Germany

Meyer Burger weighes gigawatt-scale German solar fab
President Gunter Erfurt informed a German radio terminal a solar manufacturing facility in North Rhine-Westphalia might provide high-efficiency panels for a 10 GW floating solar project on the huge Hambach open-cast coal mine.
May 5, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Floating PV, Germany, floating PV, Europe, meyer burger, REC Group, Gunter Erfurt
Germany released 1.1 GW of solar in Q1
In March alone, 368 MW of brand-new PV ability was released, standing for a rise of simply 18 MW from the exact same month a year previously.
May 4, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe
A redox flow battery for MW-sized solar-plus-storage
Matt Harper, primary business police officer of newly-merged British-Canadian vanadium redox circulation battery company Invinity Energy Systems has actually talked to pv magazine concerning the VS3-022 Battery Unit it is marketing for grid range solar-plus-storage projects as well as why it might be a much better wager than lithium-ion.
Apr 29, 2020 // Storage, California, USA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, Asia, eastern europe, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, lithium-ion, vanadium redox flow battery, North America, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Matt Harper, Avalon Battery Corp
A 3000km Odyssey Across Australia Powered By Only Sunlight
Has there ever before been a solar endurance rally such as this one? Not on your life. Forty 4 solar-powered autos from 20 nations went into the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC), a 3000 kilometres (1,875 miles) endurance rally throughout the red continent from Darwin to Adelaide with the center of Australia, and also less than half the autos completed.
Apr 29, 2020 // Transport, USA, Japan, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Germany, UK, Italy, China, Australia, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Netherlands, North America, Turkey, Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, Chris Selwood
Uncapping Germany's 1 TW of PV capacity
EuPD Research has actually carried out a study revealing that possible financiers see Germany's 52 GW cap for solar rewards in the household sector as the major obstacle to future development. Renewable resource profession body Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft, on the other hand, stated the country has the possible to get to 1,000 GW of mounted solar capability by 2050.
Apr 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, EuPD Research
North German pilot hydrogen project obtains money increase
German business General Practitioner Joule intends to develop hydrogen transportation facilities in North Friesland. The electrical energy created by 5 wind ranches in the area will certainly be transformed to eco-friendly hydrogen to be supplied to filling up terminals in Husum as well as Niebüll as well as made use of by 2 fuel-cell buses and also 5 autos.
Apr 23, 2020 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, Germany, Europe, hydrogen, Ove Petersen
Germany has 200,000 solar-plus-storage systems
EuPD Research approximates around 65,000 power storage space systems connected to rooftop PV were set up in 2014 thanks to progressively prominent electrical automobiles and also solar selections in addition to increasing electrical power rates.
Apr 21, 2020 // Plants, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Germany, Europe, solar-plus-storage, EuPD Research, Sonnen, Markus Hoehner
PV-powered hand sanitizer wins Covid-19 hackathon
An ESA-backed hackathon increased the concept of transforming end-of-life PV components right into hand sanitizers. The group that won the hackathon is currently functioning to swiftly present the service at range to include the Covid-19 spread.
Apr 20, 2020 // Technology, Germany, pv modules, Europe, covid-19, Estonia, SunCrafter, Joana Kamenova
Tandem solar cell globe document: New branch in the NREL graph
Tandem cells integrate 2 various semiconductors that transform various parts of the light range right into electric power. Metal-halide perovskite substances mostly make use of the noticeable parts of the range, while CIGS semiconductors transform instead the infrared light.
Apr 15, 2020 // Technology, NREL, Germany, Europe, solar cell, efficiency, CIGS, Steve Albrecht, Marko Jost
Manz to partly return to procedures after Easter
The PV manufacturing devices supplier claimed its workers will certainly go back to operate at to 2 areas in Germany as intended after the Easter break, regardless of problems regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apr 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Germany, Italy, Europe, Martin Drasch, covid-19, WESTERN EUROPE, Manz
Software program for digital nuclear power plant powered by property solar-plus-storage
With its sonnenVPP, German battery business Sonnen intends to boost the effectiveness of online nuclear power plant which it states can use key harmonizing power from residences with solar and also storage space and also can run approximately 90% even more cost-effectively.
Apr 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Storage, Software, Germany, Europe, solar-plus-storage, VPP, Sonnen, Jean-Baptiste Cornefert
Huge solar PV success with 20 years of EEG
Twenty years of EEG: For several, this is a factor to commemorate; for challengers, a factor to curse. Despite your analysis, the success of the EEG in developing solar photovoltaics as an essential power resource is remarkable as well as will certainly transform the globe right. Solar energy is currently less costly than all various other power kinds as well as is offered on a mass range.
Apr 9, 2020 // Opinions, Germany, Europe, CARSTEN PFEIFFER, BNE, KARL-HEINZ REMMERS, SOLARPRAXIS AG
New process for kesterite solar cells with 10% efficiency
German scientists have established a brand-new process for the development of a stage pure kesterite Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe), which they claim can improve the product homogeneity and also reduce the well-known concern of tin losses. The new method is based on piled essential and also alloyed forerunners with a Zn/Cu-Sn/Zn precursor framework.
Apr 8, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency
Fraunhofer ISE evaluates vehicle-integrated PV in business vehicles
2 Fraunhofer institutes as well as 4 commercial gamers are interacting to create a principle that will certainly help with using vehicle-integrated solar components in electrical automobiles and also vehicles. The three-year "Lade PV" project will certainly likewise concentrate on PV parts and also producing procedures.
Apr 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Transport, Germany, Europe, solar modules, Christoph Kutter
Tesvolt begins business storage system manufacturing at gigafactory in spite of Covid-19
The German producer has actually begun to generate its initial business storage space systems at its brand-new plant under rigorous security preventative measures because of the recurring Covid-19 pandemic. The center's existing yearly capability is evaluated 255 MWh, yet the business intends to at some point increase that to 1 GWh.
Apr 3, 2020 // Storage, Germany, Europe, covid-19, Tesvolt, Daniel Hannemann, Simon Schandert