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Solar Market Insight Report 2020 Q4
The quarterly SEIA/Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables U.S. Solar Market InsightTM report shows the significant fads in the U.S. solar industry. Find out more concerning the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report. Released December 15, 2020.
Dec 18, 2020 // Market Research, USA, North America
Biden's climate as well as energy team invited by United States renewables industry
The United States renewable energy industry has actually applauded Joe Biden's environment team nominations and also visits, as the President-elect states he intends to develop a tidy energy future for the country.
Dec 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, ITC, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Joe Biden, Gregory Wetstone, Gina McCarthy, Jennifer Granholm
Quantum wells allow record-efficiency two-junction solar cell
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and also the University of New South Wales attained a new world-record performance for two-junction solar cells, producing a cell with two light-absorbing layers that transforms 32.9% of sunshine into electrical power.
Dec 18, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, solar cell, North America, efficiency, Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Myles Steiner
McCarthy completes 128-MW solar project in Utah
McCarthy Building Companies' Renewable Energy as well as Storage Group just recently celebrated the completion of building and also final appointing of the 128-MWdc Milford Solar I Project in Beaver County, Utah.
Dec 18, 2020 // Plants, USA, North America, Solar Project, McCarthy, Whitney Voute, Scott Canada
Apex Clean Energy safeguards US$ 200m refinancing
Apex Clean Energy has actually closed its refinancing round with US$ 200 million to establish more utility-scale wind, solar and storage projects in the United States.
Dec 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Apex Clean Energy, hybrid, North America, refinancing, wind and solar, Mark Goodwin
Ormat Acquires Shovel-Ready Texas Energy Storage Project
Ormat Technologies Inc. has finished the acquisition of a shovel-ready power storage property in Upton County, Texas.
Dec 18, 2020 // Storage, USA, Ormat Technologies, North America, Doron Blachar
R Craig Kennedy Sells 550 Shares of First Solar, Inc.
Stock First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Director R Craig Kennedy sold 550 shares of the company's supply in a purchase on Tuesday, December 15th.
Dec 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, North America, R Craig Kennedy
2020 Trends Making and also Braking Roof Solar in the South
Today the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) announced its 2020 Solar "Makers" as well as "Brakers" checklist highlighting several of one of the most impactful policies influencing rooftop solar growth throughout the warm South.
Dec 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, USA, North America, Southern Environmental Law Center, SELC, Lauren Bowen
US introduces US$ 45m in funding for solar and also integration projects
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will certainly reserve US$ 45 million to develop technology that will enable businesses to bring "big amounts of solar" onto the grid.
Dec 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, funding, Dan Brouillette, doe, solar hardware
Home improvement chain Lowe's indications PPA for 250MW from Illinois solar farm
United States house renovation business Lowe's strategies to obtain renewable resource from a solar project for the very first time after securing a manage designer Swift Current Energy.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, North America, Illinois, swift current energy
15 companies look to invest $3 billion in solar production
Firms checking out chances to build solar wafer, cell, module abilities
Dec 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, North America, Raj Kumar Singh, Vikram Solar, narendra modi, Saibaba Vutukuri, ACME Solar, 1366 Technologies
Capital Dynamics and NIPSCO indicator power purchase arrangement in US
Capital Dynamics' Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) company has signed a 280MW power acquisition contract (PPA) with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of utility firm NiSource.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Capital Dynamics, USA, PPA, North America, Benoit Allehaut, nipsco, Mike Hooper
Shell-backed Silicon Ranch closes funding to sustain more than 1GW of brand-new solar
United States independent power producer Silicon Ranch Corporation has actually shut an investment round that brought in US$ 225 million in new equity capital.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America, shell, Silicon Ranch, capital raise, Reagan Farr, Elisabeth Brinton
A brand-new technique for the functionalization of graphene
A global study group including Professor Federico Rosei of the Institut nationwide de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown a novel procedure to modify the framework as well as residential or commercial properties of graphene.
Dec 16, 2020 // Technology, Canada, France, UK, China, Europe, Asia, North America, Denmark, Graphene, Federico Rosei, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS
100-MW battery project to be set up in Queens for Con Edison
74 Power Global as well as Con Edison have authorized a seven-year send off legal rights contract for the advancement of a 100-MW power storage project, the East River Energy Storage System in Astoria, Queens.
Dec 16, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Henry Yun, Storage Project, Tim Cawley, Gil C. Quinones