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Solar racking provider Unirac secures extra PE companies as investors
Middle-market personal equity firm Greenbelt Capital Partners has led a bulk recapitalisation investment of an undisclosed amount in US solar racking and also mounting solutions provider Unirac Inc
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Unirac, Greenbelt Capital Partners, Sam Graham
Austria seeks to award 700 MW of solar, 190 MW of wind
Austria is readied to open up a tender with a target date of December 13, seeking to assign 700 MW of solar, 190 MW of wind as well as 7.5 MWel of biomass capacity.
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Austria
Norwich Solar celebrates 500-kW solar install for Vermont drug store
Norwich Solar celebrated completion of its 45th community solar installation previously this summer in Fairlee, Vermont.
Oct 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Norwich Solar
Leeward starts building at 100MW US solar site
Oak Trail plan in North Carolina will supply Verizon under long-term PPA deal
Oct 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, First Solar, North America, leeward renewable energy, LRE, Sam Mangrum, BLUE RIDGE POWER
X-ELIO receives environmental authorization for Spanish solar plant
The new PV plant is anticipated to produce 748,000 MWh in its first year
Oct 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, x-elio, PV Power Plant
Opdenergy transfers two Spanish solar projects to Bruc Energy
The assets have actually an incorporated capacity of 81MW
Oct 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, PV Power Plant, OPDEnergy, Bruc Energy
Impax, BNRG eye 1.6 GW Irish and also United States solar opportunities
Team plans to take 70MW of projects in Maine into construction in coming months
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, BNRG, North America, impax
EDPR obtains majority stake in German solar company
Acquisition of 70% shareholding in Kronos provides developer grip in Germany as well as the Netherlands
Oct 7, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, Europe, Netherlands, EDPR, KRONOS
LevelTen Energy to Expand Asset Marketplace to Europe
LevelTen Energy, a leading service provider of renewable purchase facilities, today revealed the European development of the LevelTen Asset Marketplace, an online platform for dealing renewable resource assets.
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, PPA, Iberdrola, LevelTen Energy, m&a, Renewable Energy, Aura Power, Black Mountain Energy Storage
Fluence, TransnetBW To Build 250 MW Energy Storage System
The 250 MW Netzbooster battery-based energy storage system will be found at Kupferzell, Germany. The Netzbooster project is prepared for completion in 2025 as well as will certainly minimize operating prices of Germany's transmission system.
Oct 7, 2022 // Storage, Fluence, Paul McCusker, REPowerEU, Werner Götz, Fluence Energy GmbH, Kupferzell, Markus Meyer, Netzbooster battery-based energy storage, storage-as-transmission project, TransnetBW, TSO
Rio Tinto, Voltalia to Supply Solar Power to Richards Bay Minerals
The solar power will certainly be used for the operations at KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Voltalia's solar project will certainly be full by 2024 and will certainly supply an annual generation capacity of approximately 300GWh.
Oct 7, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Voltalia, Sebastien Clerc, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, integrated resource plan, Black Economic Empowerment, Bolobedu Solar PV, KwaZulu-Natal, RBM, Richard’s Bay Minerals, Sinead Kaufman, South African mineral company
ONE To Invest $1.6 20 GWh In Michigan Cell Manufacturing Facility
The $1.6 billion investment by ONE would create over 2,100 jobs in Van Buren Township as well as protect the future of mobility and also electrification in Michigan. As soon as operational it will have a yearly complete capacity of 20 GWh by the end of 2027 which will certainly be equivalent to 200,000 electric vehicle battery packs yearly.
Oct 7, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, ENERGY STORAGE, lfp, Battery Cell, Jerry Norcia, energy storage technology, Gretchen Whitmer, low cost energy, ONE Circle, Our Next Energy, Van Buren Township
Green Genius inks Polish solar offtake
PPA with Respect Energy is for output comparable to 21MW from a portfolio of projects incomplete
Oct 6, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, PPA, Poland, Europe, Green Genius
Investment in Renewable Energy Demands to Quadruple by 2030
Analysts at BloombergNEF estimate that funding for low-carbon energy sources need to rise to $4 for each $1 assigned to fossil fuels.
Oct 6, 2022 // Markets & Finance News
Perovskite solar cell with copper electrode hits 20.1% performance
Chinese scientists have actually developed a brand-new solar cell with a planar n-i-p framework and also an indium tin oxide (ITO) substratum. It additionally has a tin( IV) oxide (SnO2) barrier layer, a perovskite layer, a hole transport layer (HTL), and also a layer made of copper. It had the ability to keep around 92% of its preliminary effectiveness after 1,000 hours.
Oct 6, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, efficiency, Chine, perovskite solar cell