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Solar kept a relatively low profile in the latest quarterly results published by Japanese conglomerates Panasonic and Kyocera. With Osaka-based

Chint Solar Nederland has actually announced the completion of 3 solar parks in Drenthe and Groningen. Spread over the 2 districts, 152 MW of photovoltaic panels have actually been set up. "Zonnepark Stadskanaal" has an ability of 101 MW, "Zonnepark Buinerveen" of 45 MW and also "Zonnepark Ommelanderwijk" of 5.7 MW. The solar parks were attached to the grid of operators Enexis and also Tennet.

Around the globe, the residential solar market is solid. Lockdown constraints have actually provided customers extra factor to pay attention to their power expenses, and even more time to pursue house improvements like solar.

Target and Walmart are trying to out-green each other in proving to customers they are environmentally responsible businesses.

The variety of 100 MW-plus solar projects is swiftly raising in the U.S. And if there's one solar sector that can weather a pandemic, it's utility-scale photovoltaics.

All over the world, the property solar sector is solid. Lockdown limitations have offered customers extra reason to take notice of their power costs, and more time to pursue residence enhancements like solar.

Vikram is launching three new types of PV panels to the United States’ market. The new products are scheduled to become available at the beginning of the next year. These will be glass-on-glass and framed , as well as half-cell standard mono passivated emitter and rear cells. The peak capacity of the panels ranges from 375W up to 425W.

In 2016 France turned a one-kilometer stretch of roadway into the world’s first solar road. And three years later, the trial project has turned out to be an absolute disaster, French newspaper Le Monde reports.

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Cincinnati is going to build the biggest municipal solar field in the country to supply renewable electricity to all the facilities throughout the city and serve the population via the Electric Aggregation Program. When put into operation, the solar plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts is expected to decrease the annual CO2 emission of the region by 158 thousand tons.

Researchers in the United States have actually established a carbon nanotube approach of producing a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode. The gadget apparently showed far better than 87% capability retention after 1,500 cycles. The designers claim their exploration gets over a number of the challenges to using silicon as an anode as well as might open making use of various other products for electrodes in lithium-ion gadgets

The insolvent photovoltaic manufacturer is still talking to potential investment partners, but it claims that it could resume PV module production at its shuttered factory in the Dutch municipality of Zaanstad on short notice.

Over the last decade, DuPont has surveyed more than 2 GW of PV installations and has analyzed a range of failure types and their causes. Hong-Jie Hu, DuPont’s solar technical and development lead in China, says that the materials giant is looking for Australian partners for its Global Field Survey program, with a particular interest in hot and humid and desert environments.

German solar as well as wind ranch operator Encavis AG (ETR: ECV) has agreed to acquire 5 solar parks in the Netherlands with an overall ability of 74 MWp from Norwegian renewables firm Statkraft A/S to increase its generation ability in the country to 180 MWp.

On the first day of this year’s EU PVSEC conference, veteran solar researcher Pierre J Verlinden won the Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics. The award recognized more than 40 years as a leading PV researcher in academia and at leading companies including Sunpower and Trina Solar. Its recipient spoke to pv magazine about what is needed from solar to stave off catastrophic climate change.