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Bhutan launches ground-mounted PV tender
The nationwide utility has kicked off a procurement round to construct the country's very first significant PV project.
Sep 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, tender, Asia, Bhutan
Goyder Renewables Zone off to a resources begin as ACT charges up 2 huge batteries
The forecast for the ACT is two huge batteries and gale-force winds as the area's Government granted 2 substantial contracts in its latest 'reverse auction', consisting of a 14-year contract with Neoen, the first for its substantial Goyder Renewables Zone.
Sep 9, 2020 // Storage, TESLA, Australia, neoen, Oceania, Goyder Renewables Zone, Shane Rattenbury
Large-area natural PV module with 9.5% efficiency
Researchers in China have actually created a natural PV module with an energetic location of 216 sq centimeters. The panel is stated to have open circuit voltage of 10.6 V and short circuit current of 1.82 mA. It likewise includes the highest efficiency reported for a panel of its kind which has an active area of more than 100cm2
Sep 8, 2020 // Technology, China, Asia, PV module, efficiency
Floating PV to counter underperforming hydropower
Brazil currently has 12 GW of underperforming hydropower capability, according to U.S. scientists. Large-scale floating PV is a perfect remedy to offset this deficiency, as a result of its high capability variable, lots correlation, as well as high possible result during periods of high need.
Sep 8, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Floating PV, floating PV, South america, Brazil, PV Power Plant, hydropower plant
RWE to pursue Dutch harmonies, starts building 14-MW solar park
RWE Renewables GmbH has begun the building and construction of an over 14-MW solar park in the Netherlands, its first ground-mounted solar (PV) projects in the nation.
Sep 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Netherlands, Solar Park, RWE Renewables GmbH, Katja Wunschel
Cuba increasing solar capability with economic help from ADFD
Cuba has recently broadened a 10-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant to 15 MW of overall capacity with the help of funding from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD).
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, North America, Cuba, ADFD
Bulgaria's Gradus-1 invests in 999.74 kWp solar park
Bulgarian chicken producer Gradus [BUL: GR6] said on Tuesday that its wholly-owned unit Gradus-1 has spent 1 million levs ($603,000/ 511,000 euro) in the building and construction of a 999.74 kWp solar park at its farm in Stara Zagora.
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Bulgaria, Solar Park, Gradus
Asia Pacific renewables might draw in US$ 1tn of financial investments this decade-- WoodMac
Solar and also wind power stand for a US$ 1 trillion financial investment possibility in Asia Pacific this years, equivalent to two-thirds of the area's total power generation industry, as countries move far from fossil fuel generation in favour of greener choices.
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Wood Mackenzie, Australia, Oceania, Asia Pacific, natural gas, Alex Whitworth
GCL-Poly breaks ground on new polysilicon center
Polysilicon producer GCL-Poly has started construction on the first phase of a brand-new 54,000 MT polysilicon manufacturing center.
Sep 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, polysilicon, GCL-Poly, siemens process, fbr process
Modular systems to generate perovskite-silicon cells on six-inch wafers
Researchers in Germany are scaling up initiatives to bring perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell innovation into commercial scale manufacturing. The scientists state production cells of that kind is feasible on widely-available six-inch silicon wafers as well as modular systems are being created to do so at scale.
Sep 8, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe, solar cell, Bernd Stannowski
ReneSola Forms JV to Establish 3 GW Solar PV Manufacturing Facility
ReneSola as well as Zhongnan Industry have chosen to enter into a JV to set up a Solar PV manufacturing center with an annual production ability of 3 GW in China.
Sep 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, modules, renesola, International, Sky Wang, zheng lei
Sungrow Supplies to Southeast Asia's Largest Solar Installation in Vietnam
Sungrow, a leading global inverter option distributor for renewables, has introduced that the Company has supplied its most current 1500V 6.25 MW medium-voltage complete remedy to 350 MW solar PV project in Luning County, Pingfu Province of Vietnam. Upon conclusion, which is anticipated to be prior to December 31, 2020, the project will be the largest solar plant in Southeast Asia.
Sep 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Sungrow, Asia, inverter, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, solar projects
Performance-Based Financial Mechanism for MNRE's CST Scheme: GERMI
A new research has actually discovered that MNRE's off-grid and decentralised CST system must have a performance-based financial backing system
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Thermal, mnre, CST Scheme, GERMI, off grid
3 GW of Rooftop Solar in 2020, And a Grid Headache for Australia
Australia, after a hesitant welcome of renewable resource originally, has virtually broken down the door for renewable energy now. The globe's biggest coal merchant is racing to build solar, sometimes faster than the grids can maintain.
Sep 8, 2020 // Grids, Rooftop PV, Australia, rooftop PV, Oceania, Clean Energy Regulator, Solar certificates, solar subsidies, STC
Snam moots carrying solar-powered hydrogen from Africa
Transporting green hydrogen created making use of solar PV in North Africa could be approximately 15% more affordable than producing it locally in Italy, a new research assembled by brain trust The European House-- Ambrosetti and natural gas titan Snam has located.
Sep 8, 2020 // Solar to Fuel, Italy, Europe, hydrogen, green hydrogen, north africa, Marco Alverà