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Canadian Solar's 6 Spanish sites pass EIAs
Projects in Andalucían and Castilla y León regions have a total capacity of 685MW
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canadian Solar, Spain, Europe
GRS begins deal with 122MW Spanish PV project
Carmonita Norte solar site in Badajoz is being established for Fotowatio Renewable Ventures
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, GRS
Spain's Enerside inks deal to co-create 2.6-GW solar biz in Italy
Spanish integrated solar PV platform Enerside Energy SA (BME: ENRS) stated on Friday it had struck an offer to establish a joint business that will hold a pipe of 2.6 GW of solar projects in Italy.
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Italy, Europe, enerside
Entergy looks for nod for 225 MW of fresh solar in Louisiana
Entergy Louisiana LLC, a unit people utility Entergy Corp (NYSE: ETR), is seeking regulatory approval to include near 225 MW of new solar energy resources to its power generation mix, it claimed recently.
Mar 6, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Entergy, Louisiana
Qair inks PPAs for 60-MW of solar-storage projects in Mauritius
French renewable power producer Qair has secured power off-take deals for four hybrid solar and battery storage space projects in Mauritius that will add 60 MW of capacity to the neighborhood electricity grid.
Mar 6, 2023 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, PPA, Africa, Qair, Mauritius, solar-storage projects
Amp Energy claims not selling Australian portfolio
Canadian clean energy platform Amp Energy on Friday stated it is not running a sales procedure for its Australian organization, replying to a recent report that had actually mentioned it was seeking to sell its portfolio in the country.
Mar 6, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, AMP Energy
Carbon names location for prepared gigawatt manufacturing facility
French business Carbon SAS has named the southerly French community of Fos-sur-mer in the Bouches-du-Rhône department as the site for its scheduled solar manufacturing facility.
Mar 6, 2023 // Manufacturing News, France, Europe, Carbon SAS
Germany's PV capacity addition at record level in January following roof boom
For the month of January, 56,620 photovoltaic systems with an overall capacity of 780.7 megawatts (MW) were freshly reported to the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), of which 760.4 MW were supported by the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and 20.4 MW were unsubsidized systems.
Mar 6, 2023 // Rooftop PV, Germany, Europe
Researchers check out perovskite solar cells' toxicity as well as suggest risks may be overestimated
Scientists from Skoltech (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and also Medicinal Chemistry and also Zhengzhou Research Institute of HIT have examined the toxicity of materials used in perovskite solar cells.
Mar 6, 2023 // Technology, Skoltech, perovskite solar cells, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Zhengzhou Research Institute of HIT
Scientists check out the role of surface area texturing in perovskite-silicon tandem cells
Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.
Mar 6, 2023 // Technology, Germany, Europe, perovskite, silicon, HZB, solar sells, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
TotalEnergies acquires 200MW Gloss PV pipeline
The initial solar farms are anticipated to find on stream by 2025
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Poland, Europe, PV Power Plant, solar projects, TotalEnergies
In US, An Aerospace Manufacturing Hub Powered By Solar Micro Grid
Jackson County, West Virginia in the United States saw the top executives of 3 business on Saturday break ground on a project on more than 2,000 acres of land. BHE Renewables, a Berkshire Hathaway Energy organization, is establishing the home into a first-of-its-kind solar energy microgrid-powered industrial site.
Mar 6, 2023 // Plants, Grids, USA, North America, West Virginia, Inflation Reduction Act, BHE Renewables, Precision Castparts Corp., Aerospace hub, jackson county, solar micro-grid, titanium metals corporation
French firm IEL plans 90 MW solar park in northern Serbia
IEL from western France bought a spatial preparation document for its 90 MW solar park project near Čoka in Serbia's far north, near the Romanian border.
Mar 3, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, France, Europe, Serbia, Solar Park
Eleven bidders vie for support to establish solar manufacturing facilities in India
Eleven solar suppliers have submitted bids for INR 195 billion (USD 2.36 bn/EUR 2.23 bn) in moneying under India's Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme focused on releasing gigawatt-scale residential production capacity for high efficiency photovoltaic or pv (PV) modules, Mercom reported on Thursday, citing sources.
Mar 3, 2023 // Manufacturing News, India, Asia, Eleven
Statkraft blog posts 77.6% profit growth in 2022 on power rate bonanza
Norwegian state-owned utility Statkraft AS said on Thursday it had posted a net profit of NOK 28.6 billion (USD 2.74 bn/EUR 2.58 bn) for 2022, up by 77.6% year-on-year, on record-high revenues.
Mar 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Statkraft