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Building field plan calls for solar on all new EU buildings
The European Parliament has actually embraced a suggested revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, establishing a demand for all new buildings in the bloc to be geared up with roof solar systems.
Mar 17, 2023 // Rooftop PV, Europe, european parliament
Brazil's Ceara state gives enviro authorization for 4.6-GW solar project
The Brazilian state of Ceara on Friday approved ecological approval for a 4.6-GW solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) project which will generate power for the production of green hydrogen in Brazil's northeast.
Dec 5, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, Solar Project, Ceara
German steel maker, municipal utility to build 150-MW solar park in Saxony
German municipal utility SachsenEnergie and neighborhood steelmaker Feralpi Stahl are preparing to jointly construct a 150-MW solar park in the federal state of Saxony to secure a lasting power supply for the business in the region.
Jun 8, 2023 // Plants, Germany, Europe, PV Power Plant, Solar Park
Boom Power Victory: Crays Hall Solar Farm Approved
Boom Power granted planning permission for 25.6MW Crays Hall Solar Farm in Essex, England. Project to generate up to 12,500 family homes' electricity needs, offsetting 13,300 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Expected to deliver 94% biodiversity net gain & 53% gain for linear habitats. Construction to commence in 1st half of 2022.
Sep 13, 2023 // Plants, UK, Europe, Boom Power
Solarvest, GreenRock to Deploy 1 GW Renewables in Asia
Solarvest Holdings Bhd partners with GreenRock Energy to deploy 1 GW of renewable energy in Malaysia and Taiwan, driving towards a sustainable future.
Jun 24, 2024 // Plants, Asia, Solarvest Holdings
Liquid-like activity in crystals could describe their encouraging actions in solar cells
The sun supplies much more energy to Earth in one hour than mankind consumes over a whole year. Researchers worldwide are looking for materials that can cost-effectively and also efficiently record this carbon-free energy and transform it into power.
May 20, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, doe, Argonne National Laboratory, Olivier Delaire
Double-Sided Solar Panels Follow the Sun for Cost-Effective Energy
Researchers combined bifacial photovoltaic panels as well as single-axis tracking to improve energy generation by 35 percent.
Aug 31, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Asia, Singapore, bifacial solar panels, Carlos Rodríguez-Gallegos
Queensland Greenlights $1.6bn Cambridge Solar Project
The Burdekin Shire Council backs the AUD 2.4 billion Cambridge Solar Farm, setting the stage for a sustainable energy future with a groundbreaking 1,566-hectare solar complex!
Oct 15, 2024 // Plants, queensland, Solar Project
SMC plans to put up 200-MW solar farm in Bulacan
San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is considering building a 200-megawatt solar farm in Bulacan that would provide the electrical energy demands of its P740-billion New Manila International Airport project in the very same province.
Nov 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Asia, Philippines, solar farm, San Miguel Corp., Bulacan, Ramon Ang
Enel Green Power introduces agrophotovoltaics research projects in southerly Europe
Enel Green Power has started a brand-new programme to explore just how to effectively integrate cultivatable and also pastoral farming tasks together with large-scale solar PV projects.
Feb 10, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Spain, Greece, Italy, Enel, Europe, enel green power, Agriculture, agrophotovoltaics, Miriam Di Blasi
Supermarket rooftop brings commercial solar – and silicon carbide inverters – to Norway
The sizeable rooftop array will feature latest-generation inverters. The project planners claim using 1500 V technology on a commercial rooftop allowed them to drive down costs 10-15%.
Oct 9, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Rooftop PV, Europe, rooftop PV, Kaco, Siemens, Norway, Trine Kopstad Berenten
Solarpack launches click & go remote self-consumption model for Spanish customers
Spanish developer Solarpack has launched a new business line with its click & go brand that enables customers to protect clean power straight from Solarpack's solar assets under a remote self-consumption model.
Mar 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, Solarpack, self-consumption, click&go, remote consumption
Botswana Power Corporation Awards Scatec ASA First Huge Scale Solar Agreement
Scatec will certainly create the solar energy center with an acquired capacity of 50 MW at Selebi Phikwe. The solar power plant will make sure that roughly 48,000 lots of CO2 emissions will be avoided and power roughly 20,000 homes annually.
Sep 2, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Scatec, power purchase agreement, African Development Bank, Jan Fourie, Botswana Power Corporation, Botswana solar project, Botswana Vision 2036, BPC
Major solar projects change hands in Colorado, California
The US renewables business of Japanese oil and gas major Idemitsu Kosan has bought a 100MW solar project in Colorado from GCL New Energy, a subsidiary of China's GCL New Energy Holdings.
Sep 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Grids, California, USA, Colorado, North America, GCL New Energy, acquisitions,, project acquisitions, 8minute, allianz global investors, solar frontier americas, Charles Pimentel, 8minute Solar Energy
UNIST Enhances Quantum Dot Solar Cell Efficiency to 11.53%
Ulsan National Institute of Science as well as Technology (UNIST) has actually raised the performance of a quantum dot solar battery, which transforms sunshine right into electrical power making use of quantum dots, to 11.53 percent by integrating quantum dots as well as natural polymers.
Apr 24, 2020 // Technology, Asia, Korea, solar cell, efficiency, UNIST, Jang Seong-yeon