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Enel Delivers First Power from 132.2-MW Colombian Solar Farm
Enel Colombia's 132.2 MW solar farm in Fundación, Colombia, is now delivering energy to the grid. With 244,800 solar panels spread across 237 hectares, this USD 109 million project was awarded a 2023-2037 power purchase agreement in Colombia's October 2021 renewable energy auction.
Aug 25, 2023 // Plants, Enel, South america, Colombia, PV Power Plant
First evidence reveals solar parks can cool down surrounding land
Scientists utilizing satellite innovations have actually found for the very first time that large scale solar parks have a cooling impact on the land bordering them.
Oct 26, 2021 // Technology, USA, China, Asia, North America, Solar Park, Lancaster University, Alona Armstrong, Ludong University, University of California Davis
The UAE reveals its very first floating solar energy plant
The island of Nurai in Abu Dhabi has actually lately set up a floating solar energy plant that is readied to have an ability of 80 kilowatts
Feb 14, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Asia, UAE, Stefan Mückstein
South Africa proposes voluntary reduction of tariffs awarded in first three REIPPPP rounds
Power purchase agreements may be voluntarily renegotiated by extending the 20-year deals or enabling independent power producers to add more efficient PV components, thus increasing plant generation capacity.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Africa, eskom, Gwede Mantashe, Pravin Gordhan, Chris Ahlfeldt
Ecuador unveils developer shortlist for first ever major solar venture
Ecuador has identified the handful of top global clean energy developers who will compete to deploy the country’s first ever large-scale solar project.
Nov 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ecuador, Total Eren, pv power plants, tender, solar pv, South america, Latin america, neoen, Solarpack
Tunisia's first floating PV project
The national energy has actually authorized an agreement with the Total-owned Qair business formerly called Quadran International for a 200 kW floating solar power plant and a research study of Tunisian potential for the innovation.
Jul 13, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Tunisia, Africa
First Solar Powered Miniature Train in India Launched in Kerala
A solar energy powered mini train billed as the very first of its kind in India was inaugurated at the Veli Tourist Village in Kerala by CM Pinarayi Vijayan
Nov 3, 2020 // Transport, India, Asia, Kadakampalluy Surendran, Pinarayi Vijayan
The First Phase of the Transition is About Electricity, Not Primary Energy
from French developer Akuo Energy which won 150MW in Portugal’s First Solar auction in August.
Already this year we have seen 63GW of new renewable
Jan 31, 2020 // Opinions, Market Research, First Solar, Seb Henbest
e6-- India's First EV Model to Adopt BYD Blade battery Technology
Blade Battery exhibits both fast and slow charging functions
The technology effectively passes the nail penetration test
Maximized battery pack structure: space utilization increased by over 50 percent
Feb 23, 2022 // Storage, India, Asia, BYD, Blade Battery, eMPV e6, nail penetration test, Sanjay Gopalakrishnan
Japan's first vertical agrivoltaic project
The facility was built with heterojunction modules and placing systems supplied by German firms Luxor Solar and Next2Sun, specifically. The range in between the panel rows ranges from 8 to 10 meters and also the farming surface within the rows will be made use of by neighborhood livestock farmers as pasture.
May 2, 2022 // Plants, Japan, Germany, Europe, Asia, Luxor Solar
'Workhorse' of photovoltaics integrated with perovskite in tandem for the very first time
Tandem cells made from silicon and perovskite are able to convert the wide power range of sunlight into electrical energy extra successfully than the respective single cells.
Feb 28, 2022 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, HZB, ISFH Hameln, Lars Korte
Newest Data Book Shows U.S. Renewable Capacity Surpassed 20% for First Time in 2018
Growth Continues in U.S. Installed Wind and Solar Photovoltaic Capacity, Energy Storage, and Electric Vehicle Sales
Mar 6, 2020 // Market Research, USA, NREL, North America, Sam Koebrich
Husk Power is First to Cross 200 Minigrids Milestone Across Asia as well as Africa
Industry pioneer currently balancing 16 new minigrids monthly.
It currently leads worldwide in regards to variety of tiny grids released.
Feb 27, 2023 // Grids, Asia, Africa, Husk Power, Manoj Sinha, mini grids, largest mini grids firm
Reverse-bias IEC examination passed for the first time in published perovskite cells and also modules
One of the key obstacles of perovskite photovoltaics (PV) is the long-lasting security. Although efforts have actually been made to enhance the life time of perovskite PV gadgets, their deterioration under applied adverse voltage (reverse-bias) has been barely resolved.
Oct 28, 2021 // Technology, NREL, solar cells, perovskite, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Solaronix SA, Materials Research Center of the University of Freiburg
Canada's Zinc8 Produces its First Zinc-Air Batteries for United States Market
Zinc8 Energy Solutions, its proprietary flow battery innovation can supply power in the 20 kW to 50 MW range with energy storage space and also discharge times of 4 to 100 hours.
An increase in the size of zinc particle storage tanks allows for more scalability and also capacity.
Sep 7, 2022 // Storage, lithium, International, green energy, glass, Cobalt, lohum, Nickel, rubber, Zinc Air Batteries
