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'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
Shelburne Museum to be powered by solar power by the end of 2021
Shelburne Museum join Encore Renewable Energy and also Bee The Change to establish 2 pollinator-friendly solar projects
Jul 15, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Encore Renewable Energy, Chad Farrell, Shelburne Museum, Thomas Denenberg, Michael Kiernan, Bee The Change
Jena research study group provides unique approach to the storage of solar energy
Utilizing the power from the sunlight as successfully as nature does and also transforming it right into chemical energy might drastically lower worldwide CO2 emissions. A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and also the Friedrich Schiller University Jena has actually now come one action more detailed to this vision.
Sep 28, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Leibniz IPHT, Martin Schulz
PV alleviation for sub-Saharan Africa in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic
Solar assistance gets on the method for neighborhoods and also services battling to deal as the coronavirus break out surges throughout the continent.
Apr 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Africa, covid-19, Rural Electrification Agency, Leoncio Amada Nze, Equatorial Guinea
Risen profits for HJT manufacturer
Ukraine’s favorite solar module manufacturer has posted another encouraging set of returns, after a difficult year in 2018. And Risen – which boasted 6.6 GW of annual production capacity at the end of last year, according to analysts at PV InfoLink – is committed to adding another 2.5 GW before 2022.
Oct 30, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Ukraine, Europe, Asia, Risen
In search of the 'most rational design' for anti-reflective finish
Researchers in Spain have examined different buildings of anti-reflective and anti-soiling finishes for PV module glass, aiming to create a product that uses the most effective equilibrium of desired product homes at the lowest cost. Over a year of testing, the most effective finishes were revealed to increase module result by around 2%, and also the group likewise made a number of monitorings that can influence future developments of coverings for PV module front glass.
Aug 27, 2020 // Technology, Spain, Europe, soiling
Renewable energy resources: Heading in the direction of large-scale thermal storage systems
High-temperature technologies make it possible for electrothermal storage space systems for large amounts of energy from renewable sources.
May 4, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Thermal, Germany, Europe, KIT, Thomas Wetzel, Klarissa Niedermeier, Alfons Weisenburger, Walter Tromm