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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates
Far from bringing the grid down, clean energy could help save it.
Jan 21, 2020 // Market Research, UK, Australia, Europe, Oceania, Distributed ReStart
Exploring the Factors Behind the Residential Battery Surge
On this week’s Interchange podcast: how residential batteries differ from other forms of distributed energy.
Oct 10, 2019 // Storage, California, USA, storage, Hawaii, North America, Shayle Kann, Julian Spector
Algerian 150 MW solar tender secures final price of $0.069/kWh – and only a third of the capacity
The Algerian Electricity and Gas Regulation Commission has concluded a tender launched in June. The one solar project selected will sell power at DZD8.28/kWh. The authority reportedly only published ceiling prices for energy bids on the day the exercise was completed.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, tender, Africa, Algeria, Malek Drif, CREG, Al-Muchkat’s Drif
EPFL-led group makes use of additives to improve the stability and also efficiency of perovskite solar cells
A team of scientists, led by Professor Michael Grätzel at EPFL and also Xiong Li at the Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells in Wuhan (China), have actually developed a technique that deals with stability issues of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as well as raises their effectiveness.
Jan 23, 2023 // Technology, China, Asia, EPFL, perovskite solar cells, Michael Grätzel, Xiong Li, Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells
India includes 11.1 GW of solar PV, a boost of 249% on the exact same period last year
India added around 11.1 GW of solar capacity from January to November, which is a 249% get on installments for the exact same duration last year, bringing its mounted renewables capacity to roughly 104GW, according to research by JMK Research.
Dec 14, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, India, Asia, JMK Research
EPFL group makes use of unique modulators to improve the effectiveness and also stability of perovskite solar cells
A team of scientists at EPFL have actually developed a method that improves both power conversion performance as well as stability of solar cells based upon pure iodide as well as mixed-halide perovskites.
Jan 3, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, EPFL, Michael Grätzel, Ursula Rothlisberger
'Fuel drops from the skies': The solar transformation boiling down the roadway
Long the pursuit and dream of technology geeks and futurists, self-charging electric vehicles available for a mass market may not be too many years down the track.
Feb 10, 2020 // Transport, Toyota, Australia, Oceania, Fuel, Ned Ekins-Daukes, Ekins-Daukes
Encavis boosts profits by 5 percent in the initial nine months of 2020
In the very first 9 months of 2020, German solar as well as wind power plant operator Encavis AG accomplished a year-on-year boost in sales of around five percent to EUR234.3 million ($277 million).
Nov 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, encavis ag
Ethiopia aims to set up formula for the calculation of mini-grid tariffs
Ethiopia is currently trying to set up a methodology for the calculation of electricity tariffs for mini-grid systems. Should the government’s work come to fruition, it can provide much-needed certainty to mini-grid investors.
Aug 12, 2019 // Grids, Tariffs, mini-grid systems, Ethiopia, Africa, Hizkyas Dufera, Scaling Solar
A make over at the issue of energy effectiveness in lithium-ion batteries
A worldwide research team including two Skoltech researchers has actually experimentally demonstrated that a long-lasting description for reduced energy effectiveness in lithium-ion batteries does not hold.
Sep 21, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, Skoltech, efficiency, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Singareni Collieries to Start the Third Phase of its 300 MW Solar Project
The Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has authorized the development of the last leg of its 300 MW solar project in Telangana.
Oct 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Solar Project, Singareni Collieries
Statkraft partners with Italian university to check out the potential of agri-PV
Statkraft Italy has authorized a four-year research study arrangement with the Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences (DiSAAT) at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy to explore the potential of agri-photovoltaics (agri-PV) in Europe.
Apr 11, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Europe, agrivoltaics, Statkraft, agrisolar, agriPV, agri-pv
Scientists create an additive to successfully improve the stability of perovskite solar cells
Perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) are a promising choice to standard silicon-based solar cells because of their high power-conversion performance and low cost. Nevertheless, one of the significant challenges in their growth has actually been achieving long-lasting stability.
May 5, 2023 // Technology, Alex Jen Kwan-yue, City University of Hong Kong, perovskite solar cell, Lee Shau Kee Chair
Endesa is completing deployment of solar projects gained at the auction in 2017
Endesa, a subsidiary of the biggest electric utility in Spain, has finished 252 megawatts of PV projects in Extremadura, which means all of the 339 megawatts the company gained at the governmental auction 2017 are now tied to electrical grid.
Nov 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Spain, Europe, auction, Endesa
$4 Billion US Oil Firm Banks On Perovskite Solar Cell Of The Future
If the name Search Oil rings a bell, it should. As an affiliate of US-based Search Consolidated, it belongs to a $4 billion oil and also gas empire and among the biggest independently held firms in the US. If any individual would want removing the renewable resource revolution at the knees, that would be Quest Consolidated. However, Hunt has started a years-long perovskite solar cell endeavor, and it resembles all that effort will pay off.
Feb 8, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, solar cell, perovskite, North America, Michael Irwin