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SECI tenders another 1.2 GW of grid-connected solar projects across India
Bidders can pitch for up to 300 MW of generation capacity per project with the deadline for proposals on February 4. The eighth tranche of inter-state transmission system program capacity offered by the Solar Energy Corporation of India comes with a solar energy price ceiling of Rs2.78/kWh.
Jan 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, India, SECI, tender, Asia
Saudi Arabia launches 1.2 GW solar tender
With the third procurement round of the kingdom’s National Renewable Energy Program, the Renewable Energy Project Development Office is tendering four large-scale solar projects. Successful bidders will have to include at least 17% local content in their facilities.
Jan 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Saudi Arabia, tender, Asia, REPDO
Enhanced Capital finances solar projects with capacity of 10.25MW
Enhanced Capital in cooperation with GSPP has funded 10.25-megawatt solar power projects.
Jan 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, International, Enhanced Capital
APDCL invites to bid for 30MW Assam-based solar projects
Indian APDCL has floated a tender for 30 megawatts of solar capacity in three Assam’s districts. The tender is being held under the second phase of the CPSU scheme.
Jan 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, tender, Asia, Assam, APDCL
ReneSola to sell 15MW Hungary-based solar project portfolio
U.S.’s solar developer ReneSola is selling its 15-megawatt portfolio of Hungarian solar power projects under development to Danish investor Obton.
Jan 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Hungary, Europe, North America, renesola, Obtan
Large scale solar passed the 200-GWAC milestone in 2019
Large scale solar passed the 200-GWAC milestone in 2019, following another year of record deployment; according to preliminary figures released today by Wiki-Solar. New installations topped 40-GWAC in 2019 making it the tenth consecutive year of rising figures
Jan 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Market Research
Australian solar company joins virtual power plant push
Solar Service Group to market energy app to more than 8,000 battery users.
Jan 9, 2020 // Storage, Software, Energy, TESLA, battery, Evergen, Ben Hutt, virtual power plant
Cost-efficient solar cells for space application
Scientists from American National Renewable Energy Lab have discovered a new technology to cut the costs of manufacturing of a very efficient (but at the same time extremely costly) GaAs solar cell.
Jan 9, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, China, solar cells, Asia, North America
American scientists speed up evaporation of wastewater
A group of scientists from Berkeley Laboratory has found out how to increase evaporation twice with the help of solar energy, based on natural properties of water.
Jan 9, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America
American scientists reverse electron’s way in natural solar cells
A group of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and WashU have succeeded in leading electrons along the way they never take in the nature. This has allowed the scientists to better understand the initial processes taking place in the early photosynthesis history.
Jan 8, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, PNAS
Highly-efficient sulphur-lithium battery invented in Australia
A scientific group from Australia’s top research university has invented a new sulphur lithium battery claimed to be the most efficient of the kind. The innovative solution is expected to increase EVs’ driving range to a thousand kilometers or even more.
Jan 8, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Monash University, sulphur-lithium battery
Kyocera launches industry-first SemiSolid batteries
Kyocera is introducing an innovative SemiSolid cell architecture created by US’s battery company 24M. The Japan-based giant will initiate the product’s entrance to the market. The new solution considerably improves batt performance, at the same time enabling significant production savings.
Jan 8, 2020 // Storage, USA, Japan, Kyocera, Asia, North America
A CIGS perovskite tandem solar cell with potential for 27.5% efficiency
Lithuanian researchers claim to have dramatically improved the performance of a perovskite-based copper indium gallium selenide solar cell they developed with the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. The improved efficiency, they claim, was achieved thanks to one of the most recently developed monolayers used for experiments on the cell.
Jan 8, 2020 // Technology, Japan, Europe, Asia, solar cell, perovskite, Lithuania, CIGS, Kaunas
JA Solar starts ramping 1.6GW monocrystalline ingot capacity expansion project
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar has started ramping a 1.6GW monocrystalline ingot production expansion project at its main ingot production plant in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.
Jan 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, JA Solar, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, investment, monocrystalline wafer
New Obton-Shannon Energy JV to spend €300m on 500MW of PV in Ireland
Danish renewables investor and developer Obton Energy has formed a joint venture with Irish solar developer Shannon Energy to develop 500MW of solar in Ireland over five years.
Jan 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Ireland, Europe, obton, ress 1, joint venture, shannon energy, Gerry Shannon, Anders Marcus
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