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WoodMac: Bifacial solar poised to surge ten-fold by 2024
Bifacial PV stands on the edge of a boom across the world’s four corners as cost improvements and geopolitics strengthen the case for the budding technology, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Sep 25, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Wood Mackenzie, China, pv power plants, bifacial, Asia, North America, Xiaojing Sun
US solar to represent bulk of new generation capacity
FERC forecasts utility scale PV additions to virtually reach 73,000 MW between December 2022 and November 2025
Jan 19, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, FERC, North America
Microsoft is on a solar shopping spree
The tech giant has signed a power contract for the output of First Solar’s 150 MWac Sun Streams 2 solar plant, bringing its procurement of solar to almost 500 MW – but none of its PV projects have been completed yet.
Aug 1, 2019 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Solar, USA, Microsoft, Sun Streams2, Virginia, Apple, North America
United States Solar Output Increases by 26% in First Nine Months of 2022 Y-o-Y
According to the latest report from the nation's Energy Information Administration (EIA), solar PV generation boosted in the US throughout the initial 9 months of the year by 26.1% when contrasted to the same period last year.
Nov 30, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, EIA, International, sun day campaign, energy information administration, Electric Power Monthly, First Nine Months of 2022, Increases by 26%, renewable power capacity, solar PV generation, US Solar Output
Solar and wind outmatching all various other renewables development in US
Solar power result in the US outmatched all other renewables and also grew by nearly a quarter (24.3%) in the initial 3 months of 2021 contrasted to last year, new information from the country's Energy Information Administration (EIA) has revealed
May 27, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, EIA, Renewable Electricity, sun day campaign, us renewables, energy information administration
Econergy sells 214-MW Romanian PV project to Turkish group
Econergy's strategic divestment of Niculesti solar project in Romania to Tupras for EUR 33 million marks a profitable move towards income source diversification.
Jun 24, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Romania, PV Power Plant, Econergy
Borrego will certainly construct its initial solar projects in Montana and South Dakota for Greenbacker
Solar installer Borrego has actually been chosen by Greenbacker Renewable Energy to engineer and also construct two utility-scale solar projects in Montana and South Dakota.
Oct 28, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Charles Wheeler, North America, PV Power Plant, borrego, Brian Barker
Alliant Energy upgrades 2.55-MW Iowa solar plant with storage
Greater than 9,500 solar panels currently produce clean power at Alliant Energy's brand-new Marshalltown Solar Garden in Marshalltown, Iowa. This pilot project integrates solar energy and battery storage space to create, shop and provide power to clients.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, North America, alliant energy, PV Power Plant, Terry Kouba
Tesla’s Cybertruck will have a solar charging option, says Musk
Tesla revealed its Cybertruck pickup last night, a SciFi-tastic wedge built from the same steel alloy that SpaceX is using for its Starship spaceship.
Nov 23, 2019 // Transport, TESLA, Elon Musk, Cybertruck
BIPV panels covering an entire building in Taiwan
The Sun Rock structure is possessed by Taiwan's power utility Taipower. It was covered with 4,000 square meters of PV panels deployed by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV.
Jan 19, 2022 // BIPV, Taiwan, BIPV panels, MVRDV, Winy Maas
Floating solar pilot project near Canary Islands to face up to 10m-high waves
European Union financing has actually been protected for a floating solar pilot project in Spain to check out exactly how the technology does in testing sea problems.
Jan 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Spain, floating PV, Europe, canary islands, Ocean Sun, fred olsen renewables, offshore solar, Rolf Benjamin Johansen
Panda Green’s hopes of postponing debt are dashed
The heavily-indebted, Chinese state-owned solar project developer now has ten days to rustle up $242 million after a debt restructuring proposal was accepted by less than a third of its creditors.
Jan 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Panda Green
ib vogt closes €55m to build 68.4-MWp Romanian solar
ib vogt reached financial close with €55m to build a 68.4-MWp solar farm in northwestern Romania, clearing the way for construction.
Nov 17, 2025 // Plants, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Europe, ib vogt, Romania, construction, project finance
Ingeteam supplies inverters to 210MW solar in Brazil
2 plants are had by Mercury Renew as well as located in the state of Pernambuco
Mar 14, 2022 // Inverters, South america, Brazil, Ingeteam
The Pros and Cons of Using Solar Energy
Amidst all the discussions about using renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar power to save the environment, there is also a school of thought that highlights the drawbacks of using solar energy.
Oct 7, 2019 // Solar, Solar Panels, photovoltaic systems, Paris