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DOE commits to awarding Sunnova $3 billion for new VPP loan program
Sunnova simply got a huge loan commitment from the Dept. of Energy to begin a solar loan channel for disadvantaged individuals and also communities.
Apr 21, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Sunnova, doe
Origis completes 100-MW Tennessee solar project for Google data centers
On April 25, representatives from Google, The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Origis Energy as well as Excelsior Energy Capital celebrated the conclusion of Skyhawk Solar, a 100-MWAC project situated in Obion County, Tennessee. Skyhawk Solar is a utility-scale solar project in Tennessee currently providing carbon-free energy (CFE) to Google's data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee as well as Jackson County, Alabama.
Apr 26, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, origis, PV Power Plant
Solar Wafer Manufacturing Eligible for 25% CHIPS ITC
Unlocking a brighter future: the 25% Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit boosts solar wafer manufacturing, paving the way for a stronger, sustainable energy supply chain in the U.S.
Oct 23, 2024 // Manufacturing News, solar wafer
NorSun Exits Norway, Invests in U.S. Solar Production
NorSun pivots to the U.S. after closing its domestic operations, signaling a shift in Europe’s solar landscape amid fierce Asian competition. New factory in Tulsa on the horizon!
Dec 18, 2024 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, NorSun
Solar to overtake wind in corporate renewable procurement
A new report by Wood Mackenzie and the American Wind Energy Association shows solar taking the favor of corporate renewable purchasers in 2021 and holding that crown to infinity and beyond.
Aug 22, 2019 // Solar, USA, Wood Mackenzie, American Wind Energy Association, North America, Target
Bipartisan bill looks to simplify distributed solar permitting in US
A Republican senator from Maine and a Democratic senator from New Mexico have introduced legislation that aims to slash costs and red tape currently complicating local permitting for distributed renewable energy, energy storage and electric vehicle (EV) charging systems.
Sep 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, Rooftop PV, USA, storage, North America, rooftop solar system, distributed solar, investment tax credit, Ross Hopper, Maine
Jena research study group provides unique approach to the storage of solar energy
Utilizing the power from the sunlight as successfully as nature does and also transforming it right into chemical energy might drastically lower worldwide CO2 emissions. A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and also the Friedrich Schiller University Jena has actually now come one action more detailed to this vision.
Sep 28, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Leibniz IPHT, Martin Schulz
Canadian 400 MWac merchant solar plant protects funding
The project will operate at a profit in part thanks to an emissions plan introduced by the province of Alberta on January 1. The plant will have the ability to sell its carbon certificates.
Feb 4, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, Dan Balaban, Christian Skakkebaek
Hanwha Q Cells Dedicates Largest Solar Panel Factory In Western Hemisphere
Hanwha Q Cells officially opened its 300,000 square foot solar panel factory in Dalton, Georgia last week, claiming it is the largest such manufacturing facility in the western hemisphere.
Sep 30, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Tariffs, Policy, USA, Georgia, Jinko Solar, First Solar, Trump, Europe, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, Brian Kemp, Scott Moskowitz, LG
‘They created a rechargeable world’
American John B. Goodenough, Brit Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, from Japan, have received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery. A statement from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden said the invention “laid the foundations of a society without wires and fossil fuels, and [they] are of great benefit to humanity”.
Oct 9, 2019 // Technology, Storage, USA, Japan, Lithium-ion batteries, Germany, UK, Europe, Asia, North America, John B. Goodenough, Brit Stanley Whittingham, Akira Yoshino, Nobel Prize
Solar Cleansing Start-up Solavio Labs Obtains Financing from Canadian Province
Solavio Labs, an Indian tidy tech startup introducing in the photovoltaic panel cleaning innovation space has introduced the completion of funding from Canadian Province-- New Brunswick for Rs 40,60,000 taking their overall fund elevated to Rs 2 crores.
Feb 19, 2021 // Technology, India, Asia, Start-up, Solavio, Suraj Mohan
US solar industry asks Biden to end 'vindictive as well as ill-conceived' bifacial tariffs
Loads of chief executives in the renewable resource sector have demanded that US President Joe Biden reverse the tariff hike Donald Trump's Administration positioned on solar panel imports last year.
Feb 23, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Policy, USA, SEIA, bifacial, Lightsource BP, North America, Joe Biden, solar tariffs, president biden, Heather Zichal
US solar hits 100GW turning point yet supply problems can prevent development leads
The US installed greater than 5GWdc of solar ability in Q1 2021, taking its collective ability past the 100GW barrier, yet supply chain restraints could position a major barrier to additional growth.
Jun 15, 2021 // Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Grids, USA, SEIA, Texas, Wood Mackenzie, North America, utility
NASA Solar Array Technology Now Powering Communications Satellites
Compact Telescoping Array (CTA), a technology developed at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is used to give solar energy to satellites precede.
A solar array is a collection of numerous photovoltaic panels that create power as a system.
Jul 23, 2021 // Technology, NASA, Northrop Grumman, solar array, Charles Taylor, Compact Telescoping Array, CTA, Richard Pappa
KORE Power to build huge lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Arizona
KORE Power has plans to create a lithium-ion battery production facility in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Jul 31, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, lithium-ion battery, KORE Power, Lindsay Gorrill, Buckeye Mayor Eric Orsborn