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USA's Avangrid Developing Over 500 MW Solar Farms in Texas & Ohio
Both solar energy projects will cumulatively create 523.5 MW of clean and affordable power for the two US states. Real North solar farm of 321 MW is being established in Falls County, Texas.
Mar 16, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, avangrid, Renewable Energy, Iberdrola Group, Pedro Azagra, Powell Creek, solar farms USA, Texas and Ohio, Texas solar industry, True North solar project
Enel works on addition to Latin America’s self-styled largest PV project
Enel has hit yet another deployment milestone with what it bills as Latin America’s biggest solar plant under construction, a project it is building in Brazil’s northeast.
Aug 22, 2019 // Plants, Enel, bifacial, Latin america, São Gonçalo, Soltec
Financiers get behind 296MWdc merchant bifacial project in Mexico
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has lined up finance for a major bifacial solar project it will develop in Mexico’s centre without the help of subsidies.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, bifacial, Latin america, ifc, Mexico, North America, frv, fotowatio
Solar Manufactured Homes Concept Wins National Award For Portland Firm
An idea to build solar panels into manufactured homes has given a Portland-based company a big win in a year-long national competition.
Sep 30, 2019 // BIPV, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, California, USA, North America, Portland, Phase3 Photovoltaics, Ethan Good, Becca Jones-Albertus
First Solar backs carbon pricing for wholesale electrical power
First Solar has actually backed carbon rates in comments submitted to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The firm likewise co-founded a global plan institute to sustain carbon prices as a "economical, fair as well as politically viable environment solution."
Jun 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, First Solar, North America
Ikea spends extra in solar every day
The Swedish furnishings titan has stated it will turn among its Australian warehouse stores right into its first 100% renewables-powered solar+ storage space retail project. Australia is likewise residence to the firm's very first development of its retail solar offering, Solstråle.
Jul 2, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, ikea
New PV cell architecture creates resistively bounded subcells
Solar Inventions, the winners of the initial American-Made Solar Prize, strategy to commercialize their newest product, which is declared to decrease silver web content and rise module power, while potentially saving makers approximately $1 million each year.
Aug 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Benjamin Damiani
Surrey is leading the way in perovskite tandem solar cells
Scientists from the University of Surrey have actually exposed the considerable renovations they are making in perovskite-based solar cells. Perovskite solar cells have revealed significant capacity within the effectiveness restriction of the extensively used solar cells currently on the market by soaking up light in a more comprehensive range of wavelengths.
Oct 19, 2020 // Technology, UK, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, University of Surrey, Ravi Silva, ATI, Wei Zhang, Hui Li
Solar Rooftop Leader Esdec Continues On Acquisition Trail In US, Acquires PanelClaw
Esdec, the global rooftop solar placing services company, announced the other day that it has acquired PanelClaw, the biggest vendor of solar installing systems for business roofs in the U.S. With the procurement of PanelClaw, Esdec increases its customer base as well as profile of products available to the growing industrial and commercial (C&I) solar market.
Nov 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, esdec, costa nicolau, PanelClaw, solar acquisitions, stijn vos
Exus Expands US Solar Portfolio with 625MW Acquisition
Exus North America secures 625MW solar farm portfolio in New Mexico, bolstering the state's clean energy goals. Partners Group invests $1 billion, fueling Exus' expansion in North America.
Jan 22, 2024 // Plants, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Exus
Biden suggests 10-year ITC expansion in US$ 2tn infrastructure investment strategy
United States President Joe Biden has actually included a 10-year expansion for the Investment Tax Credit for both clean power generation and also energy storage as part of a US$ 2 trillion framework investment strategy to be revealed today.
Apr 1, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, ITC, North America, investment tax credit, congress, biden, biden administration
Game changer: Violet Power to supply 50-year solar panel guarantee with US-made IBC innovation
Coming out of stealth-mode, US-based integrated PV panel production startup, Violet Power intends to interfere with the PV industry with internal manufacturing of high-efficiency IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) solar cells. The company will certainly use cell-to-module 'flex circuit' as well as thermal plastic encapsulant innovation in a glass/glass setup that will have a solar panel guarantee of 50 years, greater than three times the standard in the market, today.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, USA, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, monocrystalline wafer, North America, REC Silicon, sunpower corporation, violet power, interdigitated back contact, wafering, isc konstanz
Four out of five fossil fuel giants dismiss findings of report into EU lobbying efforts
U.S. oil major Chevron did not respond to pv magazine’s questions. Exxon Mobil and BP did not produce figures for their clean energy investment activity and Total responded only with its ‘low carbon electricity’ spending. Shell stated it had invested €1.6 billion in clean energy from late 2016 up to June.
Oct 28, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Europe, North America, shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and BP
Immediate battery electrodes-- simply 2 mins in the microwave
Researchers in the United States have actually made use of microwaves to transform common plastic product packaging product polyethylene terephthalate right into a battery electrode part. The scientists claim anodes based upon the product could be ideal for both lithium-ion as well as sodium-ion gadgets.
Apr 22, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, lithium-ion, North America, sodium-ion
Brazil strikes 5 GW turning point
In Brazil, like in numerous various other parts of the globe, sector organizations assert that solar will certainly be a tactical aspect in the healing from the Covid-19 dilemma, as a result of its prospective to produce tasks, create earnings, and also bring in brand-new financial investment.
Apr 29, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, South america, Brazil, Absolar, Rodrigo Sauaia, covid-19, Ronaldo Koloszuk