While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can serve as a “continuous renewable power source for both day- and nighttime,” according to the study published this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

As Nigeria’s electricity challenges worsen, part of which recently manifested in the collapse of the national grid for the umpteenth time, causing widespread power outage across the country, strong indications emerged yesterday that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has commenced emergency funding of critical project that would address loopholes in the infrastructure linking the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with the nation’s eleven Distribution Companies (DisCos).