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Nexamp to create 7 community solar projects in Hawaii for LMI residents
Nexamp has actually been picked to develop 7 new shared solar projects in Hawaii-- three on Hawaii Island, 3 on Maui as well as one on Oahu. These projects belong to Hawaiian Electric's community-based renewable resource (CBRE) program that helps lower electrical power prices for low- and also moderate-income (LMI) subscribers who are unable to mount rooftop solar.
Dec 15, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Hawaii, North America, Nexamp, Solar Project
Collecting solar energy from both sides: New process boosts performance of bifacial CIGS thin film solar cell
The suggestion is as uncomplicated as it is basic: If I can collect both direct sunlight along with its reflection through the rear end of my solar cell, this need to enhance the yield of energy the cell creates.
Dec 15, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, efficiency, Ayodhya N. Tiwari
Shell scoops 2GW Spanish solar platform
GTC's 10 "medium maturity" projects have actually safeguarded land exclusivity legal rights and demonstrated feasibility
Dec 15, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, shell
BP Ventures invests in Oz solar tech company
Financial investment will assist 5B Holdings accelerate commercialisation of its system for accelerating panel installations
Dec 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Chris McGrath, BP Ventures, Johnathan Stone
Neoen turns sod on 272MW Portuguese solar
Facility situated in the municipality of Azambuja is slated for commissioning in early 2024
Dec 15, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Portugal, Europe, neoen, PV Power Plant, Bernardo dos Santos
Better Energy lands multi-million euro pension fund investment
Solar developer will utilize funds from ATP scale production throughout Nordics and Poland
Dec 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Sweden, Poland, Europe, Better Energy
Battery Storage Player Element Energy Secures $28 Mn Fresh Funding
The round has actually been co-led by among the largest clean energy generation firms and also Cohort Ventures. The financing give growth funding for continued investment in assets, logistics and facilities related to upcoming utility-scale deployments of second-life EV batteries.
Dec 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Prelude Ventures, battery management system, battery management technology, BMS, Cohort Ventures, Tony Stratakos, Edison International, Element Energy, LG Technology Ventures, Marvell Technology, Matt Murphy, Radar Partners, Series B financing
Japan Makes Installation of Solar Panels Have To for New House in Tokyo
The new regulation will certainly need around 50 major designers and building contractors to guarantee that their residences having an area of 2,000 square metres or 21,500 square feet to be fitted with photovoltaic panels. The city government of Tokyo metropolitan wishes to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the city to half by the end of this decade.
Dec 15, 2022 // Residential, Rooftop PV, Japan, Asia, carbon emissions, Governor of Tokyo, Risako Narikiyo, Solar Power Panels, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo rooftop solar, Tomin First no Kai, Yuriko Koike
Microsoft, Nike sign up for 2.5-MW Oregon community solar
Microsoft, Nike and Common Energy have actually partnered to register for Standard Solar's first community solar project in Oregon. The 2.5-MW Skyward Community Solar project, located in Clackamas County, will certainly produce 3.6 million kWh of clean energy every year, which will be fed into the wider electrical grid.
Dec 14, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, Microsoft, North America, Nike, Katie Ross
Solar Inventions snags global patents for reduced-silver production process
After obtaining its first U.S. patent last year for its solar manufacturing process, Solar Inventions has actually been provided new patents in China and Israel and also is working with added international accessibility.
Dec 14, 2022 // Manufacturing News, USA, China, Asia, North America, Ben Damiani
AI makes rooftop solar panels extra efficient
Rooftop solar panels come to be a lot more energy efficient if placed precisely
Dec 14, 2022 // Technology, Rooftop PV, University of Gävle, Mohammad Aslani, Rooftop solar panel
Making 'green' energy from living plant 'bio-solar cells'
Though plants can act as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they're rarely taken into consideration to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons normally carried within plant cells, scientists can produce electricity as part of a "green," biological solar cell.
Dec 14, 2022 // Technology, bio-solar cells
Scientists enhance stability of new material for solar cells
New materials that can both harvest and also emit light deal interesting possibility for modern technologies that vary from solar cells to television and display screens. In a new research, scientists have actually developed a new way of enhancing the stability and performance of a particular kind of these materials, called perovskites. A paper based upon the research study has actually been released in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
Dec 14, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Missouri, University of Western Cape in South Africa
KGAL, EIT InnoEnergy type hydrogen pact
Strategy to buy European projects that have actually successfully proceeded through very early development
Dec 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Solar to Fuel, hydrogen, eit innoenergy, KGAL
Acciona Energia swoops on Texas battery portfolio
Developer will acquire a 190MW BESS due online in Q1 2023 plus 6 other BESS projects from QCells
Dec 14, 2022 // Storage, USA, North America, acciona energia