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Rice University engineers have accomplished a new standard in the style of atomically thin solar cells made from semiconducting perovskites, increasing their performance while keeping their capacity to withstand the atmosphere.

The first 9 months of 2021 saw US utility-scale solar additions get to 8,410 MW, a 38% increase on the exact same time last year, according to an analysis of new government information by research organisation Sun Day Campaign.

Apollo Funds will obtain 50% share in Broad Reach Power from existing capitalist EnCap as well as its partners

Four even more solar farms have actually been authorized: Cadence Solar Energy Project; Marion County Solar Project; Juliet Energy Project; Sycamore Creek Solar Project. These projects give 18 the number of solar farms to be approved this year by the Ohio Power Siting Board

The United States House of Representatives has actually passed Joe Biden's Build Back Better act, which now transfers to the Us senate, where negotiations will proceed over the legislation that consists of clean power and also environment investments amounting to US$ 555 billion.

Canadian Solar has actually warned of solar cell overcapacity next year, pounding the breaks by itself cell manufacturing expansion strategies while accelerating on its module assembly roadmap.

Maxeon Solar Technologies is overhauling its logistics approach after a shipping "logjam" credited to the module manufacturer missing its Q3 deliveries advice.

Clean energy company Intersect Power LLC said on Thursday it has actually acquired USD 2.6 billion (EUR 2.3 bn) in funding dedications to sustain the construction as well as procedure of a six-project portfolio with 2.2 GW DC of late-stage solar and also 1.4 GWh of storage ability.

Consumers Energy announced contracts to include almost 400 megawatts of clean energy from 3 Michigan solar projects in southerly main Michigan. The solar growths are part of the firm's Clean Energy Plan to significantly boost renewable resource, remove coal as a gas resource for power by 2025 as well as achieve net absolutely no carbon exhausts by 2040.

Maxeon Solar Technologies will supply approximately 400 MW of its high-efficiency bifacial Performance 5 UPP solar panels for the building and construction of the Danish Fields Solar power plant project found near Houston, Texas.

The U.S. Patent and also Trademark Office has granted Solar Inventions a patent on its better architecture for solar photovoltaic cells, the company revealed today, opening the door to industrial approval and also licensing by leading suppliers.

3 projects at 150MW each are arranged to go into commercial procedure at the start of 2024

Microinverter distributor Enphase Energy has actually entered the electric vehicle (EV) charging field with the acquisition of charging station supplier ClipperCreek.

Renewables designer as well as investment company Prospect14 has offered around 1GWdc of solar and also solar-plus-storage projects in Virginia and also Pennsylvania.

Hanwha Solutions Corporation has accepted buy a 16.67% risk in Norwegian polysilicon manufacturer REC Silicon in a deal worth around US$ 160 million, with the South Korean chemical company looking to resume REC Silicon's 20,000 MT polysilicon factory in the United States.