The Biden administration and DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced over $80 million in funding to facilitate solar panel manufacturing in...
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Shading of just a few cells in a solar panel (module) can stop the entire module from working. These shading...
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From Pique Action: We know that to effectively phase out fossil fuels, we need to optimize different types of renewable...
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This artfully animated video from Electric Future highlights our #perovskite solar cell technology and our vision for the future of solar. Check it...
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On March 8, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and his team visited Stanford University to learn about...
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On October 6, the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced new funding awards under its “BRIDGE 2020: Bringing Rapid Innovation Development...
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This engagement forum, “Research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system,” was conceived as an opportunity for the MIT community to...
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This week’s guest is Joel Jean, Co-Founder & CEO of Swift Solar. Before joining Swift, Joel served as Executive Director...
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In a talk titled Perovskites at the Edge of Tomorrow, Swift Solar co-founder and CEO Joel Jean shares a founder’s...
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Solar PV technology company Swift Solar said it secured more than $8 million in Series Seed 2 funding, with an...
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Solar PV technology company Swift Solar announced today that it secured more than $8 million in...
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This month Swift Solar is closing a Series Seed-2 financing round, with expected new investments totaling $9.6M. In this Seed-2...
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Swift co-founders Tomas Leijtens, Giles Eperon, and Sam Stranks were named on this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list. The list,...
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Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have come up with a new solar photovoltaic technology. It uses materials...
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Currently, several other companies are targeting single-junction perovskite panels and perovskite-silicon tandems, but Swift Solar is the only one developing...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s all-perovskite tandem technology could open up an entirely new solar-energy application: vehicles powered directly by photovoltaics...
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The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in...
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An enormous transition is underway across the electric grid. Power plants that run on fossil fuels are being replaced by...
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Joel Jean PhD ’17 spent two years working on The Future of Solar Energy, a report published by the MIT Energy...
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Some of US-MAP’s commercial partners are already thinking about how to get the first perovskite solar panels out into the...
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According to Max Hoerantner, co-founder of Swift Solar, a San Francisco start-up, there are only about 10 start-up firms in...
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“Perovskites have the potential to become a game-changer for solar and many other fields,” said Martin Keller, director of NREL....
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Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in...
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(Translated from German) Swift Solar: How an Austrian builds a solar startup in Silicon Valley He was at ETH Zurich,...
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A new study shows that, contrary to widespread belief within the solar power industry, new kinds of solar cells and...
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received more than $3.2 million from the Technology Commercialization Fund within the U.S. Department...
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No solar material has managed to supplant silicon. Perovskites, which are far cheaper and can be made into flexible modules,...
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Swift Solar is a U.S. startup developing a new class of efficient, lightweight, and flexible solar products based on perovskite...
Read MoreAcross the globe, a clutch of companies from Oxford, England to Redwood City, Calif. are working to commercialize a new...
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Someday, solar panels may be light and cheap enough that they could be hung on a clothesline, thanks to a...
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