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China's Solar energy Growth to Soar in 2022 on Project Pipeline
Industry team sees installments between 75-90 gigawatts Huge desert setups as well as rooftop solar driving development
Feb 23, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, China, Asia, Wang Bohua
Iberdrola forges battery recycling collaboration
Spanish energy firm is collaborating with Glencore and also FCC Ámbito to establish a purpose-built facility
Apr 11, 2023 // Storage, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, Glencore, FCC Ámbito
Spain sets demand-led grid plan prioritizing hydrogen, renewables by 2030
Spain will invest EUR 13.59bn in its power grid by 2030, shifting focus to industrial demand, green hydrogen and large-scale renewable integration.
Sep 15, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, Solar to Fuel, Spain, Europe, hydrogen
Fortescue Proposes 644-MW Solar Park in Australia
Fortescue Future Industries plans a 644-MW solar park in Western Australia, boosting green energy and cutting carbon emissions for a sustainable future.
Mar 28, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, PV Power Plant, Fortescue Future Industries
Metlen Secures Refinancing for 530 MW Aussie Solar Projects
Metlen Energy & Metals boosts solar power in Australia with 530 MW refinancing, driving sustainable energy growth and financial agility.
Jun 18, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, PV Power Plant, Metlen Energy & Metals
China Boosts Solar Growth with Grid Rule Changes
China's new plan boosts renewable energy growth, but may impact profits for power plants. Clean energy stocks rise as government pushes for more solar and battery installations.
May 30, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia
Orsted commits to recycling solar panels
Designer has partnered with a United States specialist to procedure and recycle its end-of-life modules
Jun 7, 2023 // Manufacturing News, USA, solar panel, North America, Orsted
Low-Cost Perovskite Solar Cells: Nickel-Doped Graphite Solution
Explore the potential of cost-effective perovskite solar cells. Researchers from multiple institutions have developed an alternative to using costly metals with a nickel-doped graphite layer and a bismuth-indium alloy layer, enabling a simple painting process for low-cost fabrication. With the potential to reduce manufacturing costs by up to 1000x, solar energy may become more accessible.
Jun 27, 2023 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, graphite
Great opportunities for solar cells as building materials
Building integrated photovoltaics, BIPV, is an expanding renewable energy source. This innovation makes use of photovoltaic or pv products to change standard building materials on roofing systems and facades.
Nov 19, 2021 // BIPV, Technology, bipv, Europe, Building-integrated photovoltaics, University of Stavanger, Hassan Gholami
First Solar planning 150-MWac Arizona solar array for Microsoft data centers
First Solar announced that its Sun Streams 2 PV solar plant will power new energy-efficient data centers being built by Microsoft in Goodyear and El Mirage, Arizona. The 150-MWac facility, is being developed and constructed by First Solar in Maricopa County and will power the data centers under a 20-year agreement and will be operational in 2021.
Jul 31, 2019 // Large-Scale, USA, Arizona, First Solar, PV solar, Sun Streams, El Mirage, North America
Q CELLS supplies modules to portion of 370MW Angolan solar portfolio
Q CELLS has actually protected an offer to supply its modules to part of a 370MW portfolio of seven solar projects under development in Angola, the first of which is expected to be total next year.
Apr 21, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Q CELLS, Africa, Angola, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, module supply deals, MCA Group, Sun Africa
What is Azimuth angle?
Angle between direction to the sun and direction to the south (for the northern hemisphere). For a PV installation, azimuth specifies how far the installation
Sep 11, 2023
What is Concentrator?
A solar module consisting of lenses or other optical elements that focus sunlight on a photovoltaic cell, thus increasing the amount of solar energy captured.
Sep 12, 2023
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
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