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Solar Sector Establishes Records in 2020, On Course to Quadruple by 2030
The UNITED STATE solar industry expanded 43% and also set up a record 19.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of ability in 2020, according to the UNITED STATE Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar power Industries Association (SEIA) as well as Wood Mackenzie.
Mar 23, 2021 // Market Research, USA, SEIA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Michelle Davis
China vs United States: The New Battle for Energy Superiority
At his initial press conference since taking office, United States President Joe Biden had actually claimed in March that he would certainly outspend China on technology and also facilities to make sure that the latter's desire for superseding the United States to become the most powerful as well as wealthiest country would certainly not pertain to fulfillment, a minimum of not on "his watch."
Apr 13, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, China, Asia, PV module, North America, Joe Biden
SEIA unveils social justice platform
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has actually revealed a brand-new ecological and social justice platform to enhance access to work within the renewables sector, as well as to low-priced clean energy throughout the United States.
Apr 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, SEIA, Abigail Ross Hopper, diversity, environmental justice, social justice, the solar energy industries association
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
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
Maxeon Q2 dogged by supply chain volatility as well as manufacturing facility closures
Maxeon Solar Technologies has said it may encounter producing disruptions if it is unable to mitigate the effects of resources as well as component cost increases from its vendors.
Aug 14, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Maxeon, covid-19, Jeff Waters
ITC extension, domestic production support included in US Democrats' Build Back Much better framework
US clean power and environment adjustment actions would receive US$ 555 billion of financial investments under a suggested economic framework unveiled by President Joe Biden yesterday (28 October).
Nov 1, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, ENERGY STORAGE, ITC, North America, investment tax credit, legislation, biden administration, nancy pelosi, budget reconciliation, infrastructure bill
Biden's Build Back Better strategy passes House as Senate fight looms
The United States House of Representatives has actually passed Joe Biden's Build Back Better act, which now transfers to the Us senate, where negotiations will proceed over the legislation that consists of clean power and also environment investments amounting to US$ 555 billion.
Nov 22, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Storage, Policy, USA, SEIA, ITC, North America, Joe Biden, investment tax credit, ACORE, SEMA
Biden indications executive order to make US federal government carbon neutral by 2050
United States Head Of State Joe Biden has signed an exec order that requires the United States federal government 'lead by example' and leverage its buying power to accomplish carbon neutrality by 2050.
Dec 13, 2021 // Policy, USA, solar-plus-storage, North America, biden
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
Origami's steel solar panel frame surpasses aluminium in independent screening
A solar PV module frame made from recycled roll-formed steel has outperformed conventional aluminium frames in screening by an independent third party.
Aug 10, 2022 // Manufacturing News, testing, aluminium, testing labs, module frame, origami solar, steel frame
Mortenson contracts with GPS-enabled pile driver to redirect workforce to various other tasks
The solar division at Mortenson has actually introduced a collaboration with Orteco, an Italian-based OEM, to create robotic equipment to advance the building and construction of solar power installations. The new GPS-enabled pile circulation system can run autonomously to exactly position piles across utility-scale solar sites during building.
Sep 20, 2022 // Technology, Mortenson, Trent Mostaert, Orteco, Eric Grenz