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Eolus Secures Milestone Payments for Arizona Solar+Storage
Eolus’ Centennial Flats reaches key milestones in Arizona—500 MW solar plus 267 MW storage—after a 2022 sale, triggering progress-based payments tied to its landmark solar-plus-storage deal.
Aug 14, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Eolus
Why Desalinating Water is Hard — and Why We Might Need To Anyway
Desalination technology has been around for decades. But turning salt into fresh water takes more energy and money than is often worthwhile.
Dec 30, 2019 // Thermal, desalination, Manzoor Qadir
Large-scale solar deployment grabs in Spain
Solar is gaining back rate in Spain after the Covid-19 crisis. Iberdrola is now constructing 150 MW, while Foresight lately obtained a 26.1 MW project. FRV has safeguarded financing for a 136 MW array, Audax prepares to release green bonds to finance its pipeline, and also an 800 MW solar park is expected to supply with power Alcoa's aluminum plant in Galicia.
Sep 11, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Alcoa
Building a successful renewables auction in Colombia
pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras spoke to Carolina Obando, regulatory coordinator at renewable energy association SER Colombia, to discuss the country’s first renewable energy auction. The delayed tender promises to boost a solar industry with a 4.3 GW pipeline.
Sep 3, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Opinions, Rooftop PV, rooftop PV, Eckhart Gouras, Carolina Obando, SER Colombia, Maria Fernanda Suárez
DESRI begin in Louisiana, SunPower's ESG and also diversity push
A round-up of the current stories from the United States solar market, including information of D. E. Shaw breaking ground on Louisiana's biggest under-construction solar farm as well as a double hire from Sunpower to boost its ESG and variety qualifications.
Oct 6, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, Lightsource BP, North America, DESRI, Tom Werner, esg, diversity
Engie in Final Talks with Hawaiian Electric for Solar plus Storage Project
French international electrical utility Engie stated that its project has actually been chosen by the US-based Hawaiian Electric as one of the 16 in the last honor team for the stage 2 variable sustainable dispatchable generation and also power storage space projects.
May 25, 2020 // Storage, Battery Storage, Engie, solar plus storage, Carlalberto Guglielminotti, International, Solar Project, hawaiian electric, Engie EPS, Hawai
Tandem solar modules vs commercial crystalline
Researchers in France have tried to predict the competitiveness of tandem PV modules versus industrial crystalline items in 2030. Crystalline items will be 22-24% reliable in a years, according to the researchers, perhaps 25% if interdigitated back-contact heterojunction versions come to be mainstream. To contend, tandem devices will require to supply similar lifetime and also degradation prices, plus effectiveness of 30%.
Jul 22, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, France, pv modules, solar cells, Europe, perovskite
Canadian Solar wins 394 MW of solar in two private auctions in Brazil
After emerging as the recipient of most of the Brazilian government’s public allocation of generation capacity, the Canadian-Chinese manufacturer has secured a large share of projects in auctions held by power companies Copel and, probably, Cemig.
Oct 10, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, South america, Brazil, Cemig, Copel, Sao Paulo
Powertis cements Brazil position with 765MW PV portfolio
Powertis is to develop four projects in total across Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The most significant project, which is anticipated to have a capacity of 495MW, will be joined by three separate 90MW projects.
Sep 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, Powertis, São Paulo, Pablo Otín
A blast of gas for better solar cells
A basic procedure for transferring silicon oxide onto silicon wafers could be a fantastic progression for making silicon-based solar cells. Researchers at KAUST have utilized a method called plasma processing in a chamber filled with carbon dioxide gas.
Oct 28, 2020 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, solar cells, Asia, KAUST, Areej Alzahrani, Stefaan De Wolf
CDPQ Rises Risk, currently Bulk Stakeholder in Azure Power
Azure Power has actually introduced that CDPQ has actually gotten extra shares of AZRE, to come to be a bulk stakeholder in the India solar energy developer.
Mar 11, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Azure Power, CDPQ, Ranjit Gupta, Emmanuel Jaclot
ReneSola Crosses 20 GW Solar Modules Shipment Mark
ReneSola has actually gone across the 20 GW components delivery turning point, with the last delivery provided to a solar PV project in southerly Brazil in December 2019.
Mar 16, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, pv modules, renesola, International, Sky Wang
Trina to re-list on Shanghai Stock Exchange
The Jiangsu-based PV maker complies with peer JA Solar in de-listing in the U.S. to go back to its homeland. The board will certainly wish to access to even more financing because of this, as well as will certainly additionally encounter much less public scrutiny.
Mar 17, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Trina
Abu Dhabi fund approves $105m for clean energy projects
The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development will support half a dozen megawatt scale projects featuring solar in the Caribbean and Africa. In addition to around 42.5 MW of new solar capacity, the fund will also back the development of energy storage, waste-to-energy and biogas facilities.
Jan 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Abu Dhabi, ADFD, Francesco La Camera
Work begins on 30 MW solar plant in Burkina Faso
Electricity created by the center will be offered at $0.08/ kWh to nationwide utility Sonabel. Burkina Faso just recently adopted a solar-oriented energy policy.
Feb 5, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Burkina Faso, Sonabel














