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Solar Sector Sets Records in 2020, On Course to Quadruple by 2030
The UNITED STATE solar market expanded 43% and also mounted a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of capacity in 2020, according to the UNITED STATE Solar Market Understanding 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and also Wood Mackenzie.
Mar 16, 2021 // Market Research, USA, SEIA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Michelle Davis
Africa investor introduces Burkina Faso PV press
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund to establish 30MW solar project
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Africa, Burkina Faso, Solar Project, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, Paromita Chatterjee
Duke Energy selects sites for 150MW of solar
75MW Fort Green project to be improved a previous mine and 75MW Bay Trail is sited at a future mine area
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Duke Energy Florida, Melissa Seixas
Europe To Come to be Globe's Secondly Largest Li-ion Battery Producer By 2025
Europe is good to go to come to be the world's second-largest maker of lithium-ion battery cell by 2025, claimed a European Commission (EC) vice-president, although some crucial obstacles need to be dealt with.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Europe, EC Vice President, Energy Storage Europe, European Comission, Li-ion Battery Manufacture, Maroš Šefčovič
Twisting, flexible crystals essential to solar power manufacturing
Scientists at Duke University have actually revealed long-hidden molecular characteristics that supply preferable properties for solar energy and heat energy applications to an interesting class of products called halide perovskites.
Mar 16, 2021 // Technology, Solar Energy, perovskite, Duke University, Olivier Delaire, Volker Blum
Belectric Solar to develop 100 megawatt plant in India
German EPC firm Belectric Solar & Battery GmbH has actually been commissioned by Cleantech Solar to build a solar project in India.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, PV Power Plant, Belectric Solar
Scenic Hill Solar will build 4.8-MW tracker solar project to power Arkansas bank
Bank OZK got approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to build a solar energy plant that is anticipated to have a producing capability of 4.8-MWdc.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Tim Hicks, Solar Project, tracker solar project
UNITED STATE Battery updates AGM deep-cycle line of batteries
U.S. Battery Production has actually launched its new and enhanced line of AGM Deep-Cycle batteries especially created to give raised deep-cycling efficiency.
Mar 16, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, AGM Deep-Cycle batteries, Zachary Cox, Don Wallace
HOMER Energy by UL software application currently efficient in modeling crossbreed utility-scale systems
HOMER Energy by UL, global leader in the advancement of standard-setting energy modeling software, announced its most recent service-- HOMER Front + UL Analysis. The new capability assists energy programmers design and enhance the intricacies of front-of-the-meter utility-scale renewable crossbreed power systems that include wind, solar as well as battery energy storage space systems (BESS).
Mar 16, 2021 // Software, USA, North America, HOMER Energy, Peter Lilienthal, UL
WEC Energy Group subsidiaries recommend 325-MW solar + storage project in Wisconsin
We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service (WPS), subsidiaries of WEC Energy Group, are advancing prepare for a new 325-MW solar as well as battery storage project. The Darien Solar Energy Center is the company's second suggested large-scale solar and battery project announced this year.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Wisconsin, WEC Energy Group, North America, solar + storage project, Tom Metcalfe
Dynapower energy storage space systems included in Energy Toolbase's Developer modeling system
Energy Toolbase's Acumen EMS controls software program is now integrated with Dynapower's energy storage space solutions.
Mar 16, 2021 // Storage, Software, Dynapower, Energy Toolbase, Scott D’Ambrosio, Chris Larsen
FPL submits four-year rate proposal enabling 894MW of solar growth
United States utility Florida Power & Light (FPL) has submitted a four-year rate plan that could see 894MW of solar PV systems contributed to the grid.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar plus storage, North America, NextEra Energy, Eric Silagy, Community Solar, utility solar, FPL, florida power and light, rate hike
Masdar and also Ethiopia indication agreement to develop 500MW of solar
Abu Dhabi-based renewables company Masdar is proceeding its global development with brand-new plans to develop 500MW of solar in Ethiopia through a partnership with the country's federal government.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Masdar, Ethiopia, Africa, Masdar Clean Energy, public private partnerships
TZS targeting 55GW of 210mm mono wafer ability by end of 2021
Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor (TZS) is establishing its sights on achieving a 150% rise in 210mm monocrystalline wafer capacity by the end of 2021.
Mar 16, 2021 // Manufacturing News, pv modules, solar cell, sunpower corporation, tianjin zhonghuan semiconductor tzs, p-type mono perc, p-type mono wafers, maxeon solar technologies ltd
Records roll as 'historic' 2020 United States solar deployment tees up decade of growth
The US solar industry smashed multiple records in 2020 as the sector recorded an "historic" 4th quarter, teeing up an honest decade where installations are anticipated to more than quadruple.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, woodmac, North America, investment tax credit, policy, regulation, us solar, woodmackenzie