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Daqo's Q2 profits treble Y-o-Y, lower polysilicon production costs result in record quarterly profits
Primarily driven by a 28% decrease in its polysilicon production cost, Daqo New Energy recorded its best manufacturing volume and also profits in Q2 2022.
Aug 4, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, financial results, Daqo New Energy, xinjiang daqo, polysilicon production
Tata Power subsidiary commissions 225MW hybrid project in Rajasthan, 25-year PPA signed
Tata Power subsidiary Tata Power Green Energy has actually commissioned a 225MW hybrid wind as well as solar project in the Indian solar hotbed state of Rajasthan.
Aug 4, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, pv power plants, hybrid, Asia, Rajasthan, tata power, tata, Discoms, hybrid projects, tata green power energy
Continued demand for residential solar sees SunPower bag record 19,700 new customers
Continued demand from Americans for rooftop solar has led residential solar installer SunPower to include a record all time high of 19,700 customers in Q2 2022, a 51% year-on-year increase.
Aug 4, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, financial results, North America, company results, residential rooftop
Australian government legislates for net zero by 2050, locks-in pledge to prevent future reversals
Last week, the Australian federal government proposed legislation that will certainly lock-in Australia's commitment to accomplish net zero by 2050 along with offering greater oversight as well as accountability over progression on climate change in a sharp separation from the previous administration.
Aug 4, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, Australia, Oceania, coal, legislation, net zero, legal
Top 10 Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturers
Aug 4, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Market Research, LG CHEM, Panasonic, lithium-ion battery, CATL, Samsung SDI, battery manufacturers, Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturers, Lithium-Ion Manufacturers, A123 Systems, Piedmont Lithium
Bill Gates fund purchases automated solar installation platform Terabase
Terabase Energy, a United States startup that gives software, automation and electronic deployment remedies, has increased USD 44 million (EUR 43m) in a financing round led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures to commercialise its innovation for automated solar plant construction.
Aug 3, 2022 // Software, Bill Gates, Terabase
Purcari Wineries installs 240 MWh solar plant at manufacturing site in Moldova
Bucharest-listed wine maker Purcari Wineries Group [BSE: WINE] claimed on Wednesday it has set up a 240 MWh photovoltaic or pv system on the rooftop of its Chateau Purcari manufacturing site in Moldova.
Aug 3, 2022 // Plants, Europe, Moldova, PV Power Plant, Purcari Wineries
New Tigo tool will certainly help identify powerline communications issues in design phase
Tigo has actually unveiled the Solar PLC Signal Integrity Tool and increased training product to encourage solar installers and EPCs to offer high-quality solar remedies for C&I solar system owners.
Aug 3, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, JD Dillon, Tigo
Inverted perovskite solar cell with 16.94% effectiveness
A US-Chinese research group has actually developed a perovskite solar cell with a hole-transporting material (HTM) based upon carrying out polyaniline (PANI) polymer. The tool showed substantially greater performance than a referral solar cell relying on an HTM made from commonly used PEDOT: PSS.
Aug 3, 2022 // Technology, USA, North America, efficiency, perovskite solar cell
Chalcopyrite solar cell for tandem applications, photocatalytic water splitting
Japanese scientists have built a chalcopyrite PV device for tandem solar cells and water splitting for hydrogen generation. The tool has a power conversion performance of 11.05%, an open-circuit voltage of 0.960 V, a short-circuit current density of 15.9 mA centimeters − 2, and a fill element of 72.4%.
Aug 3, 2022 // Technology, Japan, Asia, solar cell, efficiency, AIST
BASF signs 250MW of US wind, solar PPAs
Agreements with Dawn Solar and EDF Energy Services should help power 20 manufacturing sites
Aug 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, North America, BASF
Conservative PM candidates 'out of step with public on solar'
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss remarks on PV projects raise 'deep concern' at Solar Energy UK
Aug 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Chris Hewett
X-ELIO solar project secures Japanese support contract
Spanish developer's 15MW in Yamaguchi Prefecture is anticipated to be operational in the 2nd half of 2024
Aug 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, Asia, x-elio, Toshiaki Isoi
NextEnergy inks UK solar contracts
Two PV projects totalling 86MW were successful in the 4th Contracts for Difference Allocation Round
Aug 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, NextEnergy Solar Fund, Ross Grier
Spain launches new renewables auction with 1.8 GW of solar capacity sought
Spain has actually revealed its 4th renewables auction round, to be held on 22 November, with 1.8 GW of solar capacity sought to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country's power system.
Aug 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, auction, miteco, auctions and tenders, renewables auction, gas crisis