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Statkraft Italy has authorized a four-year research study arrangement with the Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences (DiSAAT) at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy to explore the potential of agri-photovoltaics (agri-PV) in Europe.

Statkraft has actually restarted operations at the initial unit of its floating solar plant located at the Banja storage tank in southeastern Albania, Norwegian floating solar innovation programmer Ocean Sun, which developed the system, claimed.

INRG Solar has been approved a growth approval order (DCO) for its 150MWp Little Crow Solar Farm.

Whitecross project in Lincolnshire is subsidy-free as well as will certainly feature Jinko Solar modules

Swiss Clean Battery is readied to begin commercial production of its pure strong state batteries in Switzerland. The batteries are based upon a safeguarded electrolyte made of a strong ion conductor, which aids to preserve inner resistance and capacity. The dealt with ion conductor is developed in the battery cell itself, comparable to a multi-component adhesive.

Germany's federal government is planning to slash red tape for new renewables projects as part of a new package of procedures that will certainly see the nation's already ambitious solar deployment targets be raised even further.

The UK government has committed to a significant ramp-up of solar capacity in the nation as part of a brand-new energy strategy.

The 204.3-MW Kozani solar park in northern Greece's Western Macedonia region has been formally powered up, its owner Hellenic Petroleum Group claimed on Wednesday.

German solar-powered car company Sono Group (NASDAQ: SEV) on Tuesday said it has signed a binding term sheet to generate its Sion solar electrical vehicle at Finnish agreement supplier Valmet Automotive.

PPA is for a portfolio of three solar projects containing two in Zealand as well as one in Jutland

Greece's Juwi Hellas Renewable Energy Sources said it has actually commissioned a 204 MW solar park in the Kozani area, in the north part of nation, owned by local power team Hellenic Oil.

German renewables firm BayWa r.e. AG has actually obtained the legal rights to the Driffield project near Kingston-upon-Hull in Yorkshire, England, where it will install a 45-MWp solar farm with 30 MW of co-located battery storage space.

Portugal's very first floating solar auction closed with a world record-low price, with utilities EDP and also Endesa among the winning bidders, the nation's environment ministry has actually announced.

A global study group has developed a carbon-based perovskite solar cell without a hole transportation layer. 2 plasmonic nanoparticles-- Ag@SiO2 and also SiO2@Ag@SiO2-- were included in the cell photoactive layer, in addition to a copper( I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) interlayer at the perovskite-carbon interface.

German energy business Avacon AG as well as project programmer SAB WindTeam GmbH have actually signed up with pressures to invest greater than EUR 500 million (USD 548.45 m) in onshore wind and solar projects in Lower Saxony.