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Self-cleaning PV system with active cooling technology
An international research study group has actually created a self-cooling PV system including a 250 W 60-cell polycrystalline component and a thermal enthusiast attached to the back side of the panel. The cleaning technology is based upon a microcontroller programmable integrated circuit, which manages a rotating DC electric motor.
Jun 23, 2020 // Technology, Residential, Malaysia, India, China, Asia, PV system, self-cooling
Respect Energy Finalizes 57 MW Solar Power Agreement
Respect Energy inks a decade-long PPA for 63 GWh of green electricity, powering its growth through solar parks and sustainable partnerships in Poland’s vibrant energy landscape.
Oct 28, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Respect Energy
Seychelles to host 5.8 MW of floating PV
French developer Qair will certainly begin constructing a 5.8 MW floating solar array later on this year on a shallows on the East African country's major island. It declares the setup will certainly be the globe's biggest floating PV project to be improved deep sea upon conclusion.
Apr 2, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, France, floating PV, Europe, Africa, Seychelles, Qair
Hive Energy acquires 50% stake in Ethical Power Group
Collaboration is expected to assist in 2GW of solar projects
Nov 25, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, hive energy, Giles Redpath, England
Globe currently has 583.5 GW of functional PV
Worldwide grid-connected solar ability got to 580.1 GW at the end of 2019, together with 3.4 GW of offgrid PV, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Overall mounted renewables ability struck an exceptional 2,563.8 GW, with hydropower continuing to be the leading resource at 1,310.9 GW, complied with by wind at 622.7 GW.
Apr 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, IRENA, WORLD
Google to produce simpler eco-friendly power acquisition pathways
The tech giant has removed its entire carbon legacy and also is moving toward running totally on renewables, 24/7. More notably, it's aiming to develop paths for other sustainable buyers to follow in its wake.
Sep 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Google, Jason Tundermann
Machine-learning for PV module cleaning
French researchers have actually established a machine-learning model to clean low-power PV projects and also standalone solar arrays in backwoods separated from the grid.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, France, Europe, PV module cleaning
Solar film with incorporated optics to raise performance of PV panels
Finnish firm ICS has actually developed a foil which it asserts can dramatically increase the return of photovoltaic panels, when put on the edges of a PV module. Germany's Fraunhofer ISE has actually validated that the increase in efficiency for conventional solar components with the solar movie is ranging from 5% to 10%.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, Finland, ICS, Kari Rinko
Enel plants to power Anglo American’s full renewable switch in Chile
A mining giant has turned to Enel to power its transition to a fully renewable energy supply in Chile, signing a deal set to kick in two years’ time.
Jul 30, 2019 // Plants, PV Tech, Enel, Los Bronces, Collahuasi, El Soldado
Wells Fargo will power its 400 Texas locations with solar
Wells Fargo has signed a 10-year structured power purchase agreement (PPA) with Reliant, an NRG Energy, to power the bank’s 400 Texas locations with PV solar.
Oct 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, Wells Fargo, NRG Energy, Richard Henderson, Robert Gaudette
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power acquires 123-MW solar project from First Solar
First Solar announced that Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, a personal business handled by the Renewable Power Group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), got the 123-MWAC American Kings Solar project in a transaction that shut at the end of June 2020. Found in Kings County, California, the project is backed by a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Southern California Edison as well as is set up to be commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Jul 24, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, First Solar, Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, Eric Heintz, Greg Roer, Richard Romero
Nordic Solar Launches 11-MW Battery for German PV
Nordic Solar’s first co-located 11-MW BESS in Lower Saxony pairs batteries with solar to boost grid flexibility, maximize renewables, and deliver balancing services—part of rapid Europe-wide solar+storage growth.
May 28, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Germany, Solar, Battery Storage, Europe, BESS, Nordic Solar
Orsted indications Texas PV offtake with Merck
200MW Armadillo Solar Center in Navarro County is anticipated to be functional in early 2023
Apr 27, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Orsted, Vishal Kapadia, Merck, Susanna Webber
Jetion's Thailand PV manufacturing facility 'not influenced' up until now by COVID-19
Chinese solar maker Jetion Solar asserts to have actually handled to maintain its cell and also module assembly line in Thailand secure up until now from any kind of disturbance from the COVID-19 emergency situation.
Mar 19, 2020 // Manufacturing News, solar pv, Thailand, Asia, PV module, PV cells, jetion, Coronavirus, covid-19
PV against cancer
Research from the United States has demonstrated how PV technology can be used to kill cancer cells. Although still at an embryonic stage, the findings of the study and initial test results suggest solar power could be an effective tool in relation to light-activated fluorescent dyes for disease diagnosis, image-guided surgery and site-specific tumor treatment.
Oct 28, 2019 // Technology, PV technology, cancer, Michigan State University, solar glass