North America

SunPower Secures $1 Billion in Solar Plus Storage Financing
SunPower has actually revealed that a brand-new USD 1 billion collaboration with Tech CU will certainly boost funding choices for certified United States domestic solar consumers.
May 6, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, SunPower Solar Financing, Tech CU, Norm Taffe, Deborah Crouch
U.S. Light Energy mounts New york city's second biggest neighborhood solar project
U.S. Light Energy, a New York solar power firm focusing on area solar project growth, and also its project companions finished the 7.2-MW Denmark Community Solar Project in Lewis County, New York.
May 5, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, U.S. Light Energy, Mark Richardson, Scott Wiater, Solar Project, James Der, Brittany Davis
Encore Renewable Energy accepted to set up 5-MW solar array in Maine
Encore Renewable Energy obtained allowing authorizations to start building on a 5-MW selection on underutilized land in Oakland, Maine.
May 5, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Encore Renewable Energy, Chad Farrell
Designers show next-generation solar cells can take the heat, keep effectiveness
Perovskites with their crystal frameworks as well as encouraging electro-optical homes could be the energetic component that makes the future generation of low-cost, effective, flexible as well as light-weight solar cells.
May 5, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, perovskites, Iowa, Vikram Dalal, Harshavardhan Gaonkar
United States nonrenewable fuel source developer goes solar with 350 MW project
The business economics of a solar project in Texas are so engaging coal as well as gas developer J-Power desires a piece of the action.
May 5, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, North America, Solar Project, J-Power, Mark Condon
A perovskite electrode to boost hydrogen manufacturing
The product was utilized by researchers in the U.S. in electrochemical cells which utilize electrical power to different heavy steam right into hydrogen and also oxygen. The scientists claim the oxide of perovskite made use of in the electrode enhances cell efficiency as well as minimizes running temperature levels.
May 5, 2020 // Technology, USA, hydrogen, perovskite, North America, Dong Ding
Spruce Financing Shuts $124 Mn Residential Solar Funding Plan
Spruce Finance has actually shut a USD 124 million financial debt funding bargain for its profile of property solar PPAs as well as leases with Vantage and also Sequoia
May 5, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, International, Spruce Finance, Christian Fong, Dolf Kohnhorst
Designers make an encouraging product steady sufficient for usage in solar cells
Flexible and also soft products called halide perovskites can make solar cells a lot more reliable at considerably much less price, however they're also unpredictable to utilize.
May 4, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, solar cell, North America, perovskites, Purdue University, Letian Dou, Brett Savoie
J-Power Discovers Companions to Co-Develop 350 MW Solar Project in Texas
Solar Plus Development and also Avondale Solar have actually participated in a contract with J-Power USA to collectively establish a 350 MW solar project in Texas
May 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, International, Solar Project, Avondale, J-Power, Solar Plus Development, Trevor Nash, Mark Condon
SCE Signs 7 Contracts for 770 MW of Battery Energy Storage Capacity
SCE has actually authorized 7 agreements completing 770 MW of battery-based power storage space sources to assist boost California's electrical system integrity requirements.
May 4, 2020 // Storage, California, USA, North America, International, SCE, William Walsh
NREL as well as colleges create U.S. Production of Advanced Perovskites Consortium
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of Washington, the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hillside, and the College of Toledo have with each other created the U.S. Production of Advanced Perovskites Consortium (US-MAP), which will certainly function to increase commercialization of perovskite innovations.
Apr 30, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, NREL, solar cells, perovskite, North America, Martin Keller, Joseph J. Berry
Standard Solar mounts 12 solar carports for Arizona fire department
Criterion Solar finished a 12-building solar carport job for the Northwest Fire District in Tucson, Arizona.
Apr 30, 2020 // Rooftop PV, USA, Arizona, North America, Standard Solar, Jason Feng
Invenergy powers on 160-MW Georgia solar power plant
Industrial operations have begun at Invenergy's largest solar project to date, the 160-MW Southern Oak Solar Power Center, located in Mitchell Area, Georgia.
Apr 30, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Georgia, Europe, North America, Tim Jordan, Bryan Schueler, Paige Gilchrist
LCOE from huge range PV dropped 4% to $50 per megawatt-hour in 6 months
Experts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance claim the lowest-cost projects funded in Australia, China, Chile as well as the UAE in the last 6 months struck a levelized price of power of simply $23-29/ MWh and also the most effective solar and also wind projects will certainly create power for less than $20/MWh by 2030.
Apr 30, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, China, Australia, LCOE, Chile, South america, Brazil, Asia, Oceania, United Arab Emirates, North America, middle east, WORLD, United States
Scientists take on a brand-new possibility to create high-energy batteries
In the last few years, lithium-ion batteries have actually progressed at providing power to Soldiers in the field, yet the present generation of batteries never ever reaches its greatest power possibility. Military scientists are exceptionally concentrated on fixing this obstacle as well as supplying the power Soldiers need.
Apr 29, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Lithium-ion batteries, North America, Oleg Borodin, Chunsheng Wang