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'Landmark' council had storage website in Somerset energised
The biggest council-owned power storage site in the UK has been energised as well as is now functional.
Jun 5, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, Sarah Dyke, Somerset, David Owen
WFW aids Vietnam floating solar project funding
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) advised loan provider Asian Development Bank (ADB), in funding the US$ 37 million setup of floating solar photovoltaic power generation panels.
Apr 30, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, Hong Kong, floating PV, Asia, Vietnam, Watson Farley & Williams
EDF proceeds solar push with 49.9 MW website prepared
EDF Renewables is seeking to develop a 49.9 MW solar farm at Tye Lane near Bramford.
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, EDF, Mark Vyvyan-Robinson
Chinese investor buys 14% stake in Comtec Solar
Sun Da has moved to become the lithium energy storage and electric vehicle battery company’s second largest investor, raising HK$10.3 million for the business in the process.
Jan 3, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, China, Asia, Comtec Solar, Sun Da
GlaxoSmithKline targets 20MW solar project to decarbonise Scottish manufacturing website
Pharma huge GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is targeting a 20MW solar project to assist power its production center in Irvine, Scotland.
Sep 23, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, GSK, decarbonise, Solar Project, Pharma huge GlaxoSmithKline
ADB finances Vietnam’s first large-scale floating solar plant
Vietnamese firm Da Nhim–Ham Thuan–Da Mi (DHD), a subsidiary of national utility EVN, has bagged a US$37 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a 47.5MW floating solar project that is claimed to be the first and largest such project in the Southeast Asian nation.
Oct 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Floating PV, ADB, Asia, solar-plus-storage, Singapore, Vietnam, floating, fpv, evn, dhd, sorsea, Christopher Thieme, Ramesh Subramaniam
Solar perovskite manufacturing on a roll
High-performance perovskite solar cells are used a manufacturing-friendly liquid-based process suitable for roll to roll production.
Nov 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Asia, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Anand Subbiah
Swansea group on a roll with published perovskite solar cells
Scientists have reported the highest possible efficiency tape-recorded for full roll-to-roll published perovskite solar cells, an advancement noting an essential step towards cheaper and a lot more reliable methods of generating solar energy.
Jul 10, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, efficiency, Trystan Watson, Swansea University, Rahul Patidar
Enel X to Power Rome Airport w/22 MW Solar Plant
Enel X and ADR to deliver a 22MW solar plant to Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome, by 2024, accompanied by a 10MWh storage system and covering an area of 340,000 square metres. A key part of ADR’s goal for zero CO2 emissions by 2030. A significant step to mitigate climate change and relaunch the Italian airport sector.
Jun 23, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV Power Plant, Enel X, Rome
Tongwei and Trina Solar mark first ramp at 15GW cell, wafer facility
The very first production line at a 15GW solar wafer and also cell production center in Chengdu co-owned by Trina Solar as well as Tongwei has actually started to ramp.
Nov 4, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Tongwei, solar cells, polysilicon, Trina Solar, upstream, vertex, supply chain, solar wafers, large-format modules
Mini perovskite solar module with 40 sq cm aperture area, 17% efficiency
The 19.2%- efficient perovskite cells made use of in the module depend on an electron layer based on tin oxide that was transferred through chemical bath deposition. This technique, according to the gadget's creators, has made it possible to have a reasonably small decrease in efficiency from small cells to the 40cm2 module.
Feb 28, 2022 // Technology, France, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, solar module, efficiency, Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France, IPVF
Brazil's Claro inaugurates 6.3-MW solar plant
Brazilian telecom Claro SA has actually linked to the grid a 6.3-MW distributed generation (DG) solar plant in the south of the country.
Dec 19, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, PV Power Plant, Claro
Sonnedix plugs in 9.8-MW PV collection at France's former nuclear launch website
Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd announced on Tuesday that its 9.8-MW Simiane collection of three solar farms in southeast France began operations.
Aug 4, 2021 // Plants, France, Sonnedix, Europe, PV Power Plant
Flexible perovskite programmer TubeSolar achieves 14% performance on solar films
German photovoltaic (PV) thin-film tubes programmer TubeSolar AG (ETR:9 TS) has actually achieved a performance record of 14% on solar films in the industrially ideal "roll-to-roll" process as part of its perovskite research activities.
Jul 18, 2022 // Manufacturing News, perovskite, efficiency, TubeSolar, solar films
Bouygues Energies & Services starts building and construction on UK's biggest subsidy-free website
Bouygues Energies & Services will certainly construct the biggest subsidy-free solar farm in the UK for NextEnergy.
Jul 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, Ross Grier, Bouygues Energies & Services, NextEnergy, Keith Pedder