In China, China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) has launched the world's first solar power plant using the mineral perovskite instead of silicon.
The capacity of the new station reaches 1 MW, Liga.net reports.
"Perovskite, which is a new material for solar cells, offers advantages such as high efficiency, stability and low cost, and is the future direction of solar panel development," CTG said.
It is noted that silicon is used to make traditional solar panels. Perovskite materials, like silicon, have semiconducting properties, but potentially have better efficiency. Also, this mineral is cheap and easy to manufacture. It has the same crystal structure as calcium titanate.
The material added that the unique solar power plant is located in the northern autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and consists of 11,200 solar panels. Its area reaches 27,000 m2.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that China launched the world's largest solar power plant Huadian Tianjin Haijing with a capacity of 1000 MW. The SPP is located on the reservoir of a salt deposit, and the project covers integrated salt extraction, electricity generation and fishing.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Spain, the energy company Soleolico created the world's first wind turbine with solar panels, the productivity of which is 25% higher than that of other wind turbines.
