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Construction underway for Panama’s self-styled largest solar plant
The utility-scale solar momentum slowly coursing through Latin America looks set to extend to one of the region’s smallest countries, with a large project now progressing through construction.
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, Europe, North America, esslatam, solarcentury, panama, inelsa, hedomin, Manuel Domínguez
KORE Power will start a 10-GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the United States
KORE Power today announced its intentions to build a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the United States to support global growth efforts for its Mark 1 Energy Storage System.
Oct 22, 2019 // Storage, USA, China, Asia, North America, lithium-ion battery, KORE Power, Lindsay Gorrill
Acciona shareholders give green light to IPO of renewables unit
Spanish power company Acciona has safeguarded shareholder approval for an initial public offering (IPO) of its renewables department, providing a boost for the firm's plans to reach 6GW of set up PV by 2025.
Apr 12, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, IPO, Europe, Acciona, initial public offering, acciona energia, José Manuel Entrecanales
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
Dynamic Energy constructing 6.6-MW solar array to power Maine grocery store chain
Dynamic Energy Solutions commenced construction of a 6.6-MWDC ground-mounted solar array in Norridgewock, Maine. The project includes a spots offtake contract with grocer Albertsons Companies, as well as it is just one of the largest business solar installations in Maine's solar market.
Aug 26, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, USA, North America, Dynamic Energy, John Conley
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
SunPower Secures $1 Billion in Solar Plus Storage Financing
SunPower has actually revealed that a brand-new USD 1 billion collaboration with Tech CU will certainly boost funding choices for certified United States domestic solar consumers.
May 6, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, SunPower Solar Financing, Tech CU, Norm Taffe, Deborah Crouch
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
Ford Motors Signs 650 MW PPA With United States Energy Company DTE Energy
DTE will certainly raise the amount of solar energy set up in Michigan by about 70% by including 650 megawatts under its MIGreenPower initiative for Ford. Every Ford vehicle constructed in Michigan will certainly be put together utilizing the power that is 100% carbon-free by 2025, which is ten years earlier than Ford's worldwide target. By utilizing carbon-free electrical power, Ford will protect against approximately 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. The acquisition will aid Ford move closer to carbon nonpartisanship and also bring in jobs and tax money for Michigan.
Aug 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, clean energy, Solar Energy Industries Association, SEIA, Renewable Energy, International, green energy, dte energy, electric vehicle (EV) market, Ford Motors
US sets up 'record levels' of grid batteries in Q2
Installations reached 2608MWh having been boosted by a series of implementations in Texas, claims WoodMac
Sep 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Vanessa Witte
Minerals company ICL To Invest $400 Million in Lithium Battery Materials Facility in United States
ICL was granted $197 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law financing and the plant is expected to be operational by 2024. The manufacturing facility will have 2 assembly line and also each production line will certainly be capable of producing 15,000 metric lots of LFP product yearly.
Oct 21, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, department of energy, McCarthy, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, cathode active material, Aleees, ICL, Lithium Iron Phosphate, minerals company ICL, Phil Brown