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SunPower grows Dealer Accelerator Program with financial investments in EmPower Solar and Renova Energy
lead in sales efficiency as well as craftmanship as a SunPower elite dealer in California and also Arizona. " Since 2010, SunPower has actually acknowledged Renova
Sep 16, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, SunPower, EmPower Solar, Renova Energy
Coating could lead to commercial lithium-metal batteries
and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California have developed a coating for lithium metal batteries which they say could
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, California, USA, battery, North America, Stanford University, SLAC, Lithium metal, Zhiao Yu, Yi Cui
First Solar backs carbon pricing for wholesale electrical power
a carbon prices discussion, stating that the New York, New Jersey, and also California grid operators "have actually all taken steps or made declarations supporting
Jun 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, First Solar, North America
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power acquires 123-MW solar project from First Solar
established at the business's research and development (R&D) facilities in California and also Ohio. The module establishes sector benchmarks for quality,
Jul 24, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, First Solar, Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, Eric Heintz, Greg Roer, Richard Romero
Is Mexican energy CFE getting in the solar business?
authorization request to construct its own solar projects in the state of Baja California-- the Cerro Prieto II as well as III projects. According to a record that was
Aug 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Mexico, North America, cfe, Manuel Bartlett
Enel, French PV institute improve heterojunction cell efficiency by 0.37%.
record of 24.63%, reached last February. The results, licensed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), remain in line with the techbroadmap
Aug 28, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, France, Enel, Europe, efficiency, heterojunction cell
DESRI begin in Louisiana, SunPower's ESG and also diversity push
agreement. SunPower hires 2 for ESG and also diversity push 5 October 2020: California-headquartered solar firm SunPower has actually developed two new management
Oct 6, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, Lightsource BP, North America, DESRI, Tom Werner, esg, diversity
EPR Realty Completes Solar Pilot Program with REACH Commercial 2020 Company
feet of roofing system space and parking area across 3 of BSP's Northern California workplace homes, situated in Petaluma, Santa Rosa, as well as Sacramento. The
Oct 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, sacramento, Borrego Solar, Basin Street Properties, Blake Riva, Chris Pawlik, EPR2, Santa Rosa,, Solar Pilot Program
China, Malaysia Explore Development of Virtual Power Plants
days consequently of discussions about a new VPP project to be set up in California by Pacific Gas and also Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla. Despite the
Jan 3, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, TESLA, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, VPP, Shanghai Energy Technology Development, State Power Investment Corporation Limited, State Power Rixin Tech
Canadian Solar Mulls Solar & Battery Storage Production Expansion in China
household energy storage option, at RE+ trade show in September in Anaheim,
Feb 1, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, China, Asia, solar cell, solar module, Shawn Qu, CSI Solar, solar wafer, N-type TOPCon, battery system, capital expenditures, Jiangsu Province
Study on Perovskite-CIGS Tandem Solar Cells Yields 24.9% Performance
Midsummer, by joining researchers at Prof. Yang Yang's lab of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have demonstrated a four-terminal perovskite-CIGS tandem
Mar 20, 2023 // Technology, midsummer, Yang Yang, UCLA, CIGS solar cells, midsummer DUO machine, perovskite research
Intersect Power Energizes Massive 640-MW Lumina Solar Park
2.2 gigawatts of solar capacity and 1.4 gigawatt hours of storage in Texas and California.The funds for the construction and operation of the project were obtained as
Jan 12, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Intersect Power, PV Power Plant
Timeline of the largest PV power stations
MWAC photovoltaic power station in San Luis Obispo County, California. 2015 Longyangxia Dam Solar Park China State Power Investment
Apr 29, 2020
Nextracker inks 1 GW supply bargain and claims approximately 12% bifacial yield gain
