QuantaSol is a privately funded company providing third generation solar cells for use in concentrating PV systems. The company has reported having achieved 28.3% efficiency as tested by the Fraunhofer ISE. Green investors should follow closely the news about this company as it might well make the next big breakthrough in solar energy business.

I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. –Thomas Alva Edison During the next decades, most of the traditional energy resources (oil, gas, uranium, coal) will reach the peak of their use. In [...]

According to Munich Re, the electricity produced in solar thermal power plants in North Africa and transported from there to Europe as a possibility that is no longer a distant vision but rather an technologically achievable possibility.