North America

Blackstone dedicates US$ 250m to new dispersed power financial investments
Investment firm Blackstone has actually created a brand-new portfolio firm that will finance and also possess dispersed energy assets concentrated on business, commercial and institutional customers.
Sep 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, C&I, North America, Distributed Energy, blackstone, cleargen, gso capital partners, private equity, George Plattenburg, Collin Franceschi
Lightsource BP to develop Texas solar park after safeguarding digital PPA
United States aerospace as well as support business L3Harris Technologies has actually authorized a virtual power acquisition contract (PPA) with Lightsource BP for up to 100MW of capability from a new solar farm in Texas.
Sep 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, PPA, Texas, Lightsource BP, North America, Kevin Smith, virtual ppa
Hemlock Semiconductor comes to be up and down integrated polysilicon maker
The U.S. polysilicon supplier has gotten DuPont's trichlorosilane service, in a relocation that will certainly assist it reduce manufacturing expenses as well as control supply.
Sep 21, 2020 // Manufacturing News, USA, North America, Hemlock Semiconductor, Mark Bassett
Juwi signs PPA for 175MW solar project with 25MW of battery storage in Colorado
The US unit of German developer and EPC provider juwi has actually inked a power purchase arrangement (PPA) with Colorado Springs Utilities for a 175MW solar project paired with a 25MW battery storage system.
Sep 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, PPA, Colorado, solar-plus-storage, power purchase agreement, North America, Colorado Springs Utilities, juwi, us utility, Jill Gaebler
Probabilistic model shows PV module warranty reliability
U.S.-Spanish researchers have actually proposed a brand-new way to examine the dependability of PV modules as well as their service warranties. It is impossible to satisfy a 25-year guarantee if the limit of returned modules exceeds 5% and the yearly destruction rate is over 0.73%.
Sep 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Spain, Europe, PV module, North America, Manuel Vazquez Lopez
Nextracker inks 1 GW supply bargain and claims approximately 12% bifacial yield gain
The 1 GW 5th stage of the Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai will certainly feature NX Horizon trackers with the bargain revealed after the supplier published new bifacial return gain cases.
Sep 18, 2020 // Manufacturing News, California, USA, Asia, United Arab Emirates, North America, Nextracker, Dan Shugar
Solaria brings its license claims against Canadian Solar to ITC, adding a 3rd license
Californian solar module supplier Solaria Corporation has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to release an exemption order to prevent the sale in the United States of Canadian Solar shingled solar modules it declares infringe its patents.
Sep 18, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, California, USA, Canada, Canadian Solar, China, Asia, solaria, North America, United States
California presents brand-new web metering program
The state's new net metering is a very anticipated, high-stakes case. It will successfully change the policies for the net metering tariff in California, which is arguably one of the most important policy mechanism for customer-sited solar of the last decade.
Sep 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Policy, USA, CPUC, North America, NEM tariff
Duke unveils 'future generation net metering', Maxeon bolsters leadership team
Duke Energy coordinate with market to bring 'next generation internet metering' to South Carolina. Maxeon includes in management group complying with Sunpower spin-off
Sep 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Sunrun, Duke Energy, North America, 8minute Solar Energy, Carolina, Maxeon Solar Technologies, generac
Plasma allows smaller sized, much more effective NMC-811 cathodes
Batteries could shrink much more with smaller crystals in the cathodes Battery crams in electrical cars and also durable goods can lessen, while still offering high performance.
Sep 17, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, Richard Holman, Aaron Bent
From tandem cell to double absorber for 34.45% performance
Researchers in the United States theorize that a 'double absorber' cell comprising 2 energetic thin-film layers within one cell stack can achieve impressive efficiencies, whilst removing a lot of the obstacles intrinsic to the style of tandem cells. For now however, it's only on paper.
Sep 17, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, efficiency
Tesla battery day bingo
Tesla battery day is following week. Earlier this year, Elon Musk informed analysts that what he needed to claim "will certainly blow your mind. It strikes my mind." Here's a listing of battery exaggeration as well as terms you're bound to listen to at the occasion.
Sep 17, 2020 // Storage, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, North America, Thomas Edison
National lithium-ion battery supply chains placed
Experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance have actually quantified the impact of markets worldwide. The ranking products a photo of 25 nations and also provides a five-year overview.
Sep 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Japan, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, South Korea, China, Europe, Asia, North America, Finland, Bloomberg, Kwasi Ampofo, James Frith
In theory, 2 layers are much better than one for solar-cell performance
Solar cells have actually come a long way, however affordable, thin film solar cells are still far behind extra pricey, crystalline solar cells in performance. Now, a team of scientists recommends that utilizing 2 thin films of different products may be the way to head to develop budget friendly, slim film cells with around 34% effectiveness.
Sep 16, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, efficiency, Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Suntech opens up 1GW integrated cell and also module assembly plant in Indonesia for US market
Significant incorporated PV module supplier, Suntech has started ramping a 1GW incorporated cell and also module assembly plant in Indonesia, predominantly to serve the US market that takes its nameplate module setting up capacity over 10GW.
Sep 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, pv power plants, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, Asia, solar cell, monocrystalline wafer, PERC, Indonesia, North America, Suntech, large-area wafers