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DSSC is solar based electrical energy with dye organic matter as sensitizer. The organic sensitizer used to be a freshly extracted pigment. This study used organic dye that had previously been prepared in dry form. This dry dye is more practical to be used in DSSC without taking a long time for extraction. The organic dye derived from Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) leaves. The leave’s extract was dried by using a foam mat drying method with the fillers of dextrin (10% w/v) and gum Arabic (10% w/v), and egg white (2% w/v) as a foaming agent. The application of dried dye was arranged in 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10% (w/v, ethanol solvent), and a freshly prepared extract was also performed as a control. The results showed that the highest amount (0.63 mg/L) of chlorophyll content was in DSSC with the application of 10% (w/v) dried dye. The best DSSC electrical performance was found in the treatment of 4% dried dye with the electrical characteristics including: Voc: 589 mV, Isc: 0.0408 mA, Vmax: 230 mV, Imax: 0.0347, fill factor: 0.332, Output: 7.98 mW and efficiency: 4.95%.