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ReneSola has announced it will certainly participate in a consortium to create a large-scale ground-mounted solar plant in the south of France.

Dutch start-up Solar Visuals and also the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have actually created brand-new "resemble layout" exterior modules that reproduce the attributes of structure surface areas. Lenneke Slooff-Hoek, an elderly scientist for TNO, told pv publication that the panels can be made in any kind of dimension or shade at 13% effectiveness, adding that they have a partly transparent colored layer made from tiny dots.

The SOL 7 series consists of 5 products for Perc, Topcon and heterojunction tools.

Dutch water supplier Evides Waterbedrijf has actually appointed a 1.6 MW drifting PV plant at one of its facilities near Rotterdam. It is now considering the building and construction of more floating solar plants on 3 other storage tanks, including a 350-hectare water surface area.

The Yllikkälä Power Reserve One task will certainly be among Europe's biggest storage space installations as well as the biggest in the Nordic countries. French developer Neoen will deploy the big battery near to Lappeenranta in the southeastern part of the nation.

Norwegian consultancy DNV GL has actually united large power players, floating PV professionals and also project developers right into a consortium that will aim to specify suggested methods for the floating solar organisation. Amongst the 14 participants are some large gamers in the field including EDP, EDF as well as Equinor, along with French floating modern technology service provider Ciel & Terre.

The deal is the fourth power purchase agreement protected by Voltalia in its homeland. French store Auchan will certainly get the power under a 20-year contract.

Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, are trying to transform carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to sustain using power from sunlight. Current results have actually shown that it is possible to utilize their method to uniquely create methane, carbon monoxide gas or formic acid from carbon dioxide and water. The study has been released in ACS Nano.

The last ordinary cost for power produced by solar systems with abilities ranging from 100 kW to 500 kW can be found in at EUR96.49/ MWh. The price for installations ranging in dimension from 500 kW to 8 MW was EUR86.17/ MWh.

The German conglomerate's electrolyzers flaunt effectiveness levels of approximately 80%. The modular gadgets can be attached to form plants of nearly any type of dimension.

Dubai-based Weco has actually introduced a new lithium battery solution that can operate in parallel as a low-voltage storage space system or in series as a high-voltage battery without hardware changes. The batteries can be mounted on wall surfaces or set up in a pile setup.

Solar programmers can send applications from today. The guidelines of the procurement exercise were released by the nation's Directorate-General for Energy and Geology.

Four years after the expiry of environment-friendly certificates for PV systems up to 10 kW, the authorities in Belgium's Flanders region intend to support solar once again-- yet this time in the kind or rebates. A brand-new scheme will likely go into force in 2021, with as much as EUR1,500 to be granted per PV system.

The biggest council-owned power storage site in the UK has been energised as well as is now functional.

Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Solutions and Device Modern technology IISB are attempting to recognize the sources of light and elevated temperature induced degradation (LeTID) in PERC solar cells. First examinations must offer a comprehensive understanding of the process and also product dependence of LeTID and also associated degradation effects in monocrystalline and multicrystalline PERC solar cells.