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Cooling PV panels with salt water
An Anglo-Egyptian study group has actually developed an easy air conditioning approach based upon saturated triggered alumina, with saline water as an air conditioning agent.
Sep 16, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, UK, Europe, cooling
Risen Signs 140 MW Modules Agreement With UPC-AC Energy Solar
Risen Energy has actually signed an organized 140 MW supply agreement with UPC-AC Energy Solar Asia.
Sep 15, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Risen Energy, solar modules, AC Energy, International, UPC-AC Energy Solar, Pranab Kumar Sarmah
Forecasting the slow-moving death of lithium-ion batteries
Batteries discolor as they age, slowly losing power and storage capacity. As in people, aging plays out differently from one battery to an additional, as well as it's beside difficult to gauge or model all of the connecting systems that contribute to decline. Therefore, the majority of the systems utilized to handle charge degrees sensibly and to approximate driving variety in electrical automobiles are almost callous changes in the battery's internal functions.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Stanford University, Simona Onori
Sunpro Solar initially to install new NeON LG solar panel in US
Sunpro Solar reports that they will be the initial solar service provider in the U.S. to set up the new series of LG NeON 355 watts photovoltaic panels.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Sunpro Solar, NeON LG solar panel, David Chang, Dean Scott
Tandem gadgets really feel the warm
Understanding exactly how solar cell operation changes as it relocates from the lab into the real world is essential for optimizing their design before automation. KAUST scientists show how perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells function in a warm as well as warm setting.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, Asia, solar cell, Erkan Aydin
Walmart launches 'Gigaton PPA' campaign to reinforce its supply chain's renewables credentials
US-based providers of Walmart will certainly be able to contract for renewable resource as a cohort under a new effort released by the retailer together with Schneider Electric.
Sep 15, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, Schneider Electric, Walmart, North America
SECI launches brand-new solar-plus-storage tender
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has actually invited bids for a 100MWac/200MWp solar project with a 50MW/150MWh battery power storage system in the state of Chhattisgarh.
Sep 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, SECI, tender, Asia, solar-plus-storage, world bank
Masdar takes stake in landmark Benban solar complicated with ib vogt offer
Ib vogt has actually offered its shareholding in its 64.1 MWp 'Infinity 50' project, which makes up part of the Benban solar complicated in Egypt, to Masdar.
Sep 15, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Masdar, Asia, ib vogt, Africa, Egypt, infinity energy, Anton Milner, benban solar complex
Gujarat expands bidding for 110 MW grid-connected solar and drifts new 210 MW tender
Developers now have till September 23 to lodge bids for the 110 MW purchase round as well as can throw their hat right into the ring for a new tender in the area of Jamnagar which closes on October 5.
Sep 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, tender, Asia, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited
Mounting frameworks for floating PV from Spain
Spanish engineer Isigenere has actually established floating PV mounting structures based upon virgin high-density polyethylene as well as states the manufacturing process, which features plastic shot, can create around 1 MW of the product every 5 days.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Floating PV, Spain, floating PV, Europe
Active cooling for PV modules in floating arrays
Saudi Arabian scientists have actually produced a serpentine cooling block framework to improve the efficiency of PV panels in floating solar projects by around 1.5%. The cooling block can be loaded through a low-cost, 15.6 W commercial 12 V DC water pump with cool water.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Floating PV, floating PV, JinkoSolar, Asia, Pakistan, cooling
Photovoltaic shade for greenhouses
French start-up Solar Cloth has safeguarded a license for a PV shade display for solar greenhouses.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Commercial, France, Europe, Start-up, SAS Solar Cloth System
EU Green Recovery plan can sustain 2.3 GW of Spanish solar project capacity
Three big projects are prospects for assistance from the Covid recovery plan outlined by the bloc.
Sep 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, covid-19, green recovery
Larger and better: Technology
The SNEC 2020 PV Power Expo opened on Aug. 8 in Shanghai. Unlike previous versions, the world's largest solar profession fair was primarily participated in by Chinese individuals this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the profession fair made use of to provide insights right into international market fads, quantities were reduced this year as a result of a buyer/seller standoff amid climbing rates triggered by the recent mishaps at polysilicon plants in Xinjiang. Likewise, there was little adjustment in technologies. PV InfoLink's Corrine Lin offers insights right into cells and modules at SNEC 2020.
Sep 15, 2020 // Opinions, China, Asia, LONGi, Jinko, Corrine Lin
Maintaining PV panels honest-- ACT advancement fund inflate testing ability
Dr Michelle McCann and also Lawrence McIntosh, the companions behind the solar panel testing center, PV Lab, in Canberra think of Australia's PV installations, big as well as tiny, as composing a huge virtual power plant. Their goal is to wring the promised performance from panels being marketed into the Australian market and the ACT Government has actually just increased their possibilities.
Sep 15, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Michelle McCann, Lawrence McIntosh