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Alabama Power, Mercedes Benz get green light on 80-MW solar project
Alabama Power and Mercedes Benz U.S. International (MBUSI) obtained authorization today from the Alabama Public Service Commission for the recommended 80-MW Letohatchee Solar Project in Lowndes County, south of Montgomery.
Dec 8, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Solar Project, Alabama Power, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, MBUSI, Mark Crosswhite
ACWA Power gets green light for 217-MW solar project in UAE
Saudi Arabia's International Company for Water and also Power Projects (TADAWUL:2082), or ACWA Power, can begin work on the first 217-MW phase of the Noor Energy 1 solar project in Dubai after obtaining a certificate of industrial operation.
Jan 11, 2022 // Plants, Asia, ACWA Power, UAE, Solar Project
ACE Power Gains Green Light for 200-MW Wheatbelt Solar-Battery Project
ACE Power secures approval for a 200-MW solar farm and four-hour battery near Narrogin, unlocking A$400 million investment and 230 construction jobs in Western Australia.
Jun 25, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, Wheatbelt
Searching concealed electrical power in crystalline solar batteries with brand-new encapsulation strategy
Korean scientists assert it is feasible to draw out greater than 10% of 'surprise electrical power' in crystalline solar batteries making use of a brand-new encapsulation procedure based upon poly‐dimethylsiloxane finishes as well as a three-dimensional module framework. Contrasted to EVA movies, the brand-new finishing is stated to prevent removing short-wavelength light
Feb 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cells, Asia, Korea, poly‐dimethylsiloxane
Planned solar farm in Columbia County drops battery strategy
Hecate's proposed Sheperd's Run plant has obtained smaller sized
Feb 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, hecate energy, solar farm, Columbia, Alex Campbell, Darin Johnson
SunPower bringing domestic solar solutions to 7 more United States markets
As need for solar boosts across the nation, SunPower, a solar innovation and also power companies, is preparing to broaden its SunPower Residential Installation (SPRI) program this year. SunPower prepares to introduce SPRI presence in 7 brand-new markets throughout 6 states by the end of Q2 2021.
Jan 27, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, Tony Garzolini
Northvolt acquires United States battery technology business
Move to acquire Cuberg will certainly be complied with by brand-new Silicon Valley centre
Mar 10, 2021 // Technology, Storage, USA, NORTHVOLT, Sweden, Europe, North America, Peter Carlsson, Cuberg
Next-generation light-weight, flexible and long-lasting batts
A group of Korean researchers, headed by Prof Soojin Park, has created foldable batts with thin 3D organic electrodes.
Dec 13, 2019 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Korea, flexible, Soojin Park
Re-awakening the globe's very first solar cells for indoor photovoltaics applications
The globe's initial solid-state photovoltaics were reported in 1883, and were made up of selenium, which at some point led to the growth of the present-day photovoltaics, although the wide bandgap of selenium was limiting for applications of sunlight harvesting.
Dec 29, 2022 // Technology, China, Asia, solar cell, Bin Yan
US' BLM soliciting for utility-scale solar projects on 90,000 acres of state land
The United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is soliciting rate of interest for utility-scale solar projects on almost 90,000 acres of public land situated throughout Colorado, Nevada and also New Mexico, making up the firm's largest solar rate of interest given that 2012.
Dec 22, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, Colorado, Nevada, North America, New Mexico, doi, bureau of land managament
Clearway Energy Buys 109-MW Kern County Solar Park Expansion Portfolio
Clearway Energy acquired a 109-MW solar park in Kern County, California, extending its Golden State portfolio and optionality for future storage pairing.
Sep 26, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Clearway Energy
A technique to attain amorphous silicon solar cells with over 25% efficiency
Recently, designers worldwide have actually been creating various new technologies to generate and store energy more sustainably. These technologies consist of solar or photovoltaic cells, electrical tools that can convert the light from the sun right into electrical energy.
Jun 8, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, efficiency, KAUST, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Wenzhu Liu, amorphous silicon solar cells
New research study provides anemic as well as elastic solar cells, utilizing Si microwire compounds
As solar cells end up being a lot more clear, you might currently include clear panels of solar cells on home windows of structures and also digital tools to produce electrical energy. Moreover, in including versatility to this, its item variety will certainly be also increased to guarantee the future mobile applications for wearable tools.
Mar 10, 2020 // Technology, South Korea, solar cells, Asia, UNIST, Kyoung Jin Choi, Sung Bum Kang
Nanoparticle Paste To Optimize Perovskite Solar Cell Performance
A global group of scientists from ITMO's School of Physics and also Engineering and also Tor Vergata University of Rome located a method to boost the efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells. The project was sustained by a Russian Science Foundation grant as well as its outcomes were defined in a paper published in Nano Energy.
Sep 27, 2021 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, ITMO's School of Physics and Engineering, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Sergey Makarov
Tesla’s unionising pushback violated federal labour law, court finds
A federal administrative judge has ruled that Tesla violated US labour laws on 12 different occasions where it thwarted efforts by factory employees to form a union.
Oct 1, 2019 // Manufacturing News, California, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, SolarCity, Walmart, North America, lawsuits