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Space-starved Singapore constructs floating solar farms in climate battle
Countless panels glinting in the sunlight stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state's press to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mar 9, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Asia, Singapore, Jen Tan, Shawn Tan, Subhod Mhaisalkar
Major advancement in producing new family members of semiconductor materials
MIT engineers report producing the very first high-grade thin films of a new household of semiconductor materials. The task, which lead scientist Rafael Jaramillo describes as his "white whale" because of his fixation in pursuing it over the years, has the potential to effect several areas of technology if background repeats itself. The capability to develop top notch films of other families of semiconductors brought about computers, solar cells, night-vision video cameras, and extra.
Oct 4, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, perovskite, MIT, North America, Thomas Lord
Scientists from UK & Japan Unravel Perovskite's High Effectiveness Enigma
Its heterogeneity of chemical aspects triggers problems in perovskite that reduce the photovoltaic or pv performance of solar cells made from it.
Despite this, perovskite products still show effectiveness levels equivalent to their silicon choices.
Nov 23, 2021 // Technology, Japan, Asia, perovskite, Sam Stranks, University of Cambridge, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Cavendish Laboratory, Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility, Kyle Frohna
Sponge-like solar cells could be basis for far better pacemakers
Openings aid make sponges and also English muffins useful (and, when it comes to the last, tasty). Without openings, they would not be flexible enough to flex into tiny gaps, or to absorb the ideal amount of jam as well as butter.
Jun 8, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, University of Chicago, Bozhi Tian, Jiuyun Shi, Aleksander Prominski
Brazil ROUND-UP: Next month’s auction, LONGi’s DG move, Canadian Solar’s duo
Solar winners of the first Brazilian A-6 auction ever to admit PV bids will be offered 20-year supply deals with the government, newly-released official documents show.
Sep 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Canadian Solar, Enel, tender, jair bolsonaro, auction, LONGi, mori energia, minas gerais, Joining Actis, Romeu Zema
Payment for curtailments of sustainable generation in Ukraine
Since November 2019, particular RES manufacturers have actually been periodically compelled to lower their result or stop manufacturing of electric power completely under the guidelines of Ukraine's transmission system driver, NEC Ukrenergo. DTEK, together with numerous various other big market gamers led the call for restrictions. Most of the nation's RES manufacturers have actually come to be concerned.
May 26, 2020 // Opinions, Ukraine, Europe, RES producers, Max Lebedev, Taras Lytovchenko
CubicPV is narrowing down location look for 10-GW silicon wafer manufacturing facility
There are several steps in the silicon photovoltaic panel manufacturing procedure: silicon is melted as well as shaped right into ingots that are sliced right into wafers, which then develop into cells that are ultimately constructed right into a photovoltaic panel.
Apr 17, 2023 // Manufacturing News, USA, North America, silicon wafer, CubicPV
Can floating solar islands meet the globe's future power needs?
Trygve Kristiansen researches on floating solar power, which are photovoltaics supported on the water. He believes that floating solar panels might play an important worldwide duty in the transition to greener modern technologies. He is a professor of marine innovation at NTNU.
Jan 6, 2023 // Floating PV, NTNU, Trygve Kristiansen
Flixbus fleet examinations 18% CIGS panels
After announcing plans to test hydrogen fuel cell buses in November, the European coach travel route planning start-up has begun a pilot project to reduce diesel consumption by using solar panels on the vehicles of its partner companies. FlixBus says the ultra-thin, lightweight CIGS modules help save 1.7 litres of diesel per 100km.
Feb 11, 2020 // Transport, Germany, Europe, CIGS panels, Flixbus
2D ingredients make perovskite solar cells much more long lasting in the Sun
The Sun is a terrific resource of power, yet obviously those rays can be harmful too. Designers in Korea have actually currently created a brand-new means to make perovskite solar cells to shield them from the components without lowering their performance.
Mar 30, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, Asia, Korea, perovskite, efficiency, kaist, Byungha Shin
Encavis gets BayWa r.e. Dutch solar profile
European independent power manufacturer (IPP) Encavis has actually gotten a profile of Dutch solar possessions with an integrated capability of 80MWp from renewables developer BayWa r.e
Apr 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, Europe, Netherlands, finance, baywa r.e., Floating solar, encavis, lsdigital, financedigital, secondary market
Sherburne County may require solar farms to be pollinator-friendly
New solar farms in Sherburne County may soon have to do more than just produce energy from the sun.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Minnesota, Sherburne, Marc Schneider, Rob Davis
Danish researchers bring some color to rooftop PV
Scientists led by the Technical University of Denmark have begun a project to design solar cells that can be produced in different colors with minimal effect on performance, making them suitable for building-integrated and other applications with aesthetic considerations.
Oct 1, 2019 // Technology, Rooftop PV, bipv, Germany, Europe, Fraunhofer ISE, rooftop PV, Denmark, Building-integrated photovoltaics, DTU, colored PV modules, Peter Poulsen, Danish Solar Energy Ltd
Ambibox reports efficiency world record for solar DC charging of electric off-road buggy
A German start-up achieved more than 99% efficiency when charging a vehicle developed by the Bochum University of Applied Sciences with electricity from solar cells. Ambibox’s DC charging technology was used in a research project in the Australian desert.
Oct 22, 2019 // Technology, Germany, UK, Australia, Europe, Oceania, Bochum University, Manfred Przybilla
Baywa re sells German grid-parity solar plant to Encavis
The Munich-based group sold five solar parks with a total generation capacity of around 35 MW to the Hamburg-headquartered power producer. One of the five plants was among Germany’s first unsubsidized PV projects.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, encavis, Baywa re, Matthias Taft, Karsten Mieth
















