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Start-up with MIT origins creates light-weight photovoltaic panels
The innovations and also technological innovations of Swift Solar have the chance to change the layout of solar photovoltaic innovation
Jun 16, 2020 // Technology, MIT, Sam Stranks, perovskites, lightweight solar panels, Swift Solar, Max Hoerantner, Vladimir Bulović
Portsmouth City Council solar generation hits new record thanks to sunny springtime
Portsmouth City Council has actually videotaped a record quantity of solar generation during the COVID-19 lockdown thanks to the sunniest spring on record.
Jun 15, 2020 // Plants, Commercial, Residential, UK, Europe, covid-19, Dave Ashmore
CEL opens tender to acquire 3 lakh multicrystalline solar cells
Only domestic manufacturers with multicrystalline solar cell manufacturing ability of a minimum 30 MW per year are qualified to apply. Bidding closes on June 27.
Jun 15, 2020 // Manufacturing News, India, solar cells, Asia, CEL, multi-crystalline
Tata Power to develop 120 MW solar project in Gujarat
The integrated power manufacturer's sustainable ability will certainly now swell to 3,457 MW. Of this, 2,634 MW (932 MW wind and 1702 MW solar) is operational as well as 820 MW solar (including the current 120 MW won from Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited) under execution.
Jun 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, tata power, Solar Project
How software solutions can relieve downturn results on area solar
Successful community solar development calls for harmonizing construction, financing, and also customer acquisition and also management. Digital administration systems can give programmers the devices to specifically handle these elements and obtain the most out of their jobs.
Jun 15, 2020 // Software, Opinions, USA, North America, BRIT GIBSON
Sonnedix, Natixis pen US$ 87m, 100MWp Chilean solar offer
Sonnedix and also French financier Natixis have actually closed senior financing facilities to bring forward as much as 100MWp of solar in Chile.
Jun 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, IPP, Natixis, Sonnedix, Axel Thiemann, Chile, South america, Latin america, latam, financing, pmgd
Britishvolt assigns brand-new CSO to support gigaplant ambitions
Battery producer Britishvolt has selected a new chief technique police officer as it remains to work towards the UK's first gigafactory.
Jun 15, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Storage, storage, UK, Battery Storage, Europe, Lithium ion, Lars Carlstrom, Britishvolt, Isobel Sheldon
EDF to optimize 59MW Zenobe portfolio
Zenobe has actually authorized an optimization agreement with EDF for 59MW of battery storage space.
Jun 15, 2020 // Storage, storage, UK, Battery Storage, EDF, Europe, utility scale, Zenobe, Grid Scale, Asset Optimisation, Stuart Fenner
JinkoSolar taking mono-module capacity to 25GW as shipment guidance remains at 18-20GW
Leading 'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) participant JinkoSolar has actually restated solar module delivery advice for 2020 to be in the 18-20GW range, while mentioning that its monocrystalline-based module ability would certainly get to the 25GW milestone by the end of the year.
Jun 15, 2020 // Manufacturing News, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, JinkoSolar, solar cell, n-type mono, monocrystalline wafer, PERC, Kangping Chen
Poland eyes future of bigger solar manage R.Power's 122MWp sell-off
Polish solar has actually apparently scored a landmark in recent days, with a profile readied to alter hands complying with the nation's "largest solar" bargain to day.
Jun 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Poland, pv power plants, Europe, eastern europe, solar finance, aberdeen standard investments, r.power, asi
'Vast bulk' of 8minute US solar pipeline will certainly be solar-plus-storage
The "huge majority" of tasks within 8minute Solar Energy's US-based solar PV pipeline will certainly co-locate the innovation with energy storage space, the designer has confirmed.
Jun 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, California, USA, storage, pv power plants, solar pv, solar-plus-storage, finance, North America, 8minute Solar Energy, colocation
A long way to opt for iron pyrite solar cells
A paper from Sweden has attempted to discover why the conversion performance of solar cells based upon cheap, abundant iron pyrites continues to suffer below 3% despite the evident optoelectronic guarantee of the material.
Jun 15, 2020 // Technology, Sweden, solar cells, Europe, Uppsala University
CIGS solar cell with IBC structure and up to 19.7% efficiency
Researchers in the Netherlands have actually shown an interdigitated back call copper-indium-gallium-selenide solar cell with a sub-micron thickness of 673nm. The device has a light weight aluminum oxide as well as magnesium fluoride-based anti-reflective coating.
Jun 15, 2020 // Technology, Europe, solar cell, Netherlands, efficiency, CIGS
Sweden closes discount scheme for roof PV
The government claimed programmers have another month to get the subsidy. It also delayed the project-completion due date from Dec. 31, 2020, to June 30, 2021. From following year, roof PV will likely be sustained by undefined tax obligation breaks.
Jun 15, 2020 // Plants, Commercial, Residential, Rooftop PV, Sweden, Europe, rooftop PV, Svensk Solenergi
Mexico increases grid fee for eco-friendly projects wrapped up prior to energy reforms
The brand-new action mainly applies to wind power as well as other renewable resource sources, as the majority of the country's solar ability was released after 2014, when the energy reforms were applied.
Jun 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, North America