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Gore Street makes US debut with 80MW storage spree
BESS owner has acquired 8 9.9 MW battery assets in Texas from PPST
Mar 10, 2022 // Storage, USA, North America, Gore Street
Lightsource BP compensations 300MW Colorado solar
Bighorn is the very first of two large-scale PV projects McCarthy Building Companies has developed for the designer
Mar 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Lightsource BP, North America, solar farm, Justin Peterson
Mass-Production all set 28.7% efficient solar cell fabricated in Germany
The record was set by energy solutions supplier Q CELLS as well as German research centre Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The 28.7% effectiveness was accomplished for a 2-terminal tandem solar cell combining a mass-production all set silicon bottom cell based on Q.ANTUM modern technology as well as a top-cell based upon perovskite innovation.
Mar 10, 2022 // Technology, Germany, Q CELLS, Europe, Steve Albrecht, Daniel Jeong, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Bernd Rech, silicon bottom cell, tandem cell efficiency
Trina Solar Picks Australia for Vertex S+ module launch
Trina Solar is introducing what it calls 'a higher power, greater effectiveness' Vertex S+ module in Australia. The advancement is driven by a record that was set last year for solar module setups in Australia in the roof solar section. Trina Solar claims that Vertex S+ is developed particularly for residential rooftops as well as for commercial as well as industrial (C&I) roofs.
Mar 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Trina Solar, rooftop solar, solar module, Solar Power, solar wafer, Todd Li, Vertex S+
Commerce extends review duration for Auxin Solar petition despite market lobbying
The US Department of Commerce has actually offered itself more time to examine an anti-circumvention petition from Auxin Solar despite cautions from greater than 200 business that recommended tariffs could create "tragic and also unneeded injury" to the country's PV industry.
Mar 10, 2022 // Manufacturing News, USA, North America, Auxin Solar, regulation, circumvention, countervailing duties, department of commerce, anti dumping, AD/CVD, SOLV Energy, import tariffs,, policy,, seia,
Celsia agreements meteocontrol for Latin American solar asset monitoring
German monitoring provider meteocontrol is to supply Colombian power supplier Celsia with centralised monitoring solutions for all its PV plants in Colombia as well as Central America.
Mar 10, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, South america, Colombia, celsia, meteocontrol, Central America, operations and maintenance, pv plant monitoring
United States Solar suppliers raise potential of 30GW mfg capacity for Biden Administration
Presently the module manufacturing capacity is just below 8GW in the USA. SEMA coalition says that passage of SEMA Act and also other policy assistance will certainly help the industry expand to 30GW by 2025. SEMA says that sector can likewise generate 18,000 direct and also 60,000 indirect production jobs.
Mar 10, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, Solar Energy, solar cells, North America, Joe Biden, solar module, Joe Manchin, Solar Power, kyrsten sinema, Build Back Better Act, SEMA Act, SEMA coalition, Solar Energy Manufacturing for America
Renewables added 2,400 MW of brand-new creating capacity monthly in 2021
According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of information newly released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as well as the United State Energy Info Administration (EIA), solar, wind and other renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower) provided 81.07% of new residential electrical creating capacity in 2021.
Mar 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Ken Bossong
United States utility-scale solar enhancements to drop this year as a result of unstable prices, supply chain issues
US solar deployment got to a record high in 2021, but with unpredictable product prices and also supply chain uncertainty leading to project delays and also cancellations, utility-scale enhancements are set to get this year.
Mar 10, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, ITC, Wood Mackenzie, North America, policy, Community Solar, commercial and industrial, deployment statistics, pricing
Enel, Santander companion to provide as well as finance solar, storage and also energy performance remedies
Italian utility Enel Group and Spanish bank Santander have actually consented to work together on solar PV, lithium battery storage space and energy efficiency solutions for the domestic and also business and also commercial (C&I) markets.
Mar 10, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Enel, enel green power, lithium, battery energy storage systems bess, Santander, commercial and industrial
Module prices to continue to be raised for 18 months at least as international demand skyrockets
Module prices are to remain elevated for the next 18 months at the very least, with any added manufacturing capacity readied to be swiftly ingested by rising need and also capacity addition outside of China considered high-risk, Finlay Colville, head of marketing research at Solar Media, has actually stated.
Mar 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, pv modules, polysilicon, module supply, polysilicon production, cop26, polysilicon supply, module prices, polysilicon pricing
Greenvolt gets half of 243-MW solar portfolio in Portugal
Portuguese renewables firm Greenvolt - Energias Renovaveis SA (ELI: GVOLT) has inked an offer to buy a 50% stake in a 243-MW Portuguese solar portfolio presently under growth by Infraventus.
Mar 9, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Portugal, Europe, Greenvolt, Joao Manso Neto
Utilizing the version of a pancake stack to make better solar cells
Scientists from the University of Calgary (UCalgary), with aid from colleagues at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), are one action better to creating solar electronics that are flexible, effective, as well as far better for the environment.
Mar 9, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, Canadian Light Source, University of Calgary, UCalgary, Todd Sutherland, Kim Thériault
Canadian solar safeguards two PPAs with Axpo
The ten-year off-take deals connect to set of Italian plants which are intended to start building and construction before 2023
Mar 9, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, Italy, PPA, Europe, Shawn Qu, Axpo Italia, Simone Demarchi
Albioma verifies KKR purchase talks
French power manufacturer operates biomass, solar as well as geothermal assets
Mar 9, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, France, Solar, Geothermal, Europe, Albioma, KKR, BIOMASS