Europe

Delta provides inverters for southern Germany's biggest ground-mounted PV plant
Delta Electronics Europe BV is giving its high-efficiency PV string inverters M70A collection to the solar business Anumar, an engineering, purchase and building and construction (EPC) companies, which is developing the "Solarpark Schornhof" project, currently the biggest ground-mounted solar park in Southern Germany.
Dec 16, 2020 // Inverters, Germany, Europe, Delta
Researchers debut whole new type of solar energy storage
A team of researchers from Lancaster University in the UK have developed an entire brand-new method to save power from the Sun for numerous months at a time, with the alternative of releasing it as needed in the form of warmth.
Dec 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, UK, Europe, Lancaster University, John Griffin
Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have developed a color atlas for 466 distinct varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Dec 15, 2020 // Technology, USA, China, solar cells, Europe, Asia, North America, Finland, Graphene, thin films, Esko I. Kauppinen, Junichiro Kono, Nan Wei
At the very least 1GW of PV ability to be included in Spain's renewables auction next month
The first of Spain's new clean power auctions is readied to take place following month, with the nation's federal government designating a total amount of 3GW of renewables capacity. While at the very least 1GW will be for solar PV and one more 1GW for onshore wind, the staying capability will certainly be auctioned without technological constraints.
Dec 15, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, auctions, Europe, auction, tenders, Utility-Scale Storage, renewable tender
Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power
Scientists show an ingenious e-skin with touch and proximity-sensing abilities without utilizing devoted touch sensors
Dec 14, 2020 // Technology, UK, Europe, Glasgow University, Ravinder Dahiya, Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies, BEST
Ofgem looks for 'more control' of energy system
Report from regulatory authority requires public body to take tactical role in change to net absolutely no
Dec 14, 2020 // Grids, Policy, UK, Europe, Ofgem, net-zero
Britishvolt settles website for $3.4 bn battery factory in UK
UK-based battery supplier Britishvolt has actually finalised Blyth, Northumberland as the website to develop its ₤ 2.6 bn battery gigaplant.
Dec 14, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Storage, UK, Europe, Britishvolt, Orral Nadjari
Talga brings ABB into European battery manufacturing facility as well as mine project
Talga Group and ABB have authorized a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of an anode development project in Sweden.
Dec 14, 2020 // Storage, ABB, Sweden, Europe, lithium-ion battery, Talga Group, Memorandum of Understanding, Björn Jonsson
Upscaling thermochemical power storage space to a business level
Among the largest obstacles in using renewable resource effectively is the opportunity to store power on a large scale. SaltX Technology AB has partnered with Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) to fix this in terms of heat energy.
Dec 11, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Sweden, Europe, Carl-Johan Liner, SaltX, Sumitomo SHI FW, SFW, Timo Jantti
New silicon/perovskite solar cell globe record nears 30% effectiveness
Silicon has long been the gold standard for solar cells, however it's starting to reach its limitation. Perovskite is emerging as a promising companion, and now designers have attained a new efficiency record closing in on 30 percent for this sort of tandem solar cell.
Dec 11, 2020 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, silicon, efficiency, HZB, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Sungrow Materials Inverters for 100 MW Solar Plant in Hungary
Solar PV inverter remedies service provider-- Sungrow has introduced that it has supplied its medium-voltage inverter solutions to a 100 MW solar plant in Kaposvàr, south-west Hungary, which is just one of the biggest solar projects and biggest financial investment of this nature in whole Central Europe. Committing to sustain Hungary's climate policy targets, consisting of power manufacturing in a carbon-neutral way by 2050.
Dec 11, 2020 // Plants, Inverters, Sungrow, Hungary, Europe, PV Power Plant, László Palkovics, Wang Guopeng, Lewis Li
Hydro-Quebec installs 9 MWh storage system in France
Hydro-Québec, Canada's largest electrical energy producer, is involved in the installment of a huge battery storage center in France.
Dec 11, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, Hydro-Québec, Sophie Brochu
Greencells locations initially EUR15m of environment-friendly bond, bags Poland EPC deal
Solar EPC as well as O&M supplier Greencells has efficiently put the initial tranche of a secured environment-friendly bond, raising EUR15 million (US$ 17.9 million) to finance a growth press.
Dec 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, EPC, Poland, O&M, Europe, green bond, greencells, Andreas Hoffmann
Meyer Burger to take a US$ 2.2 million loss on heterojunction solar cell line agreement
Meyer Burger Technology has actually concurred a settlement with Swiss headquartered PV maker, EcoSolifer over a 2015 on heterojunction (HJ) solar cell line contract that will cause a CHF 1.97 million (US$ 2.22 million) loss for Mayer Burger.
Dec 10, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Germany, Hungary, Europe, c-si manufacturing, meyer burger, Switzerland, monocrystalline wafer, heterojunction solar cell, Ecosolifer
Solar engineers PVcase launch variation 2.0 design software
Solar design business PVcase has released the 2nd version of its layout software.
Dec 10, 2020 // Software, UK, Europe, PVcase, David Trainavicius, Douglas Geist