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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
A step forward for single-crystal perovskites
Researchers in the United States have actually established a lithography-based process for the construction of single-crystal perovskites. Thin films made using this procedure have been incorporated into a range of devices, including solar cells, and also have demonstrated much better security performance than their more frequently looked into polycrystalline counterparts.
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, perovskites, Yusheng Lei, UCSD, Sheng Xu
Florida Power & Light starts building on 6 new solar facilities
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has started building and construction on 6 new solar energy centers that are anticipated to enter into operation by the end of the year.
Jul 31, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, pv power plants, North America, Florida Power & Light, Eric Silagy
Worldwide Thin Film Solar Cell Equipment Market With Key Trends, Development, Company Strategies, Global & Regional Sales Performance, Study & Development Activities To 2020-2026
Worldwide Marketers offers freshly released research report entitled, "Thin Film Solar Cell Equipment Market ". This report concentrates on supplying the current and latest development chances, 360-degree market introduction, and also statistical data of Thin Film Solar Cell Equipment industry.
Jul 31, 2020 // Market Research, First Solar, solar cells, Global Thin Film Solar Cell Equipment Market, Apollo Solar, Veeco, China Solar Energy, GreenSolar, STF Group, Jusung, Anwell, Nanowin, XsunX, Beiyi, ULVAC
Octopus Renewables acquires 14 French solar ranches for $69.7 m.
Energy supply firm Octopus Renewables Infrastructure has acquired 14 solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) farms in France.
Jul 31, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, pv power plants, Europe, Octopus Renewables, Phil Austin
Georgia Power introduces brand-new Customer-Connected Solar Program
Program aids grow renewable resource in Georgia and broadens the state's diverse power sources to benefit clients
Jul 31, 2020 // Policy, USA, Georgia, Georgia Power, Europe, North America, CCSP, Wilson Mallard
Perovskite mineral sustains solar-energy sustainability
When it involves the future of solar power cells, say farewell to silicon, and also hello there to calcium titanium oxide-- the substance mineral better known as perovskite.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, perovskite cells, Fengqi You, Cornell, Silicon pv, Xueyu Tian
Queensland solar drivers shocked by curtailment warning, anticipating rapid resolution
The driver of a 50MW solar center in North Queensland in danger of curtailment anticipates the trouble to be solved in the following couple of weeks.
Jul 31, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Inverters, Grids, ENERGY STORAGE, Australia, AEMO, queensland, Oceania, Genex Power, pumped hydro, grid stability, hydro storage, Simon Kidston
Finnish industrial park obtains 12 MW smart grid with main inverters
Inverter supplier Fimer offered its PVS980-58 main inverter option for the project, which will obtain 35% of its power from solar PV.
Jul 31, 2020 // Inverters, Grids, solar pv, Europe, Fimer, Filippo Carzaniga, Finland, Kai-Kristian Koskinen
US energy purchases Australian prefab PV system manufacturer
AES, among the globe's largest power business, has made a critical financial investment in Sydney-based prefabricated solar system maker 5B.
Jul 31, 2020 // Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, AES, Andrés Gluski
Meyer Burger secures financial institution authorization to buy SolarWorld manufacturing facility in Germany
Financial Institutions of SolarWorld Industries have approved the sale of a production facility to Meyer Burger. The Swiss technology group prepares to manufacture extremely effective solar modules at the plant.
Jul 31, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, meyer burger