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Singyes state bail-out vote at end of the month
Shareholders in the heavily-indebted solar project EPC and building-integrated PV manufacturer will vote on the last day of the month on the proposed takeover of the business by a Chinese state-backed entity. No news has emerged of a winding-up order due to be heard yesterday.
Oct 17, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Hong Kong, Asia, Singyes
Researchers 'shift the sun' to boost solar cells
Solar cells are a key function of developing a sustainable energy ecological community for the future. Existing solar arrays as well as cells can create tidy power from one of the most mother lode in nature.
Jul 18, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, Tandon School of Engineering
Solar farm will stretch along the 25-mi Dutch highway
Netherlands’ Rijkswaterstaat is planning to deploy PV module installation along the Drenthe’s motorway. The panels will be installed on the 300ha area on the median and sides of the road. The project is being developed under the country’s target to find new spaces for clean energy solutions.
Jan 14, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Netherlands
Solar Farm in Space? European Space Agency Contemplates the Idea
Scientists are propogating an enthusiastic plan to harness solar power from orbit to power the planet. At a two-day conference in Paris, the European Space Agency (ESA), which the UK is a part of, is disputing ideas for developing a solar farm in space.
To transfer microwave energy to Earth, analogous to the high-frequency radio waves located in a microwave oven, the SOLARIS project gathers sunshine over a huge location in space.
Nov 24, 2022 // Technology, Paris, ESA, SBSP, microwaves can pass through clouds, orbit to power the planet, space-based solar power, the European Space Agency
The Green Hydrogen Wave, And Its Implications for Renewable Energy
A report today from Wood Mackenzie claims eco-friendly hydrogen prices will fall by approximately 64% by 2040. Those numbers are broadly in accordance with what lots of various other experts have been predicting, though numerous have predicted competition as very early as 2030.
Aug 27, 2020 // Market Research, Solar to Fuel, Wood Mackenzie, hydrogen, woodmac, Ben Gallagher, Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Limited
Canadian researchers have done the math on optimizing PV output
Mathematicians at Canada’s University of Waterloo who turned their attention to solar power have developed an algorithm they say offers better control over PV plant output. The researchers estimate the algorithm could improve the output of a 100 MW power plant by almost a million kilowatt-hours per year.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Canada, North America, University of Waterloo’s Department of Applied Mathematics, Milad Farsi
Sunfolding seeks to disrupt the tracker sector with air pneumatics
With $32 million in collection B financing as well as an ever-growing project pipe, air-based tracker start-up, Sunfolding, is hoping to raise its keep in the tracker market with tech that's straightforward, light as well as can be set up on terrain previously believed untouchable.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, USA, North America, startup, Sunfolding, Gwen Rose
Meyer Burger literally betting the house on HJT cell strategy
The Swiss equipment maker has announced a fresh, CHF18 million order from Oxford PV but the news may have been strategically timed ahead of today’s update that it has completed the sale of its headquarters building.
Oct 23, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Germany, UK, China, Europe, Asia, oxford pv, meyer burger
First Solar sold out through the second quarter of 2021
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, First Solar said it was sold out of thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar modules through the second half of 2021 as the company continues to ramp its Series 6 larger-area modules.
Oct 25, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, pv power plants, Mark Widmar, North America, first solar inc, cdte thin-film modules
Another 5 GW of module capacity for the Longi juggernaut
The mono giant has announced the latest aspect of a strategy to massively increase production capacity which is currently set to cost around $3.32 billion. Longi last week issued $710 million of new convertible bonds for investors.
Nov 1, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, longi solar
China vs United States: The New Battle for Energy Superiority
At his initial press conference since taking office, United States President Joe Biden had actually claimed in March that he would certainly outspend China on technology and also facilities to make sure that the latter's desire for superseding the United States to become the most powerful as well as wealthiest country would certainly not pertain to fulfillment, a minimum of not on "his watch."
Apr 13, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, China, Asia, PV module, North America, Joe Biden
Is solar eroding too much land? The EU thinks not
The EU’s Joint Research Center has created a comprehensive dataset to characterize the solar energy potential in the bloc’s 28 member states. The data shows even a 100-fold increase from current solar capacity would require a very limited amount of land – a lot less than wind power.
Oct 10, 2019 // Technology, Europe, Joint Research Center
Stock markets pumped $1.3bn into solar in the last quarter
Fundraising activity for solar leaped in the July-to-September period to provide healthy quarterly and year-so-far comparisons on 2018.
Oct 8, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Mercom Capital Group, bboxx, Raj Prabhu, ReNew Power
Risen concludes plans to build the first 500MW efficiency module
At Risen's annual suppliers meeting 3 new modules were released and the template for the first 500MW module was also discussed
Dec 18, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Risen, Yafeng Liu
Tandem solar cells border in the direction of 30% effectiveness
Late in 2020, scientists in Germany and also Lithuania announced a new landmark in so-called "tandem" solar cells-- that is, cells made from two different sorts of photovoltaic material. Writing in Scientific Research, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/Kaunas University team reported that its perovskite/silicon tandem cell had a photovoltaic or pv conversion effectiveness (PCE) of 29.15%, vanquishing the previous optimum of 26.2% for a tandem cell.
Sep 9, 2021 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, Lithuania, efficiency