{"id":180333,"date":"2024-01-12T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/towards-a-sustainable-future-kausts-solar-center-paves-the-way-for-affordable-clean-energy"},"modified":"2024-01-12T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T18:22:26","slug":"towards-a-sustainable-future-kausts-solar-center-paves-the-way-for-affordable-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/towards-a-sustainable-future-kausts-solar-center-paves-the-way-for-affordable-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Sustainable Future: KAUST\u2019s Solar Center Paves the Way for Affordable Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/towards-a-sustainable-future-kausts-solar-center-paves-the-way-for-affordable-clean-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The market for perovskite\/silicon tandems is expected to exceed $10 billion within a decade,\u201d said Dr. Stefaan De Wolf. \u201cKAUST is at the forefront of this revolution, laying the groundwork for affordable, accessible clean energy for all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The road towards a cleaner future has taken a massive step forward, as a team of researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have successfully conducted laboratory tests of perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells, which offer greater efficiency than crystalline silicon solar cells, which have long been the standard for solar energy technology. This study, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adh3849\">published today<\/a> in <em>Science<\/em>, was conducted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ksc.kaust.edu.sa\/\">KAUST Solar Center<\/a> and holds the potential to design and develop more efficient solar cells for both Saudi Arabia and the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>While the study outlines the incredible advances in laboratory tests with perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells, most notably a 33 percent increase in power efficiency compared to other joint solar cells, the researchers emphasize that many steps must be accomplished before this technology can achieve real-world applications, like commercialization. While they note that challenges for scaling up the technology could only be a few years away, the cost is the primary challenge for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market for perovskite\/silicon tandems is expected to exceed $10 billion within a decade,\u201d said Dr. Stefaan De Wolf. \u201cKAUST is at the forefront of this revolution, laying the groundwork for affordable, accessible clean energy for all. The road towards a cleaner future has taken a massive step forward, as a team of researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}