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SEIA concerns new protocol to promote ethical solar supply chains
The US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has introduced a new tool to make it simpler for solar designers to map where their modules and modern technologies are made and make sure an ethical supply chain.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, SunPower, North America, labour, solar supply chain, Suzanne Leta, xingjiang
Advanced Power Accomplishes Financial Close of 140-MWdc Cutlass Solar project
Advanced Power introduced today that it has successfully closed the funding of Cutlass Solar, a 140-MWdc photovoltaic solar electrical creating facility situated in Fort Bend Region, Texas. Advanced Power, along with its co-investors, ENEOS Firm ("ENEOS") and Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd. ("Fuyo"), are the owners of the facility.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, North America, Renewable Energy, Photovoltaic Solar, Advanced Power, Cutlass Solar, ENEOS Corporation, Fort Bend County, Thomas Spang
United States solar energy grows by 26% in 2020
Last year simply under 91,000 m KWh of solar thermal as well as photovoltaic power was created
Apr 28, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Rex Pascual
Enphase beats Q1 advice but semiconductor scarcities weigh heavy on forecasts
Enphase Energy beat its profits advice in Q1 2021 as the microinverter supplier left to a strong start to 2021, nevertheless a recurring semiconductor lack has weighed heavy on assistance for the rest of the year.
Apr 28, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, Enphase Energy, inverter, North America, Badri Kothandaraman, microinverter, semiconductor shortage
Tesla solar growth continues however 'significant blunders' in roofing evaluations holding back Solar Roof development
Tesla's household solar growth has continued into Q1 2021, yet Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has admitted to running into major concerns in roofing system evaluations, which have put on hold installs of its Solar Roofing system product.
Apr 28, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, Solar Roof, North America, solar-storage, supply chain, powerwall
Research study paves the way for brand-new photosensitive products
Photocatalysts serve materials, with a myriad of environmental and power applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surface areas, pollution-fighting paints and coverings, hydrogen production as well as CO2 conversion to lasting gas.
Apr 28, 2021 // Technology, USA, North America, Scott Sayres, photosensitive materials
Origis Services chosen to handle O&M for 500-MW Texas solar project
Origis Services revealed it was chosen by Tokyo Gas America to take care of the company's 500-MWAC Aktina Solar project in Wharton County, Texas.
Apr 27, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Solar Project, Origis Services, Michael Eyman
Meyer Burger reveals three lines of HJT modules exceeding 400 W
Meyer Burger, the Swiss firm that, up until lately, produced heterojunction innovation (HJT) manufacturing tools for major solar module brands, is currently making its own modules for automation. The firm launched its product today that will certainly be available throughout Europe and also in the United States.
Apr 27, 2021 // Manufacturing News, USA, meyer burger, North America, solar module, moritz borgmann, HJT modules
Navisun adds 2 Massachusetts projects, launches pollinator plan
Independent power manufacturer (IPP) Navisun has finished 2 little utility-scale solar projects in Massachusetts that will certainly be utilized in its brand-new pollinator program.
Apr 27, 2021 // Plants, USA, IPP, North America, John Malloy, solar projects, Navisun
Leeward buys Tri Global's Indiana portfolio
Utility-scale renewables team Tri Global will market two projects in Indiana, amounting to 580MW capability, to Texas-based Leeward Renewable Energy.
Apr 27, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Jason Allen, leeward, Tri Global
Orsted indications Texas PV offtake with Merck
200MW Armadillo Solar Center in Navarro County is anticipated to be functional in early 2023
Apr 27, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Orsted, Vishal Kapadia, Merck, Susanna Webber
New Consortium US-MAC intends to Raise CdTe PV Performance to 30%.
A timely reaction to the worldwide need for clean energy has actually originated from universities as well as research centres like Colorado State University (CSU), the Wright Center for Photovoltaics at the University of Toledo, as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in addition to US-based industrial solar business working with Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panel production, which have joined pressures to develop the UNITED STATE Production of Advanced Cadmium Telluride (US-MAC) photovoltaics consortium.
Apr 27, 2021 // Technology, USA, NREL, North America, efficiency, Martin Keller, CdTe PV, Colorado State University, CSU, Jim Sites
New york city launches 5th annual solicitation for large-scale renewables projects
New York Guv Andrew Cuomo has actually claimed more than 20 large-scale renewables projects will certainly be incomplete in the state this year, as he revealed its latest tidy energy solicitation.
Apr 27, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, New York, NYSERDA, ENERGY STORAGE, Andrew Cuomo, North America, CS Energy, David Gahl, renewables procurement
Tesla to just offer roof solar as incorporated product with Powerwall battery
Tesla will just market property roof solar alongside its Powerball battery as a single, integrated item, Elon Musk has stated.
Apr 23, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Rooftop PV, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, rooftop PV, North America
SunPower to mount solar parks at 2 closed landfills in Baltimore
United States solar panel maker SunPower Corp (NASDAQ: SPWR) on Wednesday announced a project with Baltimore county in Maryland to install greater than 30 MW of solar arrays at 2 shut garbage dumps.
Apr 22, 2021 // Plants, USA, SunPower, North America, Solar Park