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Duke Energy sets up 35-MW solar PPA for Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina is the initial district to carry out an eco-friendly power contract under utility Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage (GSA) program, more increasing solar power in the state.
May 14, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North Carolina, PPA, Duke Energy, Stephen De May, North America, Mayor Vi Lyles
CS Energy Finishes Building of Largest Solar Plant in New Jersey
CS Energy has actually revealed that it has actually effectively finished the building and construction deal with the biggest solar plant in New Jersey.
May 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, New Jersey, North America, PV Power Plant, International, CS Energy, US Navy
Study: Germany needs clean energy surge to replace coal, nuclear
Germany must embrace renewables and energy storage at an unprecedented scale if it hopes to offset the void left behind by coal and nuclear phase-outs, a new study has said.
Sep 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, storage, ENERGY STORAGE, Germany, Europe, subsidies, bsw, zero-subsidy pv, Carsten Körnig
France, Netherlands, UK commit US$350m to emerging solar and storage
A handful of European states have moved to bankroll various World Bank clean energy initiatives, with US$100 million of French and Dutch money set to back PV in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sep 23, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, storage, France, UK, Europe, world bank, Netherlands, BESS, emerging markets, emerging pv, cif
Yingli in talks with creditors over break up
The Chinese solar manufacturer today admitted it is in talks with its lenders and strategic investors about a break up of the company after its 2018 annual accounts revealed an apparently unserviceable debt pile. Any strategic investor is likely to constitute a Chinese state-backed bail-out.
Oct 20, 2019 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, yingli
Chinese module maker Trina explores tie-ups to fund distressed solar projects
Trina Solar has reviewed four to five projects and is now eyeing assets of 50-150MW size in two Indian states. The projects will be completed with Trina modules and the Chinese firm will also provide competitive long-term project financing to the developer
Nov 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, China, Asia, Trina Solar, Raj Kumar Roy
Saudi scientists perform 'first ever' effective damp-heat examination of perovskite solar cells, maintains 95% efficiency
Scientists in Saudi Arabia have actually reported the "the very first" successful damp-heat examination of perovskite solar cells, which they claim has relocated the technology closer in the direction of industrial viability after it held up against 1,000 hours of extreme conditions as well as kept a 95% effectiveness.
Feb 22, 2022 // Technology, Manufacturing News, perovskite, perovskite cells, KAUST, degradation, durability, potential induced degradation
Portugal floating solar auction gathers record negative price, awards 183MW
Portugal's very first floating solar auction closed with a world record-low price, with utilities EDP and also Endesa among the winning bidders, the nation's environment ministry has actually announced.
Apr 6, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, Portugal, EDP, Voltalia, Finerge, floating PV, Europe, auction, Endesa, world record, joao galamba, hybridisation
European Solar Effort introduced to drive continent's PV production growth
A European Commission-backed project has been released to scale up Europe's PV production sector and also record the continent's "growing need" for solar equipment.
Feb 25, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Walburga Hemetsberger, meyer burger, SolarPower Europe, European Union, European Green Deal, Diego Pavia, eit innoenergy, sfi con london, european manufacturing
Rikers Island might come to be a renewable resource and storage space center
Rikers Island, the well known island house to New york city City's main jail complex, is to be made use of to discover the development of renewable resource generation as well as battery power storage.
Mar 9, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, New York, solar-plus-storage, North America, colocation, bill de blasio, feasibility study, rikers island
OPDEnergy Begins Operation of 50 MW Solar Plant in Spain
OPDEnergy has announced the completion of construction work on its new solar PV plant Zafra, located in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), Spain
Jan 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, pv power plants, Europe, OPDEnergy, Luis Cid
BayWa r.e. sells Spanish subsidy-free solar sequel to major European insurer
A solar project part of a landmark subsidy-free series in Spain has found a new owner, a major insurance group set to buy the plant as it nears commissioning.
Jan 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free pv, baywa r.e., Don Rodrigo, Benedikt Ortmann, talanx
Testing floating PV with tracking systems
French water management agency Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) is planning an innovative floating project to test its combination with a solar tracking system. The 250 kW project was awarded a fixed tariff in a special tender for innovative PV projects held by The French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) in February 2018. The plant will be deployed on a water surface managed by SCP in Southern France.
Jan 29, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, France, tender, floating PV, Europe, SCP
Silicon heterojunction solar cell hits 23.5% performance with brand-new hole-selective get in touch with
Scientists from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have actually utilized molybdenum oxide as the hole-selective call in an heterojuction silicon cell. The researchers declare the substance can take on conventional get in touches with in spite of a reduced degree of optimization.
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, solar cell, heterojunction, silicon, Switzerland, EPFL
Storage space dominates in France's capability public auction
The Ministry for the Ecological and also Inclusive Transition's long-lasting public auction was arranged by grid driver RTE under the French ability purchase system. Storage space made up 253 MW of the ability designated in the public auction, which was open to all decarbonizing innovations.
Feb 28, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, auction













