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Planted Solar Revolutionizes Solar Farm Development with Robots
Planted Solar revolutionizes solar farm development with $20M in funding, cutting costs and land use by 50%. A game-changer in renewable energy innovation.
Jun 19, 2024 // Software, startup, Planted Solar
Vertical Panels: The Future of Solar Farming in the US
Next2Sun's agrivoltaics projects bring vertical solar panels to the US, maximizing land use and offering protection for crops and soil health. Collaboration with iSun in Vermont marks a new milestone.
Jan 17, 2024 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Germany, Europe, PV module, North America, startup, Next2Sun
Beaming Solar Power From Space: Orbital & Virtus Join Forces
Orbital Composites and Virtus Solis join forces to develop a megawatt-scale space-based solar power station that will beam energy down to Earth. Japan and China are already investing and it could revolutionize renewable energy worldwide. Learn more.
Jun 22, 2023 // Technology, startup, Orbital Composites, Virtus Solis
Australian clean tech Endua fixes renewable energy's intermittency problem
One significant problem with renewable resource resources like wind, solar as well as hydro is intermittency. This suggests they can not be counted on constantly given that, for example, the sun could stop beaming or it might be a still, windless day.
May 23, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Solar to Fuel, Australia, Oceania, startup, Endua, Ampol
Flexible Solar Moves One Step Closer to Mass Market With DaZheng
Laboratory breakthroughs in perovskite cell modern technology have been plenty, yet mass manufacture is a big deal indeed. Solar applications will explode worldwide if rates of flexible solar truly boil down to the degrees DaZheng has actually promised.
Jul 19, 2022 // Manufacturing News, solar market, startup, perovskite solar cells, solar efficiency, Solar innovation, breakthrough, DaZheng, flexible solar films, mass production of flexible solar, Solar Applications
Energy Vault declares 100MWh gravity storage space project in China will begin building and construction in Q2
A 100MWh gravity-based energy storage system established by Energy Vault is expected to begin building and construction in China in the second quarter of this year, the Swiss-American startup has actually claimed.
Feb 4, 2022 // Storage, China, Asia, investment, startup, Energy Vault, project news, nyse, SPAC, gravity energy storage, licensing
The Hydrogen Stream: More huge scale hydrogen for Port of Rotterdam
Somewhere else, French renewable hydrogen start-up Lhyfe has announced it is building an electrolyzer in eastern Germany, and also Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas has actually launched a hydrogen-powered drone to check its gas grid.
Jan 12, 2022 // Solar to Fuel, USA, France, Germany, Europe, hydrogen, North America, startup, Lhyfe, Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, Hydrogen Optimized, Emerson
Berlin-based Betteries Closes EUR2.1 m Seed Funding Round to Upcycle EV Batteries
Betteries, a startup based in Berlin which upcycles electric automobile (EV) batteries right into economical power systems, revealed that it has actually efficiently closed its Euro 2.1 m seed funding round led by impact funds Factor [e] Ventures and also Beyond Black.
Mar 30, 2021 // Storage, Berlin, startup, EV Battery, Betteries, Upcycling, Jit Bhattacharya, Rainer Hönig
'Every step' of lithium battery worth chain will certainly have a passion in recycling
It will certainly be in the rate of interests of more or less everybody associated with the "wider lithium-ion battery supply chain" to develop efficient reusing communities, according to an analyst with IHS Markit.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, IHS Markit, recycling, North America, Youmin Rong, startup, lithium battery, Chloe Holzinger, Kunal Phalpher, Li-Cycle
Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?
California is checking Canadian start-up e-Zinc's long-duration modern technology to keep companies powered through wildfires and failures.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, North America, startup, Zinc Battery, James Larsen
Sunfolding seeks to disrupt the tracker sector with air pneumatics
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.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, USA, North America, startup, Sunfolding, Gwen Rose
Solar projects enable biodiversity
Eco-Tec, an Austrian PV business, is accepting a start-up, Meine Blumenwiese, to ecologically update ground-mounted solar projects. The two companies aim to create clean power while likewise creating brand-new environments for a variety of bugs as well as animals.
Sep 1, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Germany, Europe, startup, Eco-Tec, Meine Blumenwiese
Skilancer launches water-free module cleaner for residential rooftop solar plants
With the current robotic cleaning offering, the startup aims to record the residential solar market that currently stands at an ability of 4400 MW and is anticipated to get to 8500 MW by the end of 2020.
Jul 15, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Residential, India, Asia, startup, Skilancer, Manish Das
US sodium-ion battery programmer raises $35M as storage space financial investment surges
Start-up Natron Energy is constructing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and also a sodium-ion electrolyte. Capitalists include ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Chevron, Khosla Ventures, and also Prelude Ventures.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Chevron, startup, Form Energy, QuantumScape, Natron Energy, ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Khosla Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Colin Wessells, Eos Energy Storage, Quidnet
Solar arrays on wave power generators, in addition to wind generators
German start-up Sinn Power has actually integrated wave, wind and also solar energy to develop what it asserts is the globe's "initial floating sea crossbreed system."
May 26, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, startup, Sinn Power, Philipp Sinn