Europe

Equinor to pilot floating solar off Norway
Collaboration with Moss Maritime will construct the 80x80m plant in late summer season 2021
Jan 14, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Equinor, Hanne Wigum, Kristin Furunes Stromskag, Moss Maritime
Blue light ways large development for perovskite-based LEDs
Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have actually developed effective blue light-emitting diodes based on halide perovskites. "We are extremely excited concerning this breakthrough," states Feng Gao, professor at Linköping University. The brand-new LEDs may break the ice to inexpensive and also energy-efficient illumination.
Jan 14, 2021 // Technology, Sweden, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, Linköping University, Feng Gao, Weidong Xu
BayWa r.e. finishes two floating solar projects in the Netherlands
BayWa r.e. as well as its Dutch subsidiary GroenLeven have recently energised 2 floating solar projects in the Netherlands with an integrated capacity of 29.2 MWp.
Jan 14, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Netherlands, baywa r.e., Benedikt Ortmann, solar projects, groenleven group
'Historic' arrangement authorized in between Luxcara as well as BeGreen for 415MWp of Danish solar
German possession manager Luxcara has actually signed an investment arrangement with Danish solar programmer BeGreen for 4 PV parks.
Jan 14, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar pv, Europe, Denmark, Luxcara, begreen, ground mount solar pv, Philip Sander
Total, Engie strategy French hydrogen project powered by more than 100MW of solar
Total and also Engie have authorized an agreement to develop as well as run what they state will certainly be France's biggest green hydrogen center.
Jan 14, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Solar to Fuel, France, Engie, Europe, Total, hydrogen, green hydrogen, Philippe Sauquet, largescaleeu
Romania's Servelect to construct 380kWp solar plant for Romatsa
Romanian power efficiency services carrier Servelect claimed that it has introduced the layout stage of a 380 kWp solar power plant project appointed by Romanian's Air Traffic Services Administration (Romatsa).
Jan 13, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Romania, PV Power Plant, Servelect
International scientists create two-sided solar cells to accumulate scattered light
To raise the performance of solar panels, a team of scientists based in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Germany and Canada has developed a bifacial, or two-sided, tandem solar cell, constructed by combining the very best of the perovskite and silicon innovations.
Jan 13, 2021 // Technology, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Italy, solar cells, Europe, Asia, North America, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Ted Sargent, Yi Hou, Michele De Bastiani
Storage space might 'halve British wind curtailment'
3.6 TWh was shut off in 2020 sufficient to power a million homes for a year, claims LCP research
Jan 12, 2021 // Storage, ENERGY STORAGE, Europe, England, onshore wind, SCOTLAND, Wales, OFFSHORE WIND, Chris Matson
Qair establishes sights on Sicily with applications for 500MW of solar
Independent power producer Qair has finished the applications for obtaining licenses for 500MW of solar projects in Italy.
Jan 12, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Italy, Europe, Qair, quadran international, sicily
Supercapacitors difficulty batteries: graphene hybrid material gets to power thickness of batteries
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and also Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly reliable supercapacitor. The basis of the power storage device is a novel, powerful and likewise lasting graphene hybrid product that has equivalent performance information to currently utilized batteries.
Jan 11, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Graphene, Roland Fischer, TUM
Battery player Gresham acquires 25MW Tynemouth
UK-listed investor brings utility-scale storage portfolio to 350MW with most current deal
Jan 11, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gresham, Ben Guest, John Leggate
Lightrock Power unveils 49MW UK solar play
Examinations start for Leeming PV project found in the north of England
Jan 11, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, UK, Europe, PV Power Plant, Lightrock Power, Chris Sowerbutts
Bluefield Solar gets 70MW UK PV park
Bradenstoke project covers an 86-hectare site on a former RAF airbase in Wiltshire
Jan 11, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, John Rennocks, solar farm, Bluefield Solar
Engie, Neoen companion on 1GW French mega-solar
Horizeo project will certainly additionally include battery storage as well as provide a green hydrogen manufacturing plant
Jan 11, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, France, Engie, Europe, neoen, green hydrogen, Gwenaelle Avice-Huet, solar farm, Paul-Francois Croisille
Europe could tender 6 GW solar capability in 2021, Wood Mackenzie
In 2021, regarding 45 GW of renewables are in the pipeline to be tendered in Europe. The complete includes 17 GW of wind and also 6 GW of solar PV, with the staying auctions being either technology-neutral or putting on a number of sources, according to a report published by Wood Mackenzie.
Jan 11, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Wood Mackenzie, Europe