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Inkjet printing manufacture leads method for functional perovskite solar cell manufacturing
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a brand-new manufacture strategy based on inkjet printing that might make it possible for quick, effective and also scalable production of perovskite solar cells.
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Washington, solar cell, perovskite, North America, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Helge Eggers, Inkjet printing, Ulrich W. Paetzold
Australian political election pledge includes interest-free car loans for roof solar and battery storage
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch of the nation's Labor Party will certainly offer zero-interest financings for rooftop photovoltaic panels, family battery storage and also hot water heatpump if re-elected in an upcoming political election.
Aug 3, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Rooftop PV, Battery Storage, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, home solar, canberra, australian capital territory, Andrew Barr, Amanda McKenzie
Fraunhofer ISE lands moneying for agrophotovoltaics research study at German apple orchard
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer ISE) has actually obtained EUR740,000 (US$ 866,429) in financing to check out land use problems between solar farms as well as farming land.
Aug 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, Fraunhofer ISE, agrophotovoltaics, farmland pv, Ulrike Höfken
EUROPE ROUND-UP: Denmark's very first bifacial solar farm is offered, RWE to pocket French solar
A round-up of the most up to date news from Europe's solar market, as European Energy liquidates Denmark's initial solar farm constructed making use of bifacial panels and also both RWE and also Octopus grab French solar properties.
Aug 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, bifacial, Europe, finance, european energy, Fimer, Finland, Octopus, rwe,
Albanian utility set to move on with 12.9 MW floating PV project
Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare began development of the EUR13.9 million center in December 2018. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is taking into consideration lending EUR9.5 million to a project which it is said would help reduce the electric company's dependence on hydro earnings.
Aug 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Albania, Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare
Former Panda Green finance principal backtracks on backdated paperwork meeting
Li Hong, previous chief finance policeman of the now-state-owned Chinese solar programmer has supposedly told Panda Green the details he offered KPMG detectives concerning $146 countless missing job legal rights settlements 'might not be precise.' He has actually rejected to be spoken with once more by the investigators.
Aug 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, China, Hong Kong, Asia, Panda Green, KPMG, Li Hong
South African utility Eskom releases tender for 80 MW/320 MWh of storage
The South African national power business is preparing to release big range energy storage ability at the Skaapvlei substation. The center will help manage the periodic energy created by a 100 MW Eskom wind ranch.
Aug 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, pv power plants, tender, Africa, eskom, South Africa
Chinese solar glass company maintains 24-hour heaters running throughout Covid situation
Xinyi Solar has actually revealed an additional excellent collection of figures and also strategies another 1,000-ton-per-day assembly line this month plus a new mine to source resources in September.
Aug 3, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Xinyi Solar, covid-19
UNITED STATE Renewable Jet Fuel Production Skyrockets Regardless Of Covid
UNITED STATE Renewable Jet Fuel Production Skyrockets Regardless Of Covid
Aug 3, 2020 // Market Research, USA, North America
Company Models: Innovation Landscape Briefs
IRENA's Innovation Landscape report highlights innovations that create business instance for brand-new solutions, with ground-breaking organisation versions boosting power system flexibility and also incentivising fast integration of solar as well as wind innovations.
Aug 3, 2020 // Market Research, IRENA
System Operation: Innovation Landscape Briefs
IRENA's Innovation Landscape report highlights technologies in system procedure that allow the integration of greater shares of variable eco-friendly power generation.
Aug 3, 2020 // Market Research, IRENA
Amorphous lithium exploration might cause brand-new high-performance batteries
Researchers have actually laid out to research the kinetics of lithium deposition during biking in a battery. By changing various specifications, they've discovered that it's relatively easy to put lithium right into amorphous type, which is superior on an electromechanical degree.
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, lithium, North America, Shirley Meng, amorphous
A domestic vanadium flow battery
Flow battery manufacturers typically go after energy scale storage projects but German start-up VoltStorage is targeting the house market.
Aug 3, 2020 // Storage, Germany, Europe, Start-up, flow battery, VoltStorage, vanadium redox
Cadmium-free CIGS solar cell with 18% effectiveness
South Korean researchers made the cell with the chemical bath deposition method, utilizing various thiourea focus. For the buffer layer, they used zinc as opposed to cadmium sulfide. The cell is flexible and also is readily available in 7 various shades.
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, South Korea, Asia, solar cell, efficiency, CIGS, Cadmium-free
Is Mexican energy CFE getting in the solar business?
Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is looking for authorization to establish 350 MW of solar in the state of Baja California. The ranges will be built on the exact same site as the 820 MW Cerro Prieto geothermal project. Nonetheless, it stays vague whether the PV setups mark the company's formal entrance into the solar company.
Aug 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Mexico, North America, cfe, Manuel Bartlett