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17MW/15MWh storage system for solar plant at gold mine in Mali

Mali is set to host one of the world’s largest off grid solar+storage projects, as a 30 MW solar plant will soon be coupled with a 17MW/15MWh storage facility to power the Fekola gold mine. Finland’s Wärtsilä will supply the battery.

Dec 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Africa, Mali, baywa r.e., Wärtsilä, Suntrace

LONGi signs a significant deal with Adani for PV module sales throughout next year

LONGi Solar, member of the so called super league of solar module suppliers, has concluded a sale and purchase contract with Indian Adani Green Energy to provide around 1.2 thousand megawatts of its highly efficient p-Type mono solar panels throughout the year to come.

Dec 4, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, China, pv power plants, c-si manufacturing, Asia, longi solar, monocrystalline wafer, Adani Green Energy

Top solar Developers - Mainstream energy companies pile into utility scale solar

Top utility-scale solar project developers with at least 0.9 GWAC cumulative commissioned capacity

Dec 4, 2019 // Market Research, Canadian Solar, First Solar, SunEdison, recurrent energy, top solar developers, Enerparc

Ireland funds construction of solar installation for water treatment in Gaza

Ireland, in collaboration with France, intends to invest 8.8m euros in the development of a 7.5-megawatt photovoltaic installation in Gaza for treatment of polluted water.

Dec 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ireland, Europe, water, west bank, gaza

Thermal energy storage integrated with photovoltaics

2m of Australian dollars will be allocated for Glaciem Cooling’s test of its innovative energy storage technology at three different sites.

Dec 4, 2019 // Storage, Thermal, Australia, Oceania, thermal, Glaciem Cooling Technologies, UniSA

Innovative material to boost performance of photovoltaic cells

A group of scientists from the Korean IBS, in collaboration with the Netherlands-based UvA, has created a new 2D material with atomic layer thickness, which offers super high energy conversion efficiency.

Dec 4, 2019 // Technology, Europe, Asia, Korea, Netherlands, PV cells, flexible PV, IBS

NICE Solar Energy & Manz set CIGS thin-film solar module efficiency record at 17.6%

The new total area efficiency record has been confirmed by TÜV Rheinland on a module surface area of 120 x 60 centimeters, using Manz production equipment at the NICE Solar Energy R&D facility in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.

Dec 4, 2019 // Technology, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, CIGS thin film, Manz AG, nice solar energy co, pv celltech

Scientific team from Japan finds the reason of OPV cell degradation under ultraviolet light

The researchers have found out that performance of organic solar cells drops by about a half after a hundred hours of light exposure. They explain the degradation by increasing resistance of OSC layer.

Dec 4, 2019 // Technology, Japan, Asia, OPV cells, PV cell

Student-made solar car approached Guinness World Record speed. They are still working to take the title

Cal Poly team members kept their eyes on El Mirage Lake’s horizon, waiting in anticipation. Just then, the futuristic vehicle they knew all too well emerged from a mirage and sped across the desert.

Dec 4, 2019 // Technology, Transport, Japan, Asia, Cal Poly, Ashiya University, PROVE, Guinness, Kristin Kraybill, Aaron Li, Lacey Davis

EDF Renewables and Shell sign 15-year PPA on 132-MW solar project

EDF Renewables North America and Shell Energy North America (SENA) signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) related to a 132 MWac tranche of the Palen Solar site known as Maverick 7 Solar Project. The project is expected to come online by the end of 2021.

Dec 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, shell, EDF Renewables, Dai Owen, Glenn Wright

Trade tariffs have caused ‘devastating harm’ to US solar industry

Tariffs introduced to imported solar cells and modules have caused “devastating harm” to the US solar industry, new analysis compiled by the Solar Energy Industries Association has claimed.

Dec 4, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, SEIA, Trump, North America, us, trade tariffs, suniva

Renova increases stake, commences operations on 80.8MW PV project in Japan

Renova has put forward a majority stake and switched on a 80.8MW PV installation located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Dec 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Japan, Asia, renova

Amazon is to develop the first large solar project in Spain

The corporate giant is creating three utility-scale solar arrays in Spain and USA within the framework of its green power plans.

Dec 3, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Amazon, Europe

Spain’s Balearic Islands assign 362 MW of solar in auction

The Spanish government has selected 55 solar installations in the procurement exercise. About 256 MW of the projects it awarded will be built on Mallorca, while Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera will host 61 MW, 6 MW and 2 MW of new capacity, respectively.

Dec 3, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, auction

Oil major uses COP spotlight to unveil net-zero ambitions

Spain’s former oil monopoly has pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 but admitted that current technologies would only be able to achieve "at least 70%" of that goal.

Dec 3, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, energy transition, cop25, repsol, big oil, net-zero, offset

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