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Scania begins checking semi-truck trailer covered in photovoltaic panels
Automakers have been playing with solar panels on autos for decades now. In sunny places, on ultra-lightweight, aerodynamic autos covered in them, solar cells can supply propulsion for long periods of time. But on manufacturing automobiles that have security, comfort and styling factors to consider, there are limitations to what solar panels can do.
Oct 8, 2020 // Transport, Scania, Volkswagen Group
Alliant Energy upgrades 2.55-MW Iowa solar plant with storage
Greater than 9,500 solar panels currently produce clean power at Alliant Energy's brand-new Marshalltown Solar Garden in Marshalltown, Iowa. This pilot project integrates solar energy and battery storage space to create, shop and provide power to clients.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, North America, alliant energy, PV Power Plant, Terry Kouba
Markus Kayser: solar sinter 3D printer
London-based markus kayser, a masters candidate in design products at the royal college of art, converts the raw resources of sunlight and sand into glass products with his fully automated, solar-powered ‘solar sinter‘ 3D printer.
Sep 20, 2019 // BIPV, Technology, bipv, UK, Europe, London, 3D printer, solar sinter, Markus Kayser, Building-integrated photovoltaics
One more upright PV plant in the Alps
Greater than 1,200 solar components will certainly be mounted on the south side of a dam 2,100 meters over water level. The center prepared by utility EWZ is readied to prepare this year.
Apr 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV plant, Europe, Switzerland, Alps
Innovative ‘light harvesting material’ will be produced at a new Swedish factory
Sweden-based solar maker Exeger is building a new factory to manufacture an advanced dye-sensitized material, which is supposed to allow solar-powered portable e-gadgets to operate infinitely with no need for battery recharge.
Nov 21, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, ABB, Sweden, Europe, Exeger
Hyundai-made vehicle with solar rooftop charging
Hyundai Motor has created the world’s first vehicle equipped with solar roof-mount charging. The innovative solution is claimed to provide extra electrical power, maximize fuel efficiency and driving distance.
Nov 26, 2019 // Transport, Asia, Korea, North America, Hyundai Motor, New Sonata Hybrid
Researchers have discovered how to avoid energy waste by solar modules
Hot electrons can appear a key to maximizing energy collection from the sun by photovoltaic panels.
Nov 27, 2019 // Technology, pv modules, Europe, Asia, Netherlands, Singapore, PV cells, UG, NTU
Rio Tinto continues solar-storage press with new hybrid installation at Australian mine
Mining business Rio Tinto has revealed plans for a brand-new solar project and battery power storage system that will certainly aid to decarbonise an off-grid mine in the Australian state of Queensland.
Sep 20, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Australia, queensland, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, mining, mines, Rio Tinto, Battery Energy Storage System, edl
Helmholtz Center achieves 29.80% performance for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell
The result was certified by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems' (ISE) CalLab as well as included in the charts of the united state Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Nov 22, 2021 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, perovskite, silicon, efficiency, HZB, Helmholtz Center Berlin, Alexandros Cruz Bournazou
New Intl Consortium to Breakthrough High-Tech Mirrors Made Use Of in Solar Plants
The United State Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), signed up with by companions at Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, has revealed the launch of the Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon): a worldwide initiative to drive down the cost of heliostats.
Dec 23, 2021 // Technology, USA, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, North America, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, Heliostat Consortium, U.S Department of Energy
BIPV panels covering an entire building in Taiwan
The Sun Rock structure is possessed by Taiwan's power utility Taipower. It was covered with 4,000 square meters of PV panels deployed by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV.
Jan 19, 2022 // BIPV, Taiwan, BIPV panels, MVRDV, Winy Maas
Lithuanian handled fund to build 166MW PV in Romania
INVL Renewable Energy Fund 1 will spend EUR120m on the projects that are due online in 2024
Jun 6, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Romania
Solar, wind bodies unite to drive finance into African renewables
Trade bodies from the solar as well as wind industries have actually united to drive renewable energy financing for African nations.
Jul 18, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, South Africa, SolarPower Europe, renewables investment, africa solar industry association
SunCommon includes 48.6-kW solar array to Wave Farm arts and also broadcast center
Wave Farm, a non-profit arts company and leader of the Transmission Arts genre, has teamed up with SunCommon to solarize its 29-acre campus, consisting of a Study Center and also a dozen media art installations, as well as its FM broadcast tower website, by replacing non-renewable energy sources with 48.6 kW of solar energy.
Oct 11, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV Power Plant, suncommon, Wave Farm, Tavit Geudelekian
UK programmer wins Tregonning solar green light
Building can start on the 50MW project in 2024
Jan 17, 2023 // Plants, UK, Europe, Renewable Connections, Tregonning solar farm