Projecto português fomenta electricidade a custos reduzidos

Ciência Hoje
Um projecto inovador de produção de energia eléctrica através de células fotovoltaicas sensibilizadas com corante, liderado por Adélio Mendes, professor associado da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), acaba de ser distinguido com o Prémio Solvay atribuído na área da engenharia química e ambiente pelo grupo Solvay Portugal e a Hovione. (...) Adélio Mendes adianta que estão já a ser fechadas algumas parcerias para financiar o fabrico deste produto, estando já a ser feito um protótipo industrial. O investigador aponta 2014 como o ano do lançamento do produto no mercado.

Light Sanctuary: a Field of Solar Ribbons Rises in the Desert

Light Sanctuary: a Field of Solar Ribbons Rises in the Desert | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
The UAE may be built on profits reaped from its oil-rich sands, but out of the region’s vast deserts rises a new vision for a solar farm unlike any we have seen before. Conceived by Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon, the Light Sanctuary is an elegantly unfurling ribbon of solar thin-film panels designed to take advantage of Dubai’s immense solar resources. The project is composed of a new type of thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells with suspended walls that curl and undulate across the desert landscape, mimicking a mirage from afar and creating an immersive and sensual experience up close.

Sunglasses
Semitransparent dye-sensitized solar cells on sunglasses, by Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong, via EcoGeek

Candidaturas para bolsas de integração na investigação
No âmbito do concurso BII da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa o Centro de Sistemas de Energias Sustentáveis da UL propõe quatro projectos para estudantes do 1º Ciclo com interesse em "aprender a investigar" energia solar. O período para candidaturas termina dia 15 de Outubro.

Dyesel developing and commercialising next generatiion solar panels for buildings
Major Italian Corporations ERG Renew (ERG Group) and Permasteelisa, are to enter into the development and industrial production using Dyesol materials and technologies of DSC panels (Dye Solar Cells) (...) The Universities of Rome Tor Vergata, Ferrara and Turin will be partners in the project which will undertake the industrial research phase. Universita Roma Tor Vergata recently purchased a prototype facility from Dyesol and a team from the University is currently training at Dyesol's Australian Headquarters. (...) On completion of the development and first stage production facility, ERG Renew and Permasteelisa will produce and market these next-generation panels which based on cost, efficiency and durability are forecast to set a new industry benchmark being more competitive than the traditional silicon technology products. (...) about $75 value of DSC materials in every square metre of product.