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An additional floating solar park goes online in the Netherlands
Dutch water supplier Evides Waterbedrijf has actually appointed a 1.6 MW drifting PV plant at one of its facilities near Rotterdam. It is now considering the building and construction of more floating solar plants on 3 other storage tanks, including a 350-hectare water surface area.
Jun 10, 2020 // Plants, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Netherlands, Evides Waterbedrijf
The Arizona Battery Explosion Is Changing Conventional Wisdom on Safety
Six months later, GTM gets an exclusive update from APS and Fluence on an event that’s forcing a new look at grid battery engineering.
Oct 10, 2019 // Storage, USA, storage, Arizona, North America, John Zahurancik, Scott Bordenkircher
First Togolese utility-scale PV plants are on the way
The tender launched according to Scaling Solar program is for deployment of solar farms with a total capacity of 60-80 megawatts.
Jan 14, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Africa, Togo
Photon recycling: The secret to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Scientists from TU Dresden, in cooperation with researchers at Seoul National University (SNU) and Korea University (KU), demonstrated the role of the re-use of photons (called 'photon recycling') and also light scattering effects in perovskite solar cells, supplying a pathway towards high-efficiency solar energy conversion. The study has been published in Science Developments.
Jan 17, 2022 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, efficiency, Seoul National University, Korea University, Dresden University of Technology, SNU, KU, Karl Leo
The biggest solar rooftop in Cyprus under net billing scheme
The 2.5-megawatt PV facility will be operating under a program meant to protect grid operators against going bust
Dec 6, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, Europe, Cyprus, Muskita Aluminium
Making green hydrogen via the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) has actually joined forces with French researchers from the Institute of Chemistry and also Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES), a CNRS-University of Strasbourg joint research laboratory, to pave the way towards the production of green hydrogen.
Jan 22, 2021 // Technology, France, Europe, solar cell, green hydrogen, efficiency, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS, Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health, ICPEES, El Khakani, CNRS-University of Strasbourg
Just how Covid-19 is impacting the Brazilian PV market
Brazilian working as a consultant Greener has actually performed a study of greater than 500 solar business in Brazil to examine the financial influence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The outcomes reveal that need has actually currently begun to reduce, which PV system costs get on the increase.
Mar 27, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Brazil, Greener, covid-19
French scientists try to uncover the secrets of black perovskite
X-ray analysis is said to have solved the mystery of how to preserve optical absorption in perovskite layers. Researchers say the discovery could help stabilize the material and speed up the launch of a new ingredient for PV research.
Aug 23, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, Belgium, Julian Steele, KU Leuven University
Machine-learning to forecast the efficiency of natural solar cells
Picture looking for the optimal setup to construct a natural solar cell made from various polymers. Exactly how would certainly you start? Does the energetic layer demand to be extremely thick, or very slim? Does it require a large or a small amount of each polymer? Understanding exactly how to predict the particular structure and also cell design that would cause optimal efficiency is one of the best unresolved problems in products scientific research.
Jan 29, 2021 // Technology, Spain, solar cells, Europe, organic solar cells, ICMAB, Martin Heeney, Xabier Rodriguez- Martinez, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, URV
United States boom in the darkness of a black swan
Supply-chain restrictions connected to China's coronavirus episode might weigh on the efficiency of the U.S. solar market in 2020, composes SPV Market Research's Paula Mints.
Mar 17, 2020 // Opinions, USA, North America, Coronavirus
Energy Storage Market Breaks Quarterly Implementation Record in the US
2,156 MWh of brand-new energy storage systems were brought online in the United States in Q4 2020, making it the new record quarter for US storage.
Mar 5, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Jason Burwen, woodmac, North America, Dan Finn-Foley
The substantial search for cation replacement in lithium-ion batteries
Powering whatever from smart devices to electrical autos, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have actually evolved considerably with advances in technology and transformed our globe.
Jul 20, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Japan, Lithium-ion batteries, Asia, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ryo Maezono
Ions in molten salts can 'break the flow'
In a brand-new write-up published in the scientific journal Communications Chemistry, a research group at Uppsala University program, utilizing computer system simulations, that ions do not constantly behave as anticipated. In their study on molten salts, they had the ability to see that, sometimes, the ions in the salt combination they were researching influence each other so much that they might even relocate the "incorrect" instructions-- that is, in the direction of an electrode with the exact same charge.
Jan 28, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Europe, Uppsala University, David van der Spoel, Marie-Madeleine Walz
Strong winds flip cars competing in the World Solar Challenge
A solar car competing in the World Solar Challenge has rolled over on the Stuart Highway, just north of Coober Pedy in South Australia.
Oct 16, 2019 // Transport, Australia, World Solar Challenge, Oceania, Chris Selwood
Modelling a 55% solar power system for the United States
The scientists from National Renewable Energy Lab have created a model of the potential energy system of the U.S. comprising 55 per cent of solar energy. The research has shown there would be some days in spring when too much electricity would be generated, which proves the importance of energy storage.
Nov 25, 2019 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, National Renewable Energy Lab