North America

Two tactical Euro solar deals reported
State-owned power firm China Three Gorges is reportedly prepared to provide to EUR600 billion for 13 solar possessions possessed by X-Elio in Spain while Germany's ib vogt is up for sale, according to Reuters.
Jul 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, Switzerland, North America, x-elio, Three Gorges
NIPSCO Announces 2 Solar Projects Worth 300 MW in Indiana
NIPSCO has actually announced the next phase of its strategies to change to cleaner power resources, with the enhancement of 2 new solar projects in central Indiana.
Jul 20, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Indiana, nipsco, International, solar projects, NiSource, Mike Hooper, Matt Handel
CIT Leads Financing for 108 MW Solar Project in North Carolina
The CIT Group's Power and Energy system acted as lead arranger on a USD 126 million financing for the 108 MW Trent River Solar project in North Carolina.
Jul 20, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North Carolina, North America, International, CIT, Solar Project, Ben Catt
The cost of building more powerful PV systems
Researchers in the U.S. have actually approximated the cost of reinforcing solar systems. The scientists emphasized that the upfront financial investment required to take 13 key actions might be exceeded by the benefits.
Jul 20, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, USA, NREL, North America
Solar-plus-storage has a 99.8% capability value in California
" The energy from solar can constantly charge a 4-hour storage device having actually the exact same set up capability" prior to the hours of peak demand, states a new study.
Jul 20, 2020 // Storage, USA, solar-plus-storage, North America
Dealing with a downturn? Not utility-scale solar!
Utility-scale solar power has shrugged off any type of financial headwinds to tape-record a strong initial fifty percent, according to today's figures from Wiki-Solar. Global set up capability rose to over 240 GWAC, with 24 GW of brand-new setups-- over half of 2019's record full-year total.
Jul 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Market Research, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America
2020 Annual Technology Baseline Electricity Data Now Available
Power analysts, modelers, and system organizers, the delay mores than: the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has actually released the 2020 update to its Annual Technology Baseline (ATB), an essential source of trusted electricity-generation technology expense and also performance information that can sustain and also educate electrical industry analysis in the United States.
Jul 17, 2020 // Market Research, USA, NREL, North America, doe, ATB, Laura Vimmerstedt
New Catalytic Process Turns Renewable and also Waste Carbon right into Cleaner, High-Performance Diesel Biofuel Blendstock
A new single-phase stimulant that makes it possible for the conversion of sustainable and waste carbon into lasting diesel fuels has actually been established through a special cooperation in between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) consortia, Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy (ChemCatBio) and the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) effort.
Jul 17, 2020 // Market Research, USA, NREL, carbon, North America, Derek Vardon, diesel fuels
CPV-solar thermal system providing LCOE of $0.03/ kWh.
Researchers have actually created a device to generate electricity as well as vapor at the same time. The system is stated to offer 85.1% efficiency and also supply steam at approximately 248 degrees Celsius. The converter incorporates III-- V, triple-junction solar cells as well as a high-efficiency solar thermal system based upon parabolic trough enthusiasts.
Jul 16, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, efficiency, Louisiana
AFRL works together in break-through solar energy growth
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in growing an innovation for producing high-efficiency solar cells in a high-throughput, inexpensive way by means of a modern technology called vibrant hydride vapor stage epitaxy, or D-HVPE.
Jul 15, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, solar cells, North America, David Wilt, efficiency, D-HVPE
Roof solar window based on semi-transparent perovskite solar cells
A prototype of an energy-harvesting, solar-powered smart home window tool has actually been created by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The home window was produced by incorporating a semi-transparent perovskite solar cell and a multi-layer nanophotonic finishing.
Jul 15, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, solar window, Argonne National Laboratory
Cooling down mechanism increases solar power harvesting for self-powered outside sensors
Sensors positioned in the atmosphere invest long periods of time outdoors via all climate condition, as well as they should continuously power themselves in order to accumulate data. Lots of, like photovoltaic cells, make use of the sunlight to produce electricity, yet powering outdoor sensing units at night is a challenge.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, cooling, Satoshi Ishii
Newer solar power tools ages much better than older devices
Utility-scale photovoltaics, ground-mounted projects larger than 5 megawatts of rotating current, are the largest industry of the general solar market within the U.S. as well as the fastest-growing kind of sustainable power generation.
Jul 14, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, utility-scale, North America, pv projects, Mark Bolinger
LF Energy and also the quest of a modularized grid
LF Energy has actually launched its Digital Substation Automation Systems campaign, in hopes of developing an extra modular, versatile and also durable grid. It aims to make interoperable substations that are both software and hardware agnostic.
Jul 14, 2020 // Grids, USA, North America, LF Energy, Shuli Goodman
Princeton chemists resolve beginning of perovskite instability
Scientists in the Cava Group at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry have demystified the reasons for instability in an inorganic perovskite that has actually brought in large attention for its potential in creating extremely reliable solar cells.
Jul 13, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, perovskite, North America, Cava Group, Daniel Straus, Robert Cava, Milinda Abeykoon