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Hybrid Power: The PV Revolution of Solar Thermal Plants
Explore Hybridkraft: a project funded by the German government to combine solar thermal & photovoltaics. Harness 1 megawatt solar-powered heater to increase efficiency & reduce energy costs for industrial applications.
Jul 31, 2023 // Technology, Plants, Germany, Europe, Fraunhofer Institute, solar thermal plant
The Renewable Resource Shift is Lastly Involving Asia: IEEFA
Regardless of the present financial closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the international renewable resource change is well in progress and also it is pertaining to Asia
May 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, energy transition, IEEFA, Renewable Energy
The world’s first solar road is an absolute disaster
In 2016 France turned a one-kilometer stretch of roadway into the world’s first solar road. And three years later, the trial project has turned out to be an absolute disaster, French newspaper Le Monde reports.
Aug 16, 2019 // Solar, USA, France, Netherlands, solar road, Amsterdam, Solar Roadways, LED lights
Chile's CEME1 Solar Farm: Powering the Future
Generadora Metropolitana's CEME1 solar farm in Chile is set to be the largest in the country, powering over half a million homes with clean energy by 2024.
Mar 18, 2024 // Plants, Chile, South america, PV Power Plant
Portuguese projects under the hammer, Dehui declares Vietnam initially
A round-up of the most up to date solar industry news from around the world, as Aquila grabs its very first solar projects in Portugal, among Europe's hottest solar markets, as well as Dehui claims being Vietnam's initial module producer to create next-generation panels.
Sep 11, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Portugal, Europe, Asia, Africa, LONGi, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, dehui, aquila
The unclear influence of battery storage space on discharges
UNITED STATE scientists have actually checked out whether power storage space implementation might in fact increase greenhouse gas discharges in the short-term in some power markets. The truth the existing literary works thinks about just the send off of power from storage space centers in the present fossil fuel-renewables power mix, however, can downplay the long-lasting discharges decrease advantages of such centers.
Mar 5, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America
Pressing the boundaries of PV cell level of sensitivity
Researchers in Australia and also the United States have taken care of to 'upconvert' light from below the silicon bandgap right into high-energy light that can be caught by silicon solar cells.
Jul 23, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Australia, Oceania, North America, Tim Schmidt, Jared Cole, Elham Gholizadeh
Net-metered rooftop PV on the rise in Malaysia
Sustainable Energy Development Authority figures show the country saw around 94 MW of new rooftop generation capacity added in the first 11 months of last year. That compares to less than 14 MW in the previous three years.
Jan 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Rooftop PV, Malaysia, Asia, rooftop PV, Seda
Empower Buckeyes the Sun: 7.6MW Solar Install in Ohio
Empower Energies Inc. has completed a 7.6MW solar installation across a commercial office park in Columbus, OH, expected to generate 9 million kWh in its first year. The customer is a Fortune 100 and Empower has installed 32.7MW of solar projects and over 1GW of solar/storage projects nationwide.
Jul 3, 2023 // Plants, USA, North America, Ohio, Empower Energies Inc
Shell to construct green hydrogen project in the Netherlands
Energy significant Shell will certainly start constructing a renewable hydrogen plant in the Netherlands that it said will be the largest project of its kind in Europe when operational in 2025.
Jul 7, 2022 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, Europe, Netherlands, shell, green hydrogen, wind, oil and gas majors
Will the pandemic trigger a boom for rooftop solar?
The UK solar field arised reasonably unharmed from the pandemic in 2020 as well as now thinks that it can take advantage of the new work from house culture, which has seen residential energy expenses rise. We speak to Solar Energy UK to figure out a lot more.
Mar 10, 2021 // Residential, Rooftop PV, UK, Europe, rooftop PV, Chris Hewet
On the route of natural solar cells' effectiveness
In their research, by exploring the resonances of the particles in the slim movies, the researchers had the ability to reveal that extremely basic quantum impacts, supposed absolutely no factor resonances, can make a substantial payment to voltage losses. The research study has actually currently been released in the journal Nature Communications.
Mar 25, 2020 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, efficiency
Solar is essential to develop the France of 2030
KilowattSol CEO Xavier Daval has actually criticized the absence of references to solar in the French government's post-Covid recuperation strategy, which has designated EUR30 billion to the power shift. The head of the PV technical advisory states solar must become a lot more main to France's critical choices as well as China must not be enabled to preserve its near-monopoly on PV panel manufacturing.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, France, Europe, Xavier Daval, covid-19
Carbon nanotubes lead the way for silicon in storage
Researchers in the United States have actually established a carbon nanotube approach of producing a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode. The gadget apparently showed far better than 87% capability retention after 1,500 cycles. The designers claim their exploration gets over a number of the challenges to using silicon as an anode as well as might open making use of various other products for electrodes in lithium-ion gadgets
Apr 2, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, silicon, North America, lithium-ion battery, PNNL, Rice University, carbon nanotube method
Heliogen Stock - the Most Anticipated IPO by Green Investors
Heliogen, a new technology endeavor, states it has actually focused solar energy to go beyond temperature levels higher than 1000 ° C at its business plant
Apr 30, 2024