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Raptor Maps closes US$ 22m Series B, funds used for hiring and also product development
Solar software company Raptor Maps has closed a US$ 22 million Series B increase that will be made use of to more create its Raptor Solar software platform, created to allow utility-scale as well as commercial as well as industrial (C&I) solar companies to make better use their data.
Apr 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Raptor Maps, North America, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, fundraising, maps, hiring, product development, raptor solar
Next-generation solar cells get to 24% efficiency
A German research study team has developed a tandem solar cell that gets to 24 percent efficiency-- measured according to the fraction of photons exchanged electricity (i.e., electrons).
Apr 14, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cells, perovskite, efficiency, University of Cologne
Engineers enlist AI to aid scale up innovative solar cell production
Perovskites are a household of materials that are currently the leading challenger to potentially replace today's silicon-based solar photovoltaics.
Apr 14, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cell, perovskite, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Reinhold Dauskardt, Zhe Liu
Statkraft gains planning permission for 50MW Stargoose solar farm
Statkraft has acquired planning permission for its 50MW Stargoose solar farm from South Cambridgeshire Planning Committee.
Apr 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Statkraft, solar farm, Gareth Hawkins
Neoen inks 70MW Australian offtake agreement
The French designer authorized a deal with AGL Energy to offload power from its 100MW Capital Battery
Apr 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, neoen, Oceania
EDPR strikes 156MW United States PPA with Meta
Electricity will come from the 240MW Cattlemen solar farm in Texas
Apr 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, EDPR, meta, PPAusa
US utility brings 50MW Texas solar online
Brightside project covers 174 hectares of land and consists of 147,732 PV panels
Apr 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Vistra
NV Energy looking for renewables projects in latest RFP
Nevada utility NV Energy has issued an ask for propositions (RFP) for renewables projects to contribute to its portfolio in the state.
Apr 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, Nevada, North America, rfp, nv energy, lss usa
Nevada gold mining operation turns to 200MW PV project to decarbonise
Thin film maker First Solar is to provide Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) with 200MW of solar modules to power its activities in the state, as mining firms everywhere increasingly want to clean up their procedures.
Apr 14, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, mining, North America, barrick gold corporation, nevada gold mines
First Solar lands 750MW module manage Origis Energy as it considers US manufacturing build out
Origis Energy has actually purchased 750MW of solar modules from thin film supplier First Solar, bringing the overall quantity of modules Origis has procured from the company to 1.5 GW.
Apr 14, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, solar pv, pv modules, thin film, North America, Origis Energy, origis, cadtel
Latest German solar auction awards 1.1 GW of PV projects as average price sides upwards
The most up to date solar tender in Germany has actually awarded contracts for simply over 1GW of PV projects, but experienced a minor uptick in prices contrasted to the previous round.
Apr 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Germany, Europe, solar auction, finance, lss eu, lss europe
Maxeon assigns new board chairman
Solar module distributor Maxeon Solar Technologies has actually selected Donald Colvin as its brand-new chairman of the board of directors, doing well Kevin Kennedy.
Apr 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Maxeon, Maxeon Solar Technologies, solar manufacturer, appointments, board of directors
Shizen Energy to create 33.4 MWp of solar power in Brazil
Japanese renewables designer Shizen Energy Inc revealed today it has gotten to an arrangement to construct 33.4 MWp of solar energy capacity for Brazilian renewable resource business Origo Energia.
Apr 13, 2022 // Plants, South america, Brazil, PV Power Plant, Shizen Energy
Century PlyBoard Goes with GoodWe For 2.8 MW Solar Project
Century Plyboard Industries Limited, a leading plyboard manufacturer has actually selected GoodWe's HT-250KW inverters for its solar plant at the manufacturing site in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The inverters perseverance a 2.8 MW capacity plant that will offer the needs of the manufacturing facility.
Apr 13, 2022 // Plants, Inverters, India, Asia, GoodWe, Centuty Plyboard, corporate sustainability, HT 250 kW inverters, Solar Punjab
Tesvolt's battery storage orders up 195% among energy crisis and Ukraine invasion
Energy storage system (ESS) company Tesvolt says that it saw 195% year-on-year growth in orders during March, as services seek to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels especially because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Apr 13, 2022 // Storage, Germany, Ukraine, Europe, EV, Tesvolt, ESS, energy storage system