USA

US solar firm SunPower is to cut up to 160 jobs as part of a restructuring plan following the spin off of its manufacturing operations.

The current year is finishing positively for the American EV pioneer, bringing it a share price growth and a new investment in its outside-US manufacturing facility.

The American energy tech firm has recently unveiled its “Ensemble in a Box” solar-plus-storage set for 2 solar modules and a 640-watt 2-module microinverter.

Fairfax County is moving to buy energy from contractors who would install solar panels on more than 100 county buildings, part of a growing environmental effort that aims to remove protections against competition given to the powerful Dominion Energy company.

The mines once provided steady employment, now solar energy offers jobs for the next generation.

LS Power has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire EVgo, the largest public fast-charging network for EVs in the US

Falck Renewables and Eni have entered into a contract to jointly develop clean energy projects in the U.S.

Scientists at University at Buffalo (New York, US) have created thin films made from barium zirconium sulfide (BaZrS3) and confirmed that the materials have alluring electronic and optical properties predicted by theorists.

Finnish lender Nordea has called in a NOK150 million indemnity loan thought to have been taken out by REC Silicon ASA as a result of the bankruptcy of its Norwegian wafer manufacturing arm seven years ago.

The Pueblo Zoo, a US non-profit engaged in animal conservation and zookeeping, has agreed to subscribe to a 500-kW community solar garden that Pivot Energy developed in the state of Colorado.

U.S. scientists are trying to understand how non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NAFs) increase the efficiency of organic PV devices. They claim that methoxy groups embedded in the acceptors could facilitate an efficiency increase of approximately 6%.

Clayton, a Tennessee-based home builder of on-site- and off-site-built homes, has installed its first 200 kW solar carport system at its Clayton Sulphur Springs home building facility in Texas. Installed by Solar One, the impressive new solar panel system will allow the company to offset 30 to 40% of the facility’s on-demand electricity use with renewable energy while providing shade for its team members’ vehicles.

Delays and cancellation to connecting projects to the grid are likely to make the Unites States microgrid market to constrict by 17 percent.

1366 technollogy investing so much to ensure that they spend less time forming wafer with the use of molten silicon.

An American research team developed the new formula by applying to bifacial cells the Shockley-Queisser triangle, which is used to calculate the maximum theoretical efficiency of a monofacial solar cell using a single p-n junction technology. According to the group’s findings, the the triangle can help to clarify the deeper physical principles of the bifacial technology.