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First Solar Launches 3.5-GW Factory in Alabama
First Solar's new 3.5-GW factory in Alabama boosts U.S. solar manufacturing, creating 800 jobs and advancing its commitment to American-made energy solutions. Bright days ahead!
Sep 27, 2024 // Manufacturing News, USA, Alabama, First Solar, North America
Boviet Solar Launches 2-GW U.S. Factory This Year
Boviet Solar is set to illuminate Greenville, NC with a groundbreaking 2-GW photovoltaic module factory, marking a significant leap in solar manufacturing and green investment.
Jan 17, 2025 // Manufacturing News, USA, North America, Boviet Solar
Invenergy Secures $1.1 Billion for Solar Projects
Invenergy secures $1.1 billion for three solar parks, advancing 590 MW of clean energy and reaffirming its commitment to a sustainable future. Solar power's growing momentum is unstoppable!
Jan 30, 2025 // Plants, Invenergy, PV Power Plant
Advanced macro grid effort introduced in United States
Costs Gates and Breakthrough Energy see boosted transmission as promoting electrification as well as grid integrity. Raising transmission advancement at the "joint" between regions can save customers more than $47 billion as well as return greater than $2.50 on every buck spent.
Jun 17, 2020 // Grids, USA, North America, Bill Gates, Breakthrough Energy, Gina McCarthy
Researchers create molecule to store solar energy
Researchers at Linkoping University, Sweden, have created a molecule that takes in power from sunshine as well as shops it in chemical bonds. A feasible long-lasting use of the molecule is to catch solar power efficiently and save it for later on consumption. The current outcomes have actually been released in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, JACS.
Sep 2, 2020 // Technology, Sweden, Europe, Bo Durbeej
Penn State's 70-MW solar project portfolio is now creating power and sustaining sheep grazing
Penn State University has actually begun buying sustainable power produced from 3 Lightsource bp solar farms that have actually finished building and construction in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The projects were launched in 2019 upon the finalizing of a 70-MW PPA under which Penn State would certainly purchase 100% of the electricity created by the projects created and also operated by Lightsource bp.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Lightsource BP, Pennsylvania, North America, penn state university, Kevin Smith, Solar Project, David Gray, Eric Barron, Emilie Wangerman
United States allocates US$ 125.5 countless government money for solar R&D
The United States Department of Energy (DoE) revealed on Wednesday a US$ 125.5 million bundle for a variety of innovative solar R&D initiatives.
Feb 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, solar pv, pv modules, solar cell, North America, microgrid, department of energy, eere, csp, artifical intelligence
Globe's leading utility-scale solar project developers Europe increases once again
The introduction of unsubsidised projects is assisting European business to increase back up the checklist of the globe's leading utility-scale solar project developers.
Apr 24, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Market Research, USA, Scatec Solar, Canadian Solar, China, Engie, First Solar, Cypress Creek Renewables, Europe, JinkoSolar, Asia, neoen, enel green power, GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, Trina Solar, SunEdison, North America, x-elio, 8minutenergy, ACWA Power, shell, NextEra Energy, Adani, tata power, Azure Power, Enerparc, Sempra Energy, AES Corporation, Shunfeng, sunpower corporation, State Power Investment Corporation, ACME Solar, juwi AG, China Three Gorges New Energy, EDF Energies Nouvelles, Abengoa Solar, Softbank, Hareon Solar, Greenko Energy Holdings, China Singyes
Honda & Nike Secure New Renewable Energy Supplies
Honda has just inked two virtual power plant agreements that will cover more than 60% of its electricity usage in North America.
Sep 27, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Europe, Africa, North America, honda, Oklahoma, Nike, Eric Sprunk
The largest private coal company in the United States just went bankrupt
Despite promises by President Trump to save the coal industry, the crisis in the sector is clear. Solar, wind and batteries have the world to gain.
Oct 31, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Trump, North America, Rick Perry, Bob Murray, Murray Energy, bankruptcy, Louisiana
Home Solar Demand Surges Through the Roof in 2020
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.
Nov 18, 2020 // Residential, Market Research, USA, Germany, Australia, Europe, Oceania, North America
Novasource merges with SunSystem, Primergy begin on Gemini PV-storage project
A round-up of the latest news from the US solar market, including updates from NovaSource, SEIA, Borrego and also Primergy.
Jan 26, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, SEIA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar-plus-storage, mergers and acquisitions, Abigail Ross Hopper, novasourcepower, executive appointments, usaa, borrego, primergy solar, sunsystem technology, Jack Bennett, Mike Hall
Form Energy Reveals Chemistry of its Long Duration Iron-air Battery
Form Energy is presently working on creating a brand-new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage space systems to combat climate modification.
ArcelorMittal has actually spent again in Form Energy's lately released XCarb ™ development fund, acting as lead investor in the last; s $200 million Series D funding round, with a $25 million equity injection.
Jul 23, 2021 // Storage, Form Energy, Mateo Jaramillo, Greg Ludkovsky, iron-air battery, X-carb innovation fund
Scientist Make Instance for Gallium-doped p-type Heterojunction Solar Cells
Australian-Russian Research team has actually created Gallium-doped p-type SHJ solar cell wafers.
They are 22.6% efficient with better stability and also cheaper costs.
Jul 26, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, solar cells, heterojunction, Oceania, Hevel Solar, n-type solar wafers, p-type gallium-doped wafers, Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, University of New South Wales
First Solar Register For Make in India With 3.3 GW Production center in India
To be set up in Tamil Nadu, the new center will entail an investment of $684 million as well as create 1000 jobs.
If the task undergoes, it will be among the largest success tales of the government's efforts to attract international producers to India.
Jul 30, 2021 // Manufacturing News, India, First Solar, Mark Widmar, Asia