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First Solar's new 3.5-GW solar panel manufacturing facility will establish in northern Alabama
First Solar has actually chosen northern Alabama as the area for its 4th U.S. solar module manufacturing facility. The new thin-film manufacturing facility is part of the previously announced financial investment that will certainly grow First Solar's American manufacturing footprint to over 10 GW by 2025.
Nov 17, 2022 // Manufacturing News, USA, First Solar, North America
Equinix inks PPAs to back 225 MW of new solar in Spain
US data centre company Equinix Inc (NASDAQ: EQIX) stated that it has actually signed five power purchase agreements (PPAs) to obtain 225 MW of solar energy and support new construct in Spain.
Mar 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Europe, Equinix
Transparent graphene electrodes may result in brand-new generation of solar cells
A brand-new method of making huge sheets of top quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, adaptable solar cells, and to new courses of light-emitting devices as well as various other thin-film electronic devices.
Jun 10, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, MIT, Graphene, Giovanni Azzellino, Mahdi Tavakoli
EDF Renewables granted development contract for 303 MW of New york city solar
New York City State Research Energy and Development Authority (NYSERDA) granted EDF Renewables long-lasting contracts to develop 303 MW of tidy energy for the state. The photovoltaic or pv projects are part of the 2020 Reneewable Energy Standard Solicitation program.
May 6, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, NYSERDA, North America, EDF Renewables, solar projects, Cory Basil
EIB’s new climate fight era takes it to 218MW Spanish PV pipeline
Yet another solar pipeline is in the works in Spain, with hundreds of megawatts slated for deployment with backing from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Dec 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, eib, PV pipeline, Valdis Dombrovskis
DOE establishes new community solar target, requires 700% growth in 4 years
United States Department of Energy (DOE) secretary Jennifer Granholm has revealed a brand-new National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) target to have community solar projects supply 26GW of power and also develop US$ 1 billion in bill cost savings by 2025.
Oct 12, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, doe, solar targets, Jeff Cramer, Jennifer Granholm, Kiran Bhatraju
Xinte Energy plots share problem to pay for brand-new polysilicon facility
Xinte Energy has actually introduced plans to offer virtually 180 million shares in the business to elevate funds for a brand-new 100,000 heap polysilicon manufacturing facility.
Jun 15, 2021 // Manufacturing News, xinte energy, polysilicon, TBEA, jinglong technology
Austria mulls mandatory PV as new rebates for solar and storage launched
With the region of Styria considering making PV mandatory on all new buildings, the nation’s Climate Fund will support PV and storage projects in agriculture and forestry. Applications can be submitted by November 2020 – or until the pot is empty.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Residential, Storage, Rooftop PV, storage, Europe, Austria, Styria
8minute takes United States pipe to 18GW, flaunts brand-new financial investment
8minute Solar Energy has actually bolted an additional 3GW of massive solar projects onto its pipe, taking the developer's tally to greater than 18GW.
Apr 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, California, USA, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, North America, large-scale solar, 8minute Solar Energy, Tom Buttgenbach
Automated chemistry collections new pace for materials discovery
Scientists at the Division of Energy's Oak Ridge National Research Laboratory as well as the University of Tennessee are automating the search for brand-new materials to advance solar energy technologies.
Mar 10, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, Mahshid Ahmadi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Sergei Kalinin, Maxim Ziatdinov
New Tandem Solar Cell Hits 31.2% Efficiency Milestone
Revolutionizing solar energy, a new perovskite-silicon tandem cell achieves 31.2% efficiency, paving the way for scalable, robust, and innovative renewable energy solutions.
Oct 28, 2024 // Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, solar cell, efficiency, KAUST
The golden state to include 25GW of renewables by 2030 under brand-new roadmap
The golden state's eco-friendly power fleet is to go through a deep-reaching improvement in the area of a years under brand-new targets, embraced by the United States state's regulatory authority simply today.
Mar 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, CPUC, BESS, North America, Coronavirus, covid-19
Pivot Energy and Standard Solar Establish 3 New Neighborhood Solar Projects in Colorado
National solar carriers continue partnership to breakthrough Colorado's clean energy shift, provide fair access to budget-friendly renewable energy
May 12, 2021 // Plants, USA, Colorado, North America, Standard Solar, pivot energy, Renewable Energy, solar projects, Partnership, clean energy transition, Katharine Rushton
Maxeon's New Silicon-based Solar Panels Emerging This Summer
Headquartered in Singapore, solar supplier Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it will release a brand-new line of frameless, thin, lightweight, glass-less, and also adaptable silicon-based solar panels this summer called Maxeon Air. The panels will certainly be offered in pick European markets in the second half of 2021, before a basic worldwide release in the initial quarter of 2022.
May 19, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Jeff Waters, maxeon solar technologies ltd, Maxeon Air solar panels, Maxeon IBC solar cells
Brand-new globe record for large-area organic PV module efficiency
Scientists in Germany have attained 12.6% performance with a 26 sq cm organic panel as well as 11.7% for a 204 sq cm device. The tasks were accomplished with a new module format and a slower, high-resolution, short-pulse laser structuring process.
Sep 17, 2020 // Technology, Germany, Europe, PV module, efficiency, Andreas Distler