Californian testing organization PV Evolution Labs has collaborated with tracker manufacturer Nextracker on a white paper seeking to measure the solar power return gains used by bifacial panels mounted on single-axis trackers. PV Evolution president Jenya Meydbray has claimed: "Bifacial PV innovation stands for the single largest LCOE [levelized cost of power] renovation chance given that the introduction of trackers." That bifacial plus single-axis trackers amounts to yield gains is not doubtful but the industry has nevertheless had a hard time to turn that understanding right into bankable yield presumptions to day. Meydbray states that stumbling block has actually stood up bigger deployment of the combination. The CEO's assertion was borne out nearly right away, with magazine of the return gain study quickly complied with by Nextracker signing a manage engineering, procurement as well as building firm Shanghai Electric to offer more than 1 GW of its NX Horizon items for the fifth phase of the huge Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, in Dubai. Supply bargain The 5th stage of the ultimate 2.8 GW solar area, previously called a 900 MW piece of generation capacity, was reported yesterday as having a 1 GW scale, in a news release provided by Nextracker, which becomes part of electronics contract manufacturer Flex. The Nextracker declaration provided a completion day of 2023, which would mark finalization of the last phase of the immense project commissioned by the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority. The authority says it has plans to increase the area to 5 GW, by 2030. " We are significantly recognized to companion with Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group to aid supply the very best performance outcomes for the Dubai Electric & Water Authority," stated Nextracker CEO Dan Shugar. "Shanghai Electric is just one of the leading high-tech companies in China, with over one a century of producing legacy, as well as we are deeply privileged to be selected for our modern technology. We anticipate discovering numerous methods to team up and partner in the future." The white paper produced by Nextracker predicted return gains of 5-7% in reduced albedo (20%) problems, such as panels placed over yard, crushed rock or sand. The gains readily available would rise to 10-12% on a high albedo (50%) site, such as on snow or white fabric, according to the tracker business. The supplier evaluated two-in-portrait (2P) panel alignment, with upright panels either side of the torque tube, as well as 1P sets up-- with each upright panel above television-- and also claimed the latter provided an albedo-dependent gain of 0.6-1.2%. The paper's authors associated the difference primarily to a beneficial rear-side, ground sight aspect. "The ratio of the selection elevation over grade to the selection width, or wingspan, is considerably higher for the 1P tracker than for the 2 P tracker," the white paper checks out. The results from the Nextracker testbed in Fremont, California were compared to data from the websites made use of by PV Evolution Labs, in Davis, California, as well as by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colorado. The paper's writers specified Nextracker's testing approaches made sure the firm's results could be moderately compared with the other two websites, with variance throughout the places of 3% in high albedo problems and 1% in low albedo. "Insofar as consistency types confidence, the general agreements in between these field-measured bifacial gains-- under both low and high albedo problems, in addition to across numerous test centers as well as states-- is encouraging," specified the paper. Nextracker contrasted bifacial gains as DC-side power yield enhancements in mono and bifacial modules. The tracker supplier made a point of comparing equal bifacial as well as monofacial modules, inasmuch as they shared the very same producer and cell technology, style and also cell stringing. The Nextracker test website, that included modules from three producers, included five rows of 1P trackers and also 4 of 2P alignments, all of which were indoor rows, to exclude any kind of outer-row exaggeration of bifaciality returns. Bifaciality Modules were flash-tested on the front as well as rear sides to establish installed power rankings per installed ability and the actual bifaciality coefficient. The tools were additionally picked to achieve the most affordable string-level power mismatch to avoid losses. Nextracker stressed the numbers were constrained to its NX Horizon tracker, as the style of that product decreases structural shading losses and also rear-side inequality loss element, compared to various other systems. The supplier said the NX Horizon supplied a framework shading variable of 12.3%, compared to 20% with a rival item. The reported mismatch loss element was 3.5% for Nextracker, versus 8.8% for the undisclosed competitor product. The NX Horizon provides 1.02-1.67% greater DC-side bifacial gains than its competitors, according to Nextracker. The company modeled the test problems using PVsyst and located the software's predictions "reasonably good." During 3 months of high-albedo worths produced by white fabric, Nextracker determined a 12.5% bifacial gain, contrasted to the 11.2% forecasted by PVsyst. In the low-albedo setting, field dimensions recorded 5.9% gains-- more than the 5.5% prediction.
Sep 18, 2020 // Manufacturing News, California, USA, Asia, United Arab Emirates, North America, Nextracker, Dan Shugar
Solar Market Insight Report 2019 Q2
– its lowest quarter since Q1 2017 – as policy shifts in states like California, Massachusetts and Minnesota continue to hamper growth. There were 1.6
Sep 16, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, Research-SEIA, Market research