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BNDES Admits Arctech to FINAME, Boosting Solar Trackers Across Brazil
BNDES accreditation lets Arctech’s 1P solar trackers tap FINAME credit, cutting project costs and expanding the Chinese manufacturer’s Latin American reach.
Jul 14, 2025 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, South america, Brazil, BNDES, arctech, FINAME
Metlen Activates 12-MW Solar Park, Expands Footprint in Puglia Rapidly
Greek firm Metlen energises a 12-MW solar farm in Puglia, adding 22 GWh to Italy’s grid and paving the way for battery storage at the same site.
Jul 15, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Italy, Europe, PV Power Plant, Metlen, San Severo
NREL and CubicPV Set 24% Record Benchmark for Perovskite Minimodule
US partnership achieves 24 % certified efficiency in multi-cell perovskite minimodule, advancing tandem solar technology toward scalable, durable commercial production.
Jul 16, 2025 // Technology, NREL, perovskite, efficiency, CubicPV
Sunlit Ambitions: LONGi Panels Chosen for New Dominican Solar Boom
Elecnor selects LONGi’s Hi-MO 9 panels for the 60-MW Esperanza 2 solar farm in the Dominican Republic, boosting clean-energy capacity and slashing annual CO₂ emissions.
Jul 17, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, LONGi, Dominican Republic, North America, elecnor, EGE, Haina
Blue Moon Solar Wins Financing, Ignites Kentucky's Renewable Energy Momentum
Recurrent Energy secures USD 260 million to build the 94-MW Blue Moon Solar farm in Harrison County, Kentucky, targeting a 2026 start under a Constellation power deal.
Jul 17, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Canadian Solar, North America, constellation, Kentucky, recurrent energy
Xela Energy Wins Approval for IBM Solar Farm in Britain
Xela Energy secures final approval for a 5 MW solar farm to power IBM’s UK campus, pairing clean electricity with wildlife‑friendly design and local jobs.
Jul 23, 2025 // Plants, UK, PPA, Europe, Xela Energy, IBM Solar
NTU researchers create energy-saving 'liquid window'
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a liquid window panel that can concurrently block the sun to manage solar transmission, while capturing thermal warmth that can be launched via the night and day, helping to reduce power intake in buildings
Nov 6, 2020 // Technology, Asia, Singapore, liquid window, NTU Singapore, Long Yi, Wang Shancheng, Zhou Yang
Southeastern US specifies to include 15 GW of PV by 2023
Some states as well as utilities are driving the development, while others lag.
Jun 26, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Bryan Jacob
Solar film with incorporated optics to raise performance of PV panels
Finnish firm ICS has actually developed a foil which it asserts can dramatically increase the return of photovoltaic panels, when put on the edges of a PV module. Germany's Fraunhofer ISE has actually validated that the increase in efficiency for conventional solar components with the solar movie is ranging from 5% to 10%.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, Finland, ICS, Kari Rinko
Reliable, natural solar cells of the future
As part of his doctoral thesis, a young researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has actually devised a means to make natural solar cells extra effective.
Oct 20, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency, organic solar cells, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Christoph Brabec, Thomas Heumüller
SibFU scientists discovered material that can make solar cells more efficient
Researchers at Siberian Federal University, together with colleagues from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), discovered new properties of material based on palladium, which can increase the performance of solar cells.
Aug 5, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Solar, Solar to Fuel, Sweden, SibFU, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, solar cells, palladium, Artem Kuklin, Europe, hydrogen, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Sungrow to Supply Inverter Solutions to 500 MW Solar Plant in Oman
Sungrow will provide 1500V SG250HX inverter services to the 500 MWac IBRI II project in Oman, which is the biggest utility-scale solar plant in the Sultanate to day.
May 18, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Sungrow, Asia, inverter, Oman, International
European solar forecasting nonprofit victories Google.org financing
UK-based environment-friendly tech nonprofit Open Climate Fix has been awarded ₤ 500,000 in Google.org's Impact Challenge On Climate to create solar projecting.
Apr 13, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Google, Google.org, Open Climate Fix, protein folding, satellite imaging, Rowan Barnett, solar forecasting, Jack Kelly
Closing know modern semiconductor solar cells
A synthetic approach that improves absorber layers in perovskite solar cells might help them accomplish their full potential as well as draw closer to the performance of leading gallium arsenide tools.
May 5, 2021 // Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, solar cells, KAUST, Abdullah Alsalloum
Chinese LONGi Issues White Paper on its Smart Soldering Technology
China-based leading solar PV manufacturer LONGi has launched a white paper on its proprietary "Smart Soldering" technology, used in its new-generation Hi-MO 5 series high-power 182mm modules.
May 21, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Solar Energy, Asia, LONGi, solar module, White Paper, Smart Soldering technology, Solar Ribbon









