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Qcells to spend USD 100m as part of race for perovskite tandem cells
Solar products maker Qcells, a subsidiary of Seoul-based Hanwha Solutions Corp with German roots, today revealed a USD-100-million (EUR 91.9 m) financial investment in a pilot line targeted at speeding up the commercialisation of perovskite-based tandem cells.
May 18, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, solar cells, perovskite, Qcells
UNITED STATE Battery updates AGM deep-cycle line of batteries
U.S. Battery Production has actually launched its new and enhanced line of AGM Deep-Cycle batteries especially created to give raised deep-cycling efficiency.
Mar 16, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, AGM Deep-Cycle batteries, Zachary Cox, Don Wallace
Dept. of Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign at end of year
Secretary Perry informed President Trump yesterday that he will resign from his position, effective later this year. Perry released a message to DOE employees stating that he had “the coolest job in the world” as Secretary of the department.
Oct 20, 2019 // Policy, USA, Trump, North America, Rick Perry, Dan Brouillette
Software application to improve commercial, distributed solar and storage space deployment introduced in the United States
New software program services focused on streamlining the procedure of deploying commercial and also industrial (C&I) power storage space and also for correctly sizing energy storage for distributed solar have actually been launched in the US.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Commercial, Residential, Software, USA, North America, Aurora Solar, Jim Hughes, Steve Luker, Christopher Hopper
Wind & Solar = 14% Of US Electrical Energy Generation In October
In October 2019, wind power and solar power represented 11.3% of US electrical power generation. In October 2020, they accounted for 12.4% of US electricity
Dec 27, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, wind
Behind the surge of US utility-driven solar
As the US turns in the direction of a presidential political election that will quite choose the nation's path for the next four years, federal plan in the direction of renewables as well as, certainly, climate action generally, hangs in the balance.
Oct 5, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Trump, North America, biden, utility solar, Devashree Saha
COVID-19: Currency after effects to 'eliminate' worldwide energy of PV, wind in 2020
Needing to fund orders with a value-soaring United States buck is readied to harm the returns of solar and also wind projects this year as well as cut international development back to 2019 degrees, specialists have actually advised.
Mar 30, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Coronavirus, covid-19, rystad energy, Mexico, Brazil
Sunrun faucets technology market director to guide funds in year of headwinds
An exec with previous duties in leading Silicon Valley companies will certainly be managing financial resources at Sunrun, the biggest United States PV household driver facing the financial effects from the COVID-19 break out.
Apr 27, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, California, USA, Sunrun, Solar, solar pv, residential solar, North America, pv residential installer, Coronavirus, covid-19, Tom vonReichbauer, Bob Komin
American Electric Power Sells More Than 1 GW of Renewable Portfolio to IRG Aquisition
American Electric Power (AEP) has entered into an agreement to sell its 1,365-megawatt (MW) unregulated, contracted renewables portfolio to IRG Acquisition Holdings at an enterprise value of $1.5 billion. The sale portfolio includes 14 projects, representing 1,200 MW of wind and 165 MW of solar in 11 states.
Feb 23, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, AEP, Invenergy, Wind Energy, CDPQ, american electric power, federal energy regulatory commission, renewable power, IRG Acquisition Holdings, Julie Sloat, renewable generation portfolio
Sonnedix purchases 26 MW of operating solar in Spain
Global independent power manufacturer (IPP) Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd has settled the acquisition of a portfolio with 26 MW of functional solar PV farms in Spain, the company claimed on Monday.
Jan 16, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Sonnedix, Europe, solar farm
Researchers improve effectiveness of next-generation solar cell product
Perovskites are a prominent prospect for ultimately replacing silicon as the product of option for photovoltaic panels. They supply the possibility for low-cost, low-temperature manufacturing of ultrathin, light-weight adaptable cells, yet until now their efficiency at converting sunlight to electrical energy has actually dragged that of silicon and also a few other choices.
Feb 25, 2021 // Technology, USA, Georgia, South Korea, solar cells, Europe, Asia, MIT, North America, efficiency, perovskites, Jason Yoo, Lester Wolfe, Fariborz Maseeh
Azure Power plugs in 90 MW of solar in India
Indian solar programmer as well as power manufacturer Azure Power Global Ltd (NYSE: AZRE) introduced today that it has actually commissioned 90 MW of solar sites in India's state of Assam.
May 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Azure Power
Senator Joe Manchin states he will not support Build Back Better strategy, cites grid dependability 'risk'.
US Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat who is key to passing President Joe Biden's US$ 1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act (BBB), claimed yesterday (Sunday) he will not support the plan, which he claimed would "run the risk of the reliability" of the nation's electric grid.
Dec 21, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, Policy, USA, North America, grid stability, budget reconciliation, Build Back Better
Reliable, natural solar cells of the future
As part of his doctoral thesis, a young researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has actually devised a means to make natural solar cells extra effective.
Oct 20, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency, organic solar cells, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Christoph Brabec, Thomas Heumüller
United States developer gets 540MW solar portfolio
Acquisition of 3 sites from Arevon Energy belongs to Sol Systems plan to scale up in the nation
Feb 2, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, sol systems, Arevon Energy, Justin Johnson, Patty Rollin