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US solar to represent bulk of new generation capacity
FERC forecasts utility scale PV additions to virtually reach 73,000 MW between December 2022 and November 2025
Jan 19, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, FERC, North America
Shell-backed Silicon Ranch closes funding to sustain more than 1GW of brand-new solar
United States independent power producer Silicon Ranch Corporation has actually shut an investment round that brought in US$ 225 million in new equity capital.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America, shell, Silicon Ranch, capital raise, Reagan Farr, Elisabeth Brinton
The slow, inexorable rise of green hydrogen
The International Renewable Energy Association says the integration of hydrogen into the energy transition will not happen overnight and electrolysis costs will not be halved until the 2040s. That hydrogen and related products could revolutionize the world energy landscape, however, is not in doubt.
Sep 27, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Storage, Solar to Fuel, USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, UK, China, Australia, Europe, Asia, IRENA, hydrogen, Oceania, North America, Austria, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
US' BLM soliciting for utility-scale solar projects on 90,000 acres of state land
The United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is soliciting rate of interest for utility-scale solar projects on almost 90,000 acres of public land situated throughout Colorado, Nevada and also New Mexico, making up the firm's largest solar rate of interest given that 2012.
Dec 22, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, Colorado, Nevada, North America, New Mexico, doi, bureau of land managament
Researchers improve efficiency of low-cost solar cells
With worldwide energy-related co2 discharges getting to an all-time high in 2021, the demand for clean power is more important than ever. One such alternative to nonrenewable fuel sources is solar power.
Sep 28, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, efficiency, Chao Chen, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, WNLO
Stability of perovskite solar cells reaches next milestone
Perovskite semiconductors promise highly efficient and affordable solar cells. Nonetheless, the semi-organic product is very sensitive to temperature differences, which can swiftly cause fatigue damages in typical outdoor usage. Adding a dipolar polymer compound to the precursor perovskite solution assists to neutralize this.
Jan 30, 2023 // Technology, efficiency, HZB, perovskite solar cell, Antonio Abate
Extremely reliable grid-scale power storage at 5th of cost
Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in cooperation with Imperial College London, have located a means to boost crossbreed flow batteries as well as their commercial use. The brand-new strategy can save power in these batteries for long periods for concerning a 5th the rate of present innovations, with very little place restraints and also absolutely no discharges.
Jan 25, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, UK, Europe, University of Warwick, redox flow battery, Barun Chakrabarti
TransAlta Announces Commercial Operation of Alberta's First Utility Scale Battery Storage Project
TransAlta Renewables has introduced that its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage space project (WindCharger) started industrial procedure on October 15, 2020. WindCharger is Alberta's very first utility-scale, lithium-ion energy storage space project and makes use of Tesla Megapack technology.
Oct 16, 2020 // Storage, Canada, ENERGY STORAGE, North America, battery storage projects, Storage Project, TransAlta Renewables, WindCharger, John Kousinioris
African leaders employ renewables to construct future of power durability
Worldwide sustainable specialists will certainly guide the roll-out of huge quantities of solar as well as others in Africa, in a quote to aid the continent take advantage of its large environment-friendly power sources to power its feedback to COVID-19.
Apr 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, pv power plants, solar pv, IRENA, solar-plus-storage, Africa, mini-grids, Coronavirus, Decentralised Solar, covid-19, african union, Senegal
German coal mines could host 3 GW of floating PV
Research study institute the Fraunhofer ISE has actually approximated the technical capacity of drifting PV at mining sites in Germany at around 56 GW. With floating jobs 10-15% more pricey than land-based options, scientists have actually required further incentives, such as the staging of 'development tenders'.
Feb 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Germany, floating PV, Europe, ISE
First Solar devices vendor LPKF Laser keeping manufacturing in spite of COVID-19 situation
Germany-based LPKF Laser & Electronics AG has actually informed PV Tech that its factory in Germany have the ability to run at regular capability degrees, in spite of the ongoing effect of COVID-19.
Mar 25, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, first solar inc, cdte thin-film modules, Coronavirus, covid-19, lpkf, laser scribing
Business currently behind Solar4America brand takes control of former Sunergy module plant in California
SPI Energy, the international energy company that acquired a listing of contracts from bankrupt California solar installer PetersenDean, revealed it has gotten the lease for the former Sunergy photovoltaic panel manufacturing plant in Sacramento, California, and also anticipates to produce modules for the united state market by Q1 2022.
Dec 8, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, SPI Energy, Solar4America, module plant
AES added 2GW of renewables in 2021, means to exit coal by 2025
Global power business AES included more than 2GW of renewables as well as power storage to its portfolio last year as the business officially confirmed its intent to exit coal generation by 2025.
Feb 28, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, PPAs, PPA, financial results, North America, AES, AES Corporation, Fluence, coal exit
JSW Energy To Purchase Renewable Portfolio Of London Based Mytrah Energy
JSW Energy To Purchase Renewable Portfolio Of London Based Mytrah Energy
Aug 17, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Wind Energy, wind power, Mytrah Energy, Prashant Jain
Enphase Q2 micro-inverter income drops in spite of need 'rebound'.
Coming off a solid, rewarding very first quarter, Enphase sees the second-quarter results of Covid-19 in pressed profits and a swing to a loss. Gross margins continue to be solid.
Aug 5, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Inverters, USA, North America, Enphase