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Adani Green Energy elevates $1.35 billion for its sustainable possession portfolio
Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), part of India-based Adani Group, elevated a $1.35 billion financial obligation bundle for its under-construction eco-friendly asset portfolio via conclusive arrangements signed with a group of leading worldwide loan providers.
Mar 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Adani Green Energy, AGEL
Canadian Solar directing more than 70% income growth for 2021
'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) participant Canadian Solar is directing a considerable increase in PV module and also energy storage shipments, leading to full year 2021 income of in between US$ 5.6 billion to US$ 6.0 billion, over 70% greater than earnings reported for 2020.
Mar 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, ENERGY STORAGE, Canadian Solar, pv power plants, pv modules
Shoals Technologies lauds 'record year' as it takes aim at post-IPO development targets
Solar Balance of System (BOS) services supplier Shoals Technologies has celebrated a "record year" in which profits expanded 21%, positioning different post-IPO targets strongly in its crosshairs for 2021.
Mar 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, IPO, finance, BOS, balance of system, shoals technologies, Jason Whitaker
14.4 TW of solar needed to cover global temperature level rise at 1.5 ° C.
The globe's solar power generation capacity will certainly need to reach 14.4 TW in the next 30 years to guarantee that the international temperature does not rise above 1.5 degrees celsius this century.
Mar 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, IRENA, International Renewable Energy Agency, Francesco La Camera, paris agreement, global capacity increase, global energy transition, global temperature rise
Climate-Tech VC Investing Tops $17bn in 2020
' Climate tech 'is a label for the emergence of innovations resolving the climate crisis, generally targeting both mitigation as well as adaptation. With lessons gained from the clean-tech boom as well as bust, investor think climate technology can be rewarding while assisting the atmosphere. A record $17 billion of resources was poured into climate-tech start-ups last year.
Mar 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, BloombergNEF, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, Total SE
Solar cells: Losses made visible on the nanoscale
Utilizing a conductive atomic force microscopic lense, they scanned the solar cell surfaces and also discovered small, nanometre-sized channels for the destructive dark currents, which are due to disorder in the a-Si: H layer.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency, HZB, Klaus Lips
CPV strategies 175-MW solar farm on previous coal mine in Maryland
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) will certainly be seeking clearance to build a 175-MW solar farm on the website of a coal mine in Maryland that closed recently.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, cpv, Maryland, solar farm, Competitive Power Ventures
Aberla Energy signs three-year solar PV agreement with Progress Housing
Aberla Energy has actually been chosen as professional energy contractor for the Progress Housing Group, authorizing a three-year solar contact.
Mar 17, 2021 // Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Aberla Energy, Progress Housing Group, Paul McCarren, Mark Harrington
Better Energy financial institutions solar PPA with Centrica
10-year offer will certainly see two parks constructed to provide 122GWh per year
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, PPA, Europe, Better Energy, Peter Munck Søe-Jensen, Kristian Gjerløv-Juel
Noon Energy's Breakthrough Renewable Energy Storage Space Modern Technology Lands $3M Seed Investment
Noon Energy Inc., designer of an advanced ultra-low-cost battery technology for long-duration energy storage, shut a $3 million Seed phase investment. Prime Impact Fund led the round as well as was joined by At One Ventures, Collaborative Fund, as well as Xplorer Capital.
Mar 17, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, SunPower, Renewable Energy, Collaborative Fund, Dick Swanson, Noon Energy, storage technology, Xplorer Capital
Wärtsilä to supply energy storage space for two projects in Texas, United States
Wärtsilä has safeguarded an order from Able Grid Energy Solutions to provide as well as preserve energy storage space systems for 2 projects in southerly Texas, US.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, North America, Wärtsilä, Risto Paldanius, Sharon Greenberg, Able Grid Energy Solutions
VRB Energy to construct battery-integrated solar power terminal in China
VRB Energy has accepted build a 100MW solar photovoltaic or pv plant with a 100MW/500MWh integrated vanadium flow battery in Xiangyang, Hubei District, China.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, China, Asia, PV Power Plant, VRB Energy, Robert Friedland, Mianyan Huang
Seeing both sides of light collection
2 types of products are better than one when it comes to solar cells, as exposed by a worldwide team that has actually tested a new combination of products and architecture to enhance solar-cell efficiency.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Michele De Bastiani
New perovskite LED gives off a spin-polarized radiance
The addition of an unique brand-new perovskite layer has actually allowed researchers to create a "spin-polarized LED" without requiring a magnetic field or extremely reduced temperatures, potentially clearing the path to a boating of novel innovations.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, USA, NREL, Washington, perovskite, North America, Joseph Luther, Matthew Beard
New analysis of 2D perovskites can form the future of solar cells and LEDs
An ingenious analysis of two-dimensional (2D) products from designers at the University of Surrey might increase the growth of next-generation solar cells and also LEDs.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, UK, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, Ravi Silva