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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
New reports check out 2019 Arizona battery explosion
A series of failures caused thermal runaway and a surge at Arizona Public Service Electric's McMicken battery center, according to 2 new reports that look at just how to avoid similar calamities in the future.
Jul 31, 2020 // Market Research, USA, North America, Arizona Public Service Electric
Germany added 437 MW of PV in June
June installments brought first-half capacity additions to 2.36 GW, as Europe's largest solar market mostly shook off the effect of the pandemic.
Jul 31, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe
German PV tender ends with most affordable price of EUR0.0490/ kWh.
The country's most current tech-specific PV tender was oversubscribed, however the final prices are somewhat lower than those videotaped in the last purchase round.
Jul 31, 2020 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Germany, tender, Europe, Julia Verlinden
Techniques to stop overvoltage-induced inverter disconnections
Australian scientists have actually recognized 7 methods to avoid PV losses when overvoltage-induced inverter disconnections happen. The techniques consist of battery storage space, responsive power inverters, export restrictions, distribution static synchronous compensators, the replacement of old conductors in power grids, load reconfiguration, as well as dynamic voltage repair.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Inverters, Australia, Oceania
Fuzzy logic MPPT to enhance PV system performance
A Pakistani-Chinese research team has actually demonstrated a new maximum power factor tracking technique, based upon a fuzzy logic algorithm to supply faster results. The converter tech is asserted to have an effect on PV system performance and offer seclusion between the tons as well as the PV range.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Inverters, China, Asia, Pakistan, PV system, Comsats University
Sunnova earnings rise as firm objectives to 'not just endure, but flourish' COVID situation
A significant US household installer has reported a rise in both incomes as well as revenues during Q2 2020, leading it to assert it is not only making it through the COVID-19 pandemic, yet growing.
Jul 31, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, Sunnova, North America, William J. Berger, covid-19
India will certainly get to 125 GW sustainable ability by December 2022
A brand-new report by ICRA states large-scale solar in the country will likely achieve the 60 GW target established by the Indian government. Rooftop solar and also wind, however, will certainly see a shortfall.
Jul 31, 2020 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, India, Asia, ICRA, Sabyasachi Majumdar
Deloitte deserts Chinese solar company SFCE due to going-concern worries
The auditor mentioned the danger presented to the financial debt saddled business as the factor for resigning its function, reliable from today.
Jul 31, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, China, Hong Kong, Asia, Deloitte
Texan utility tenders 900 MW of solar, 50 MW of storage space
CPS Energy has taken the initial step towards bringing those quantities-- plus 500 MW of firming capability-- to the Lone Star State in pursuit of the power firm's 50%- renewables-by-2040 objective.
Jul 31, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Texas, tender, North America, Texan, cps energy
Safeguard responsibility on solar cell imports expanded by a year
The import obligation will certainly be imposed on Chinese, Vietnamese and also Thai solar cells-- whether assembled right into components or not-- at 14.9% from today and also being up to 14.5% in six months' time. Malaysian items are excused as their imports have actually fallen drastically given that the obligation was enforced, in July 2018.
Jul 31, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Malaysia, India, China, Thailand, Asia, Vietnam
Hydrogen storage space in French salt caves
Hydrogène de France as well as gas grid business Teréga plan to release a feasibility research for a 1.5 GWh pilot hydrogen storage space project in caves in the southwest of the country.
Jul 30, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, hydrogen, Teréga