive electrification is one of the keys to more environmentally sustainable energy practices—and one that will help us reach the target of reducing fossil-fuel consumption by half by 2050.
INES.2S supports Team AURA for the Solar Decathlon 2022 in Wuppertal. Good luck to the team for the final run!
CEA-Liten and its partners have been looking at ways to optimize the management of urban heat networks for many years. Recently, they developed innovative algorithms and integrated them in a suite of software called DistrictLab-H.
The CEA at INES is partner in this project, led by the company Lumila, of a photovoltaic charging station not connected to the grid, intended for beekeepers in Burkina Faso.
The CEA-Liten at INES, in collaboration with ENEL Green Power, is developing the two-terminal Si/PK tandem technology with the aim of achieving high efficiencies in conventional photovoltaic formats with processes that allow their industrialization.
A new composite packaging with flexible sensors ensures continuous increased safety while shaving 15% off battery pack weight. The system, which has potential for a wide range of other uses, leverages structural electronics, battery, and signal processing research.
Moving towards new recyclable and/or eco-composite materials, such as natural fibres and recyclable polymer resins, to manufacture photovoltaic panels and further reduce their environmental footprint. The next step in photovoltaics?
Enel Green Power and CEA achieve 24.47% efficiency for an industrial-sized Ga-doped P-type silicon heterojunction at INES
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.