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Solar ETF skyrockets as Biden leads in surveys. Various other teams that might benefit from a Democratic win
Invesco's Solar ETF (TAN) has turned into one of the market's best exchange-traded funds, up practically 139% year to day as well as checking as former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in presidential election surveys.
Oct 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, National Grid, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Eaton, American Tower, Invesco’s Solar ETF, ETF Edge, DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF, Crown Castle International, Enbridge, Vinci, Global X’s U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF, Fastenal,, Rockwell Automation, United Rentals, Kansas City Southern
EDF acquires 4.5 GW US solar pipeline, targets more development in PJM market
EDF Renewables North America has acquired a pipe of more than 20 US solar possessions from project designer Geenex Solar, amounting to more than 4.5 GW of ability.
Oct 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, USA, PJM, EDF, North America, project acquisition, geenex solar, Georg Veit
Bifacial panels likely to stay exempt from Section 201 tariffs
US President Donald Trump's plan to reverse the exemption for bifacial panels within Section 201 profession tariffs look readied to be warded off once more.
Oct 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, Donald Trump, North America, section 201, regulation, bifacial exemption, import tariffs, bifacial tariffs
Daqo polysilicon demand hit by 'significant rise' in ASPs
Significant polysilicon manufacturer Daqo New Energy has been compelled to revise down assisted polysilicon sales quantities in the 3rd quarter of 2020, as a result of customers delaying investing in orders as market prices hit US$ 12.5/ kg.
Oct 19, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, polysilicon, c-si manufacturing, Asia, Daqo, monocrystalline wafer
China completes its biggest solar power plant
A 2.2 GW solar PV plant has actually been linked to the grid in Qinghai province by Huanghe Hydropower Development.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, China, Asia, PV Power Plant
American Tower turns on solar plant to provide Brazil fiber grid
Telecommunications infrastructure firm American Tower has begun utilizing a solar plant constructed by Brazil's CGC Energia to supply its neighborhood fiber networks.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, American Tower, CGC Energia, Tom Bartlett
Elgin Energy to progress with 49.9 MW solar farm
Elgin Energy to progress with 49.9 MW solar farm
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, UK, Europe, Elgin Energy
Harmony Energy targets portfolio growth after small share sale
Harmony Energy is establishing its sights on quickly broadening its profile of projects in the UK, thanks to a financial investment from Ritchie Bland Energy (RBE).
Oct 16, 2020 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, Harmony Energy, Peter Kavanagh
Scatec Solar to get hydropower developer, proclaims floating solar possibility
Scatec Solar has actually struck a US$ 1.1 billion bargain to obtain leading hydropower developer SN Power, proclaiming the capacity for floating solar on hydro storage tanks.
Oct 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, Scatec Solar, floating PV, m&a, sn power, norfund, utility-scale solar,, hydro power,
Sterling and Wilson Wins Solar Plus Battery Storage Contract
Sterling and Wilson has actually announced that its HES department has signed an EPC agreement to construct a solar plus battery storage crossbreed nuclear power plant in Niger.
Oct 16, 2020 // Storage, solar plus storage, hybrid, Africa, International, Niger, sterling and wilson, Deepak Thakur
TransAlta Announces Commercial Operation of Alberta's First Utility Scale Battery Storage Project
TransAlta Renewables has introduced that its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage space project (WindCharger) started industrial procedure on October 15, 2020. WindCharger is Alberta's very first utility-scale, lithium-ion energy storage space project and makes use of Tesla Megapack technology.
Oct 16, 2020 // Storage, Canada, ENERGY STORAGE, North America, battery storage projects, Storage Project, TransAlta Renewables, WindCharger, John Kousinioris
Fluence acquires Advanced Microgrid Solutions' bidding process software program for utility-scale storage space and renewables
Fluence, a Siemens and also AES firm, announced it has actually obtained the digital intelligence system of AMS, a carrier of A.I.-enabled enhanced bidding software program for utility-scale storage and generation possessions.
Oct 16, 2020 // Software, Siemens, Fluence, AES company, Brett Galura, Seyed Madaeni
Penn State's 70-MW solar project portfolio is now creating power and sustaining sheep grazing
Penn State University has actually begun buying sustainable power produced from 3 Lightsource bp solar farms that have actually finished building and construction in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The projects were launched in 2019 upon the finalizing of a 70-MW PPA under which Penn State would certainly purchase 100% of the electricity created by the projects created and also operated by Lightsource bp.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Lightsource BP, Pennsylvania, North America, penn state university, Kevin Smith, Solar Project, David Gray, Eric Barron, Emilie Wangerman
NJR Clean Energy Ventures completes 1.5-MW solar project on New Jersey landfill
NJR Clean Energy Ventures (NJRCEV), the tidy energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, finished a 1.5-MW ground-mounted solar project at the former municipal land fill in Hopatcong, New Jersey. Including nearly 4,000 solar panels, the fixed-tilt range is expected to give sufficient tidy energy to power 230 residences each year.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, New Jersey, North America, Solar Project, NJR Clean Energy Ventures, Steve Westhoven, Michael Francis
LiU scientists initially to create an organic battery
Scientists at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have for the first time showed an organic battery. It is of a kind called a "redox flow battery", with a big capability that can be utilized to store energy from wind generators as well as solar cells, and also as a power bank for cars.
Oct 16, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Sweden, Europe, Linkoping University, organic battery, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Redox flow batteries, Mikhail Vagin, Viktor Gueskine