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Sungrow Signs 500 MWac Contract For PV Inverter Solutions in Brazil
The contract is with Mercury Renew to Supply PV Inverter Solutions to the Helio Valgas Solar Park in Brazil. Sungrow has become a market leader in Latin America, crossing the 5 GW milestone last year.
Apr 1, 2022 // Inverters, Sungrow, International, brazil solar, Helio Valgas project, Mercury renew, Pedro Fiuza
Biden to provide $3.1 B to support domestic production of EV batteries
President Joe Biden's management stated it will supply $3.1 billion in funding to support the domestic production of sophisticated batteries that will stimulate electric vehicle fostering.
May 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, EV batteries, Joe Biden, LG Energy
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
Altius Announces $32.5 million investments in RE platform
Altius' subsidiary Great Bay Renewables has actually carried out agreements to spend into a new international renewables development platform called Bluestar Energy Capital. Great Bay is likewise investing alongside another institutional financier for a minority equity ownership in Bluestar
May 9, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Declan Flanagan, Renewable Energy, Lincoln Clean Energy, Apollo Global Management, Altius Renewable Royalties Corp, Bluestar Energy Capital, Frank Getman, Great Bay Renewables, Nova Clean Energy, Ørsted Onshore
'A step in the wrong direction': United States utility-scale solar deployment fell 53% in Q2
US utility-scale solar installments in Q2 2022 were down 53% year-on-year as policy headwinds and trade concerns affected growth and raised the stockpile of postponed projects, a new report has actually disclosed.
Jul 28, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Policy, California, USA, PPA, Texas, Invenergy, North America, Indiana, deployment statistics, American Clean Power Association, AD/CVD
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
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 $1 million each year.
Aug 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Benjamin Damiani
Four out of five fossil fuel giants dismiss findings of report into EU lobbying efforts
U.S. oil major Chevron did not respond to pv magazine’s questions. Exxon Mobil and BP did not produce figures for their clean energy investment activity and Total responded only with its ‘low carbon electricity’ spending. Shell stated it had invested €1.6 billion in clean energy from late 2016 up to June.
Oct 28, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Europe, North America, shell, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and BP
Game changer: Violet Power to supply 50-year solar panel guarantee with US-made IBC innovation
Coming out of stealth-mode, US-based integrated PV panel production startup, Violet Power intends to interfere with the PV industry with internal manufacturing of high-efficiency IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) solar cells. The company will certainly use cell-to-module 'flex circuit' as well as thermal plastic encapsulant innovation in a glass/glass setup that will have a solar panel guarantee of 50 years, greater than three times the standard in the market, today.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, USA, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, monocrystalline wafer, North America, REC Silicon, sunpower corporation, violet power, interdigitated back contact, wafering, isc konstanz
Biden suggests 10-year ITC expansion in US$ 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
Green hydrogen project powered by solar under development in California
Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have gotten in a joint venture arrangement to create a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California.
Nov 28, 2022 // Solar to Fuel, California, USA, North America, green hydrogen, Jason Baran
EDF Renewables & Munich Re's MEAG to Invest in United States Renewable Energy Projects
A subsidiary of Munich Re acquired a 50% stake in 2 renewable energy projects in California. The complete capacity of the renewable energy projects is 310 MWdc of solar and also 50 MW/200 MWh of battery storage.
Dec 28, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, MUNICH RE, EDF Renewables North America, MEAG, Andres Estrada, Californiarenewable energy projects, Alexander Poll, Maverick 6 Solar-plus-Storage Project, Maverick 7 Solar Project