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Total taps French regional bank to refinance 143MW wind, PV portfolio
Total Quadran has enlisted a French financier to pump new capital into an up-and-running renewable energy portfolio, split between 40-plus projects across the country.
Jan 28, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, France, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, Total, refinancing
Vena Energy Starts Building 408-MWh Battery in South Australia
Vena Energy begins construction of a 408-MWh battery at Tailem Bend, expanding its solar-storage hub and boosting South Australia’s grid stability.
Dec 8, 2025 // Storage, Australia, South Australia, Oceania, energy transition, Vena Energy, Tailem Bend
Storm Damages LEAG's 29-MWp Floating Solar Park
Storm Strikes: LEAG's Floating Solar Plant on Cottbuser Ostsee Lake Faces Setback, Underscoring Climate Challenges for Renewable Energy Infrastructure.
Feb 28, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Germany, Europe, PV Power Plant, LEAG
Merit Controls launches new inverter monitoring and also controls platform
Merit Controls has actually revealed the launch of its flagship PiQ41 grid assimilation item platform. The protected monitoring and controls platform is created to take care of utility-scale inverter-based generation sources and asset portfolios.
Feb 9, 2023 // Software, Merit Controls
EnfraGen Buys 188-MW Latin American Renewables Portfolio
EnfraGen LLC acquires 188-MW renewables and grid portfolio in Panama & Costa Rica - a debt refinancing drives accretive balance sheet.
Nov 17, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, North America, panama, Costa Rica, EnfraGen
Solar forecasting errors in the US lower than formerly believed, says Berkeley Lab research
The average price of forecasting errors in the US is less than previously assumed at less than US$ 1/MWh, according to a research by Berkeley Lab that utilized a new, openly available approach to check out the method.
Jan 25, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, North America, Berkeley, solar forecasting, ISOs, NAM forecast, performance
Just how different shade problems influence performance of solar cells linked in series
Large obstacles, like clouds and also structures, can block sunlight from getting to solar cells, but smaller resources, such as dirt and also leaves, can likewise create similar problems. Understanding exactly how the loss of inbound radiation affects power output is necessary for maximizing photovoltaic modern technology, which converts light into electrical power and is an essential factor to the green energy change.
Sep 28, 2022 // Technology, American Institute of Physics, soalr cell, Huaqing Xie, Shanghai Polytechnic University, Shanghai Solar Energy Research Center Co. Ltd, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Advanced Thermal Functional Materials
Twisting, flexible crystals essential to solar power manufacturing
Scientists at Duke University have actually revealed long-hidden molecular characteristics that supply preferable properties for solar energy and heat energy applications to an interesting class of products called halide perovskites.
Mar 16, 2021 // Technology, Solar Energy, perovskite, Duke University, Olivier Delaire, Volker Blum
EV Charging Robots By Volkswagen Revealed
The Volkswagen group has hinted that it is searching for a charging robot for EV. These are mobile charging robots that will make electric vehicles autonomous.
Dec 30, 2019 // Technology, Storage, Transport, VOLKSWAGEN, ENERGY STORAGE, Germany, Europe, electric vehicles, mobile charging robot, robot
Tilt Turns Cornerstone of Latrobe Valley's BESS
Tilt Renewables marks a historic milestone with the launch of Australia's first privately-funded 100-MW/200-MWh BESS in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. The AUD 243 million project is expected to be connected to the grid by 2024 and provide much-needed energy support for peak periods.
Dec 11, 2023 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Tilt Renewables
R.Power Launches 80-MWp Lasocice Solar Park, Construction Begins Q4 2025
R.Power will break ground in Q4 2025 on its 80-MWp Lasocice solar farm—the developer’s largest Polish project—set to supply 35,000 homes by 2027.
Jun 11, 2025 // Plants, Poland, Europe, r.power, Lasocice
Photosynthesis copycat may improve solar cells
A reasonably new kind of semiconductor, split atop a mirror-like structure, can mimic the manner in which leaves relocation energy from the sunlight over relatively long distances before using it to fuel chemical reactions. The method may one day improve the efficiency of solar cells.
Sep 7, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, University of Michigan, Stephen Forrest, Bin Liu
Hanergy Thin Film set to lose crucial hydropower project stakes – which could be auctioned off to Hanergy Mobile Energy
Troubled thin film manufacturer Thin Film will see a 51% controlling stake in a hugely profitable hydropower project auctioned off after a move by creditors. Hanergy Thin Film owner Li Hejun’s Hanergy Mobile Energy business in China says it will be among the bidders.
Aug 20, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Hanergy Thin Film, Hanergy Mobile Energy, Li Hejun, thin film
Enel X develops 1MWp PV plant for Romanian car parts manufacturer Compa
Enel X Romania, part of Italian energy team Enel, said that it constructed a 1 megawatt peak (MWp) solar energy plant for Romanian auto components manufacturer Compa [BSE: CMP]
Sep 10, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Romania, Enel X Romania, pv powr plant, Compa
Xcel Clears Path for Iron-Air Battery
Xcel Energy has received approval to build a 10-MW/1,000-MWh iron-air battery at its Sherburne coal-fired power plant in Becker, Minnesota. With 100 hours of energy storage, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst's USD-20-million commitment and Form Energy's Weirton, West Virginia manufacturing facility, this project marks the first of two iron-air batteries Xcel will install at retiring coal plants.
Jul 10, 2023 // Storage, USA, North America, Xcel