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With $32 million in collection B financing as well as an ever-growing project pipe, air-based tracker start-up, Sunfolding, is hoping to raise its keep in the tracker market with tech that's straightforward, light as well as can be set up on terrain previously believed untouchable.

Coming out of stealth-mode, US-based integrated PV panel production startup, Violet Power intends to interfere with the PV industry with internal manufacturing of high-efficiency IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) solar cells. The company will certainly use cell-to-module 'flex circuit' as well as thermal plastic encapsulant innovation in a glass/glass setup that will have a solar panel guarantee of 50 years, greater than three times the standard in the market, today.

Cuba has recently broadened a 10-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant to 15 MW of overall capacity with the help of funding from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD).

The renewables arm of Canadian tissue products maker Kruger Inc has actually unloaded a 523-MW mid-stage solar advancement portfolio in the US to local firm Ecoplexus Inc

Lightsource bp has efficiently closed on a USD 20 million financing plan and mobilised building on its Wildflower Solar project in California.

The United States energy storage space market saw its strongest Q2 on record for releases, according to Wood Mackenzie and the United States ESA's newest report

Indian PV producer Waaree Energies is eyeing a significant push in the US market after receiving an order for greater than 300MW of mono PERC modules in the country.

The 10-year old solid-state battery home builder has actually secured more than $1 billion from investors, including Bill Gates, as part of its initiatives to win the EV battery race.

Enel begins operations at Texas' biggest solar project

A round-up of the most up to date news from the United States, where DTE Energy intends a significant solar development, Duke releases most current IRP as well as EDP Renováveis divests a bulk risk in 563MW of renewable projects.

Earlier this week Duke Energy Progress (DEP) introduced its 2020 Integrated Resource Plan, describing the possible source portfolios for both DEP and Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) over the course of the next 15 years.

A global team of researchers has found a 'room cost' system that explains why particular steel oxides utilized as electrodes in lithium-ion batteries show greater storage abilities than ought to be in theory possible. The research, according to the group, will open new pathways to the development of more advanced power storage space systems.

A brand-new white paper by Alencon details the distinctions in between PV-centric and also battery-centric coupling.

US wholesale electrical power supplier NextEra Energy Resources has stated 700MW of acquired battery power storage space sources it will deploy California within two years could be adhered to by a more 2,000 MW pipeline of battery projects under growth in the state.

Solar panels dominated the installation of brand-new power generation capacity last year, with nearly half of all brand-new ability coming from photovoltaic (PV) systems, brand-new research discloses.