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Northern Territory hails 10GW solar-plus-storage project in net-zero plan
Australia’s Northern Territory has unveiled a new target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in a policy document that touts solar and backs a proposed 10GW/20-30GWh solar-plus-storage plant earmarked to provide energy to the region and Singapore.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, Solar to Fuel, Northern Territory, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, carbon, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Element Energy Soars with $111M Series B Funding
Element Energy just closed a $111 Million Series B investment to deploy its adaptive battery management systems. Co-led by a US clean energy giant & Cohort Ventures, it will use the funds to power 1st & 2nd life batteries, explore EV batteries, & acquire 2+ GWh of lightly-used EVs.
Nov 15, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Element Energy
Smartenergy Expands to Abu Dhabi: Green Hydrogen Investment Soars
Smartenergy's expansion to Abu Dhabi marks a strategic move to tap into global financial markets and drive renewable energy investments in industries like aviation and maritime.
Apr 19, 2024 // Solar to Fuel, Abu Dhabi, Smartenergy
SPIC and Piaui Govt Unveil 446-MWp Solar Park
Marangatu Solar Complex lights the way for sustainable energy in Brazil, attracting green industries and international partnerships for a brighter future.
Jun 10, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, SPIC, PV Power Plant, Piaui Govt
Star Catcher Secures $12.2m for Space Energy Grid
Revolutionizing space energy with the Star Catcher Network, Star Catcher Industries Inc secures $12.2 million in funding for a brighter future in Low Earth Orbit.
Jul 30, 2024 // Grids, Star Catcher
Researchers open affordable product from solar cells to adjust light for market
Scientists in Australia have actually discovered a means to control laser light at a portion of the expense of present innovation.
Feb 19, 2020 // Technology, Australia, solar cells, Oceania, perovskites, Girish Lakhwani
EDF joins Downing on 50MW UK storage space
Energy company selected as route-to-market and trading companion on the battery project
Feb 22, 2021 // Storage, UK, EDF, Europe, Adam Clarke, Sean Moore, Philip Dedman, Danny Kim
‘Energy storage is not enough, a renewables grid needs flexible gas back-up’
The managing director of London-based energy infrastructure company Statera has told pv magazine a clean energy grid in the U.K. will require as much flexible gas plant capacity as battery storage.
Sep 1, 2019 // Plants, Storage, Grids, storage, UK, Europe, flexible gas plant, Statera, Tom Vernon
Kesterite Supplies A Pathway To Greener Solar Cells
Kesterite is a natural mineral with numerous vital product residential or commercial properties, including a band space that can be utilized as a light absorber material for next generation thin-film solar cells.
Jun 3, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cell, thin-film solar cell, efficiency, IIITDM, Kesterite, SRM University, University of Oldernburg
There's something fishy about this flow battery development
Researchers led by MIT have suggested chitin, a carbon and also nitrogen-rich material made from waste shrimp coverings, might create sustainable electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries as well as other energy storage innovations.
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Massachusetts, MIT, North America, Francisco Martin-Martinez
USTC makes development in solar cell performance
A study team led by Prof. CHEN Tao and also Prof. ZHU Changfei, and also their partner Prof. HAO Xiaojing at UNSW, created a hydrothermal deposition approach for the synthesis of antimony selenosulfide for solar cell applications. With this absorber material, the solar cell break the 10% benchmark performance obstacle. This outcome has actually been released in Nature Energy entitled "Hydrothermal deposition of antimony selenosulfide thin films enables solar cells with 10% performance".
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, China, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, Chen Tao, Hao Xiaojing, ZHU Changfei
Swiss scientists identify causes of defects in silicon carbides for power electronics
Carbon clusters of a few nanometers in size could be responsible for the defects affecting the thermal stability of SiCs. The defective carbon accumulations arise during the oxidation of silicon carbide to silicon dioxide under high temperatures
Sep 13, 2019 // Technology, Inverters, Europe, Switzerland, carbon, Dipanwita Dutta
The ballooning potential of curved solar cells
Researchers in the U.S. claim to have developed a manufacturing process based on the use of a latex balloon that could lead to the production of more efficient curved electronic devices, including hemispherical solar cells.
Sep 27, 2019 // Technology, USA, Texas, Colorado, North America, flexible PV, hemispherical solar cells
A nanoparticle-sensitized solar cell with 8.5% effectiveness
The record feat compares to usual figures of 2-3% for such devices. The Taiwanese scientists who developed the cell said it was prepared with the Silar method and is based on a ternary metal sulfide-alloyed semiconductor. They claim performance could be further boosted.
Feb 18, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, Taiwan, efficiency
Solving seasonal storage with aluminum cycling
Scientists at Switzerland’s University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil have demonstrated an aluminum conversion process which could be valuable for long-term renewable energy storage. Simulations suggest that by employing the process, a new multi-family building in Switzerland could meet all its energy demand from a 7-11 kWp solar system.
Jan 23, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Europe, hydrogen, Switzerland, Aluminum, University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil











