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Two sponsors of one of Spain’s iconic subsidy-free plants have sealed a deal to deploy a smaller successor in the same area, planned again without support from government money.

A consortium of European research institutes has received €10.6 million in EU funding to establish pilot production of a high efficiency module concept developed by Swiss startup Insolight. The module combines high efficiency multijunction cells with a solar concentrator lens and has previously demonstrated 29% efficiency.

A new generation of low-cost, lasting and effective solar cells is a step better, thanks to scientists at The University of Queensland.

At the recently held SolarPACES Conference, NamPower generation projects head Grant Muller set out the nationwide power firm's now finalized prepare for a CSP project in Namibia, for in between 50 MW as well as 130 MW, with storage space. After 4 years of prep work, the nation awaits its first CSP auction in 2022.

'Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member Trina Solar is intending its initial major solar cell manufacturing expansion over the last few years, driven by its movement to large-area PV modules making use of the 210mm wafer dimension as it ramps manufacturing of its high-performance mainstream 'Vertex' Series modules in 2021 onwards.

Today's version of the Official Journal of the French Republic included 2 long-awaited mandates: One worrying the multi-year power program as well as one more on nationwide carbon budget plans and also the state's low-carbon approach.

British supplier Oxis Energy has actually introduced strategies to aid Brazil to an all-electric bus fleet by 2045.

Charlotte, North Carolina is the initial district to carry out an eco-friendly power contract under utility Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage (GSA) program, more increasing solar power in the state.

CS Energy has actually revealed that it has actually effectively finished the building and construction deal with the biggest solar plant in New Jersey.

Germany must embrace renewables and energy storage at an unprecedented scale if it hopes to offset the void left behind by coal and nuclear phase-outs, a new study has said.

A handful of European states have moved to bankroll various World Bank clean energy initiatives, with US$100 million of French and Dutch money set to back PV in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Chinese solar manufacturer today admitted it is in talks with its lenders and strategic investors about a break up of the company after its 2018 annual accounts revealed an apparently unserviceable debt pile. Any strategic investor is likely to constitute a Chinese state-backed bail-out.

Trina Solar has reviewed four to five projects and is now eyeing assets of 50-150MW size in two Indian states. The projects will be completed with Trina modules and the Chinese firm will also provide competitive long-term project financing to the developer

Scientists in Saudi Arabia have actually reported the "the very first" successful damp-heat examination of perovskite solar cells, which they claim has relocated the technology closer in the direction of industrial viability after it held up against 1,000 hours of extreme conditions as well as kept a 95% effectiveness.

Portugal's very first floating solar auction closed with a world record-low price, with utilities EDP and also Endesa among the winning bidders, the nation's environment ministry has actually announced.