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Groupe Filatex teams up with Canada’s DERA Energy.

Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) announces that Sargent & Lundy will act on IPL’s behalf to facilitate an all-source request for proposals (RFP) to meet future electric needs of our customers and the communities it serves. The RFP considers all potential options for replacement generation capacity so IPL can continue to deliver safe, reliable and affordable power to its 500,000 customers.

Clayton, a Tennessee-based home builder of on-site- and off-site-built homes, has installed its first 200 kW solar carport system at its Clayton Sulphur Springs home building facility in Texas. Installed by Solar One, the impressive new solar panel system will allow the company to offset 30 to 40% of the facility’s on-demand electricity use with renewable energy while providing shade for its team members’ vehicles.

German Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen and partners are developing technologies for the roll-to-roll production of organic photovoltaics (OPV) in the »EffiLayers« project.

Equinor has acquired 6,500,000 shares in Scatec Solar, corresponding to 5.2 percent of the shares and votes, at a total purchase price of USD 84 million.

The BMW Group has reached another electro-mobility milestone and already delivered half a million electric vehicles to customers worldwide.

The Danish government has agreed to provide $19 million in funds for two large-scale hydrogen projects under development on the Jutland peninsula. The two projects will produce green hydrogen for the transport sector from renewables sources. Denmark’s largest energy company, Ørsted, has also announced plans for an ambitious 2 MW electrolysis plant with appurtenant hydrogen storage.

GameChanger Solar has received an order of more than 200MW of tracking systems from South America.

A new filter feature has been added on Google map. The filter can now classify Electric vehicle charging stations depending on the plug available. Note that different manufacturers use varying charging connectors. For instance Nissan utilizes CHADEMO while VW and BMW use CCS plug. On the other hand, TESLA uses its own instrumentation in charging cars.

Delays and cancellation to connecting projects to the grid are likely to make the Unites States microgrid market to constrict by 17 percent.

1366 technollogy investing so much to ensure that they spend less time forming wafer with the use of molten silicon.

A few weeks ago, TERI raised tenders to commission Battery Energy Storage Systems on turnkey.

Indian Oil has issued a Tender for interested investors for construction of the 130 KW grid solar plant to be sited at Nagpur, Maharashtra.

Acciona has commissioned a 54.2MW / 62MWp PV plant in the Atacama desert, bringing its total renewables operating capacity in Chile to 536MW.

An American research team developed the new formula by applying to bifacial cells the Shockley-Queisser triangle, which is used to calculate the maximum theoretical efficiency of a monofacial solar cell using a single p-n junction technology. According to the group’s findings, the the triangle can help to clarify the deeper physical principles of the bifacial technology.