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Canada extends trade measures against Chinese metal silicon
With the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed in November 2013 set to expire nine months ago, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal has extended them for another five years, ruling their expiry would harm the nation’s only domestic manufacturer.
Aug 27, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Canada, China, polysilicon, Asia, North America, metal silicon, Quebec Silicon Limited Partnership, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, QSIP Canada ULC, Wacker Chemie AG, Pedro Larrea
‘Energy storage is not enough, a renewables grid needs flexible gas back-up’
The managing director of London-based energy infrastructure company Statera has told pv magazine a clean energy grid in the U.K. will require as much flexible gas plant capacity as battery storage.
Sep 1, 2019 // Plants, Storage, Grids, storage, UK, Europe, flexible gas plant, Statera, Tom Vernon
Upstream ROUND-UP: Q CELLS toasts 1.7GW plant; Sungrow debuts line; Risen & Arctech milestones.
Hanwha Q CELLS has celebrated the grand opening of what it bills as the “largest” solar panel factory in the western hemisphere, a US$200 million facility in Dalton, Georgia, meant to supply 1.7GW to the US market every year.
Sep 23, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Sungrow, India, Ukraine, Europe, Asia, Risen Energy, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, kazakhstan, downstream, arctech solar, Brian Kemp
Massachusetts takes SMART program to 3.6 GW, includes power storage space regulation
The United States state of Massachusetts has actually released an emergency situation law to its Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program, that consists of increasing the PV capability it looks for to aid release along with mandating the enhancement of power storage space on projects over 500kW.
Apr 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Massachusetts, SMART, policy and regulation, solar-plus-storage, North America, co-location, covid-19, government incentives, support schemes, renewable portfolio standards
Repositioning Australian roof PV
A University of South Australia research study has shown that solar owners offering electrical energy to the grid ought to position their panels to lessen the inconsistency in between peak usage and height production.
Sep 2, 2020 // Commercial, Residential, Grids, Rooftop PV, Australia, rooftop PV, Oceania, Kirrilie Rowe, OpenSolar, Andrew Birch
Sunfolding seeks to disrupt the tracker sector with air pneumatics
With $32 million in collection B financing as well as an ever-growing project pipe, air-based tracker start-up, Sunfolding, is hoping to raise its keep in the tracker market with tech that's straightforward, light as well as can be set up on terrain previously believed untouchable.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, USA, North America, startup, Sunfolding, Gwen Rose
Renewable Energy Investment Hits Record-Breaking $358 Billion in 1H 2023
Global new investment in renewable energy skyrocketed to $358 billion in the first six months of 2023, a 22% rise compared to the start of last year and an all-time high for any six-month period. This is based on the latest investment data from BloombergNEF’s 2H 2023 Renewable Energy Investment Tracker report, published on August 21, 2023.
Aug 22, 2023 // Market Research, USA, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, North America
Terawatt scale by 2022
The solar field is no stranger to breaking records. Probably the most remarkable figure to emerge from SolarPower Europe's new 'Global Market Outlook' is that the global solar sector will reach terawatt scale by 2022-- just four years after the 500 GW milestone was reached. Michael Schmela from SolarPower Europe sets out the reasoning behind this and also various other key searchings for in the record.
Jul 23, 2020 // Opinions, WORLD, covid-19, Terawatt, Michael Schmela
Report: the commercial opportunity for off-grid solar power in Africa is $24 billion per year
On a continent where 600 million people have no access to electricity, “The combination of solar and fintech is driving an economic transformation.”
Jan 22, 2020 // Commercial, Rooftop PV, Market Research, Africa, PEG Africa, Nigeria, shell, Kleos Advisor, PayGo
Auction winner: Interconnection constraints limiting big solar in Japan
Rising interconnection costs and constraints are impacting Japan’s ability to contract large-scale solar capacity, according to a project winner in the country’s latest PV auction.
Jan 29, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, FiT, utilities, Asia, auction, interconnection, METI, curtailment, energy transition, Constant Energy, ciel & terre international, franck constant, Eva Pauly
Sunrun Wins Another Capacity Contract for Aggregated Home Storage
The deal opens a new market for residential storage: California’s rapidly expanding community-based electricity buyers.
Jul 18, 2019 // Residential, Storage, Alameda County, Northern California, Sunrun, EBCE CEO, Nick Chaset, CCA, EBCE, CalCCA, BrightBox, Vistra
Designers show next-generation solar cells can take the heat, keep effectiveness
Perovskites with their crystal frameworks as well as encouraging electro-optical homes could be the energetic component that makes the future generation of low-cost, effective, flexible as well as light-weight solar cells.
May 5, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, perovskites, Iowa, Vikram Dalal, Harshavardhan Gaonkar
Agricultural PV becomes Japan's following possibility
Self-consumption, the capacity to isolate from the grid as well as supply power in case of blackouts, and also farming solar are crucial parts in the 2020 revisions to Japan's feed-in toll program, reports RTS Corp.'s Izumi Kaizuka.
Jun 2, 2020 // Opinions, Japan, Asia, Izumi Kaizuka
Solar Controller Market Research Report 2020 Anhui Jing Neng Environment-friendly Energy, Beijiing Epsolar Modern Technology, Beijing Shoushanxinda Technology, Exmork, Gaia
Worldwide Coronavirus pandemic has affected all markets around the world, Solar Controller market being no exception. As Global economic situation heads towards major economic crisis post 2009 situation, Cognitive Market Research has released a recent study which thoroughly studies effect of this situation on Global Solar Controller market and also recommends possible measures to curtail them. This news release is a photo of research study and also further information can be collected by accessing full report.
Jun 17, 2020 // Market Research, covid-19, STECA, Anhui Jing Neng Green Energy, Beijiing Epsolar Technology, Beijing Shoushanxinda Technology, Exmork, Gaia, Genasun, JD Auspice, Leonics, Midnite, Morning Star, MPP Solar, Nova, Outback Power, Phocos, Power Master, Solex, SRNE Solar, Studer Innotec, Sunway Power, Suzhou Cosuper Energy, Victron Energy
Hydrogen economy requires public laws
According to the 2020 Global Gas Report by Snam, the International Gas Union and also BloombergNEF, public policies are required to sustain clean hydrogen reach commercial clusters and to facilitate large-scale use. The authors of the report recognized the benefits of using wind and solar to directly power electrolysis, but they do not dispose of the opportunity of using gas power with carbon capture storage space. The professionals of the three celebrations also identified barriers to get rid of for future development.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, Storage, Policy, Solar to Fuel, hydrogen, BloombergNEF, Snam, 2020 Global Gas Report