Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the major utility in Northern California, was to announce a commitment Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors in the Mojave Desert.

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.

Private resident in Washington State sets up a hydrogen fuel cell system