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Enel targets United States multi-gigawatt solar, storage build-out as maiden crossbreed breaks ground
Enel Green Power has begun on its first solar-storage hybrid project in the United States, setting its sights on deploying 1GW of energy storage over the following 2 years at the same time.
Jul 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Enel, enel green power, North America, colocation
Iberdrola keeps foot on the environment-friendly accelerator in spite of US$ 180m pandemic expense
Iberdrola has actually hit the accelerator on its renewables financial investments in H1 even with the pandemic, as the international utility looks to move on with a project pipeline that currently goes beyond 58GW.
Jul 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, Iberdrola, South america, Europe, Brazil, renewables, us, covid-19, utility, Ignacio Galan
Tandem solar modules vs commercial crystalline
Researchers in France have tried to predict the competitiveness of tandem PV modules versus industrial crystalline items in 2030. Crystalline items will be 22-24% reliable in a years, according to the researchers, perhaps 25% if interdigitated back-contact heterojunction versions come to be mainstream. To contend, tandem devices will require to supply similar lifetime and also degradation prices, plus effectiveness of 30%.
Jul 22, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, France, pv modules, solar cells, Europe, perovskite
Ukraine's legislation on FIT restructuring has passed: The specialist sight
Ukrainian renewable resource lawyer Svitlana Teush takes a look at the legislation which will certainly specify the cuts to be used in Ukraine after extensive negotiation between federal government as well as the clean energy sector.
Jul 22, 2020 // Policy, FiT, Ukraine, Svitlana Teush, Europe
Planned law could unlock 4 GW of UK storage space projects
The federal government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has actually prepared second legislation focused on relieving the building of huge scale power storage projects for renewables. Around 100 such batteries could be deployed thanks to the proposed guidelines, according to the department.
Jul 22, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, BEIS
Brazil removes import tasks for cells, modules, inverters as well as trackers
The Brazilian government has actually u-turned over solar equipment import obligation by introducing an action to get rid of the 12% levy for 101 kinds of module plus some inverters and also trackers. Head Of State Jair Bolsonaro had vetoed a similar proposition by the Senate as well as House of Representatives in November, specifying it would be also pricey.
Jul 22, 2020 // Policy, South america, Brazil, jair bolsonaro, Amerisolar
New all-iron redox flow battery for renewables storage space
Scientists in the U.S. insurance claim to have shown a low-cost, long-life, secure as well as environment-friendly redox flow battery. The gadget is said deal coulombic effectiveness of 97.9% thanks to useful electrolyte additives, pH and elevated temperature level.
Jul 22, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, hydrogen, North America, efficiency, redox flow battery
New york city launches largest renewable solicitation in United States history
4 GW of offshore wind and also land-based renewables are set to come to the Empire State, as guv Andrew Cuomo looks to attain the state's renewable energy mandates while also kickstarting a post-Covid economic situation.
Jul 22, 2020 // Large-Scale, USA, NYSERDA, Andrew Cuomo, North America
Solar modules made from perovskite product get a boost of stability as well as performance to change the sector
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and also Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and great security. Made using a type of material called perovskites, these solar modules can keep a high performance for over 2000 hours. Their searchings for, reported 20th July 2020 in leading journal, Nature Energy, have lightened up prospects of commercialization.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar modules, efficiency, perovskites, OIST, Yabing Qi, Luis Ono
Sonnedix lands financial close on new 40MW Japan project
Sonnedix has actually reached economic close on a 40MW utility-scale solar farm in Japan, including in an expanding portfolio of solar in the nation.
Jul 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Japan, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Sonnedix, Axel Thiemann, Asia, sumitomo mitsui
Vikram Solar plans 3 GW solar manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu
The design, procurement and building and construction services service provider-- which has a 1.2 GW module production center near Kolkata-- will establish a wafer, cell as well as module production website in Tamil Nadu under a five-year timescale.
Jul 21, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, Tamil Nadu, Asia, Vikram Solar
Tender for 32 MW solar project subcontractors in Chad
The scheduled power plant notes the initial phase of a 60 MW scheme 30km north of the funding, N'Djamena. The total project is being established by UK-based Private Infrastructure Development Group as well as French company Smart Energies International.
Jul 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Africa, chad
Building begins on 64 MW unsubsidized Polish solar plant
The project, readied to be commissioned this year, will certainly sell power to an unspecified commercial customer under a power acquisition contract.
Jul 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Poland, Europe, Benedikt Ortmann, Baywa re
Haiti addresses power shortages with 130 MW of PV capability
The head of state of the Caribbean island has introduced several ground-mounted PV plants will be tendered, along with 60 MW of thermal power generation capacity. The projects belong to a strategy to give the nation with universal access to electrical energy during Jovenel Moïse's five-year term in workplace.
Jul 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Policy, pv power plants, North America, Haiti
Ginlong reveals 255 kW string inverter
The producer states its new tool is the highest-powered string inverter available. The Solis-255K-EHV, three-phase product has a reported performance of 99%-- as well as a European performance of 98.8%.
Jul 21, 2020 // Inverters, China, Asia, ginlong