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New DLR institutes will certainly explore solar-chemical fuels and the future of air transportation
In the future, mobility needs to come to be more eco-friendly - whether artificial fuels from sustainable sources, electrical power or hydrogen, cutting-edge and also low-emission engines, unmanned as well as electric aircraft, or concepts for their assimilation into the air transport system. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum hair Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is establishing four new institutes as well as facilities to magnify its research on a large range of topics in these important areas. Funding is currently guaranteed adhering to the passing of the Structural Reinforcement Act (StStG) by the German Federal Parliament and the Federal Council on 3 July 2020.
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Transport, Germany, Europe, Pascale Ehrenfreund
SJVN Tenders for Development of 100 MW Solar Plant at Dholera Solar Park
SJVN has released a tender, inviting SPDs for setting up a 100 MW grid-connected solar PV power plant at the Dholera Solar Park in Gujarat.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, India, tender, Asia, solar plant, Projects, Dholera Solar Park, SJVN Ltd
JV launched to couple 4GW with 'globe's largest environment-friendly hydro project' in Saudi Arabia
A joint endeavor project has actually been launched to establish what intends to be the world's biggest green hydrogen project, using up to 4GW of solar and also other renewables as its power source.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Saudi Arabia, Asia, hydrogen, ACWA Power, green hydrogen, renewables, power-to-x
Solar farm fitted with batteries to fulfill grid output control needs browses the web in Japan
One of the first large-scale solar farms in Japan so far to be geared up with battery storage space in order to fulfill the demands of a neighborhood grid operator as well as energy, has been completed on the island of Hokkaido.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, Japan, Asia, sb energy, Alex O'Cinneide, HEPCO
Solarcentury, EDF, Engie among victors as Chile introduces results of 2.6 GW solar tender
The Chilean federal government has granted development legal rights for 11 utility-scale renewables tasks in the country, completing more than 2.6 GW.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, EDF, Engie, Enel, Chile, tender, South america, Latin america, latam, Solarpack, solarcentury, development rights, Julio Isamit, Cristian Fuenzalida
Is Kuwait all set to ditch spots solar project?
The, otherwise reported, 1 GW or 1.5 GW, $1.2-1.43 billion 'Dibdibah' or 'Dabdaba' solar project is supposedly in danger of being deserted completely. The ambitious project was expected to have hurt in the very first quarter of 2018 for completion this year.
Jul 7, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Asia, Solar Project, Kuwait, LeAnn Graves
There's something fishy about this flow battery development
Researchers led by MIT have suggested chitin, a carbon and also nitrogen-rich material made from waste shrimp coverings, might create sustainable electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries as well as other energy storage innovations.
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Massachusetts, MIT, North America, Francisco Martin-Martinez
Baywa offers 'largest floating PV park outside China'
The 27 MW Dutch task in Zwolle has actually been sold to a consortium including a provincial energy shift fund as well as a local power co-operative in a bargain backed by public financing.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Netherlands, Baywa re, Matthias Taft
Jinko bifacial panel order to expand 160 MW Chilean project
The Chinese maker will supply 126 MW of modules to a project in Antofagasta which was initially installed utilizing its products in 2016.
Jul 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Chile, South america, JinkoSolar, Alberto Cuter
Chinese-made HJT striking Australian rooftops
Risen Australia as well as distributor One Stop Warehouse signed an expanded 150 MW distribution offer recently, noting the Chinese maker's most recent effort to broaden in the rooftop sector. With Risen's brand-new heterojunction component, the 415-435 W Sieger, now relocating right into automation, One Stop Warehouse's Leo Ye welcomed the "brand-new, fresh" technology.
Jul 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Australia, Eric Lee, Oceania, Risen, One Stop Warehouse, Leo Ye, Andy Cheng
Sunrun to acquire Vivint Solar for $3.2 billion in all-stock deal
The brand-new, bigger Sunrun will certainly have 500,000 clients and greater than 3 GW of solar energy properties. Is there value in range in residential solar?
Jul 7, 2020 // Residential, USA, Sunrun, vivint solar, David Bywater, North America, Lynn Jurich, Ravi Manghani
Microscopic frameworks might further boost perovskite solar cells
Solar cells based upon perovskite compounds might soon make electricity generation from sunlight even more efficient as well as more affordable. The laboratory effectiveness of these perovskite solar cells currently exceeds that of the widely known silicon solar cells. A worldwide team led by Stefan Weber from limit Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz has actually located tiny frameworks in perovskite crystals that can guide the charge transportation in the solar cell. Creative placement of these electron highways might make perovskite solar cells a lot more effective.
Jul 6, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Stefan Weber, Mainz
Gresham House sprinkles ₤ 20.1 m on 41MW of functional storage
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has actually obtained 41MW of energy storage in a ₤ 20.1 million transaction.
Jul 6, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gresham House, Arenko, Rupert Newland
Harmony Energy partners with FRV for utility-scale storage space project
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and also Harmony Energy have signed up with pressures to commission their very first utility-scale battery system in the UK.
Jul 6, 2020 // Storage, TESLA, UK, Battery Storage, Europe, ai, Harmony Energy, software, Frv Fotowatio Renewable, Ventures, Tesla Megapack, Autobidder, Peter Kavanagh, Felipe Hernández
BP, JinkoPower companion to target China's C&I market
Power large BP has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with JinkoSolar's advancement and operations arm JinkoPower Technology to target China's big C&I power market.
Jul 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, C&I, Solar, JinkoSolar, bp, renewables, jinkopower, energy as a service, net zero, Dev Sanyal