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The flurry of recent news in the battery storage room suggest the sharp uptrend for the market to come. Among other things, technology is looking past Lithium Ion batteries, and Sodium-Ion in particular has actually been in focus. Sandeep Maharia of Oorjan weighs in.

Huawei was recently picked by R.Power Group, among the largest gamers in the Polish PV market, to provide 390 MWp of its world-leading smart string inverters for many solar projects in Poland.

Research company Technavio predicts a solid growth for the global solar wafers market. The firm anticipates the solar photovoltaic wafer market to grow by 73.71 gigawatts from 2021 to 2026.

The City of Cape Town will certainly look for to procure as much as 300 MW of renewable resource through tendering procedures over the coming months, mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced today.

German football club SC Freiburg is planning to construct a 2.4-MWp solar power system on the roof covering of its stadium in the city of Freiburg which is readied to come to be the world's largest photovoltaic or pv installation on a stadium until now.

Bulgarian synthetic fibre manufacturer Yambolen [BUL: YAMB] said on Friday that its shareholders authorized its strategy to sign a 5.8 million euro ($6.6 million) contract with local PV Consult for the design and also building of a 9,998.46 kWp solar park in the community of Yambol, in the southeast of the nation.

Module maker and also energy solutions business Q CELLS has actually begun selling its new Q.Peak DUO-G10 panel in Europe, which the firm stated is its "most powerful solar module ever before".

The business now has a 281MW platform that includes 9 had and also handled projects.

Chinese supplier Bslbatt has revealed a modular lithium-ion battery that can be utilized for the off-grid storage of solar energy. The tool has a storage capacity ranging from 5.1 to 30.7 kWh as well as is asserted to provide constant procedure for approximately 6,000 charge cycles.

Swiss renewables developer Smartenergy Invest AG has actually begun the building and construction of a 63.5-MWp solar park in Portugal which will provide green electrical power to more than 26,000 homes.

French private equity as well as green facilities financier Andera Partners has set up a new platform focused on the development of renewable energy projects, targeting greater than 1 GW over 10 years.

A subsidiary of German power team Steag GmbH has taken into operation a 4.35-MWp solar plant that was improved the site of a previous NATO missile base in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

US renewables developer Energy Development Partners (EDP) has gotten a definitive concession to build and also run a 160-MW/200.2-MWp solar farm in the Dominican Republic.

In the laboratory, perovskite solar cells already reach effectiveness above 25 percent. Compared to silicon solar cells of similar effectiveness, the preliminary materials used in the former situation are more affordable and manufacturing methods are less complex. Until now, nonetheless, this has only been true on the little scale.

AMPYR Solar Europe's (ASE) has actually introduced a brand-new collaboration with CarVal Investors, which will certainly help it develop over 2GW of solar energy capacity by 2025.