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Chinese court rules in favour of Huawei in SolarEdge license infringement situation
Huawei has actually won a license infringement case against SolarEdge in China, with the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court ordering SolarEdge to pay RMB10 million (US$ 1.4 million) in compensation.
Aug 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Inverters, China, Asia, SolarEdge, inverter, Huawei, patent infringement, hd wave
Indian 1.2 GW solar sees 'hostile' tariffs, Actis buys 400MW of properties
Azure Power and Tata Power were amongst the champions in a reverse auction for 1.2 GW of solar projects under India's ISTS programme which saw winning tariffs of INR2.43/ kWh (US$ 0.0324).
Aug 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, India, SECI, Asia, Actis, tata power, Azure Power, solar tender, acme, covid-19, auctions and tenders
First Solar sells O&M arm, checks out future of EPC business as tax equity headwinds loom
' Solar Module Super League' member First Solar has actually intended to increase down on manufacturing with the sale of its O&M division, having actually started conversations around the future of its EPC company.
Aug 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, EPC, ITC, O&M, First Solar, Mark Widmar, covid-19, series six, tax equity
Solar tile with passive cooling
Researchers built the gadget by affixing 17%- effective monocrystalline PV cells to a mortar roofing ceramic tile that was doped with a phase-change product (PCM). The PCM solar tile provided 4.1% even more power than the PV ceramic tile without any cooling representative in the winter season, and 2.2% to 4.3% even more during the summer.
Aug 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Oceania, cooling
Challenging plans to release PV on dikes
Dutch researchers are attempting to determine whether large-scale PV projects can be released on flood-control dikes throughout the Netherlands. A 5 MW solar project has actually currently been built on a dike near Groningen, yet the scientists believe there is possible to accumulate to 2.9 GW of PV on such embankments.
Aug 6, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, Europe, Netherlands, Maarten Dörenkämper, Michelle Talsma
CERC Approves Tariff for 480 MW Solar PV Projects
SECI's trading margin of Rs.0.07/ kWh has likewise been approved
Aug 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Tariffs, SECI, solar pv, tariff, DISCOM, CERC
KfW Grants Rs 600 Cr Loan for 125 MW Solar Project in West Bengal
KfW has granted a Rs 600 crore financing to WBSEDCL for the work on the very first phase of a 125 MW solar project in the Purba Medinipur area of West Bengal.
Aug 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, KFW, West Bengal, Solar Project, WBSEDCL
J-Power, SPDI, Avondale & AP Solar to Develop 400 MW Solar Project in Texas
J-POWER USA, SPDI, Avondale Solar and also AP Solar have actually agreed to collectively develop Charger Solar, a 400 MW air conditioning solar project located in Refugio County, Texas.
Aug 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, International, Solar Project, Avondale, J-Power, Trevor Nash, Mark Condon, AP Solar, SPDI,
BayWa r.e. tees up flurry of renewables possession sales for Q4
BayWa r.e. expects in conclusion the majority of a 1GW+ pipe of renewable property sales in the direction of completion of this year after it highlighted the function solar played in its H1 2020 results.
Aug 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, floating PV, Europe, baywa r.e., financials, asset sales
Vivint beats implementation forecasts to help diminish losses
United States residential solar installer Vivint Solar released around 44MW of solar in the second quarter of 2020, defeating assumptions and helping to diminish its losses.
Aug 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Sunrun, vivint solar, North America, m&a, q2 2020
Croatia tenders 50 MW of solar
The Croatian energy regulatory authority is seeking to assign 88 MW of renewable resource generation capacity. The tender becomes part of the country's plan to acquire 2.26 GW of renewables consisting of more than 1 GW of solar.
Aug 6, 2020 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, tender, Europe, Croatia
Tesla might end up being power company in Germany
The high-profile electrical car maker is performing a study of German clients to assess their passion in a Tesla electrical power toll.
Aug 6, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, TESLA, Germany, UK, Europe
Bosch acquires more solar energy
German utility RWE will offer solar power to the German empire under a 16-year power acquisition contract. The electricity will certainly be generated by a 50 MW solar plant in southern Germany. Bosch has also secured power supply handle Statkraft as well as Vattenfall.
Aug 6, 2020 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, rwe, Bosch, Andree Stracke
Portugal's 700 MW solar auction 10 times oversubscribed
Minister of the environment and climate action, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, revealed the development and exposed nine of the 10 lots tendered include power storage space.
Aug 6, 2020 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Portugal, Europe, auction, João Pedro Matos Fernandes
'Spontaneous de-doping' for 17.8%- reliable perovskite mini-module
U.S. scientists have located a brand-new 'de-doping' procedure in perovskite solar cells that might cut manufacturing expenses and create far better tools. They have utilized this to make a mini-module with 17.8% performance.
Aug 6, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, solar cell, perovskite, North America, efficiency