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WoodMac: Bifacial solar poised to surge ten-fold by 2024
Bifacial PV stands on the edge of a boom across the world’s four corners as cost improvements and geopolitics strengthen the case for the budding technology, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Sep 25, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Wood Mackenzie, China, pv power plants, bifacial, Asia, North America, Xiaojing Sun
Australia’s Horizon to replace overhead network with solar and batteries
A recent project milestone saw the disconnection of properties from overhead lines and will enable 64km of poles and wires to be replaced by off-grid solar-plus-battery solutions.
Oct 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Storage, Australia, Oceania, aemc, Horizon, Stephanie Unwin
BayWa r.e. adds to European floating solar momentum with double project completion
BayWa r.e. has taken two utility-scale floating solar projects to the finish line in the Netherlands, bringing a sizeable installed capacity boost to the segment in Europe.
Oct 28, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Germany, solar pv, floating PV, Europe, Huawei, Netherlands, baywa r.e., GCL-SI, zimmermann pv stahlbau, Benedikt Ortmann
Abdul Latif Jameel unit launches solar plants in Jordan
The four solar plants will supply more than 600 GWh per year in Jordan
Nov 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Jordan, Asia, Abdul Latif Jameel, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Omar Al Razzaz, Tristn Higuero, Raad Al Saady
Why Clean Energy's Corporate Patrons Are Purchasing Much Less This Year
Russia's battle in Ukraine, rising cost of living as well as skyrocketing power costs have cooled down procurement. There's one gigantic exception: Amazon.
Sep 8, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Ukraine, Amazon, Europe, Asia, Russia
International renewables investment reaches brand-new high in 2021 but rapid ramp-up demand
Worldwide investment in renewables rose to new heights in 2021 as solar and wind implementation rose, but overall energy transition expenditure requires to triple in the coming years to jump on track for web zero.
Jan 28, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, BNEF, China, Asia, BloombergNEF, net zero, Matthias Kimmel, Albert Cheung
Flexible all-perovskite tandem solar cells with a 24.7% effectiveness
Lightweight as well as flexible perovskites are very encouraging materials for the fabrication of photovoltaics. Thus far, nevertheless, their highest reported efficiencies have actually been around 20%, which is significantly lower than those of stiff perovskites (25.7%).
Jul 6, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Nanjing University, efficiency, Jilin University, Shanghai Tech University, East China Normal University
Chinese Solar Manufacturer Says United States May Be Too Expensive for Expansion
GCL Technology considering European, BRICS nations for areas
Polysilicon prices have actually dropped after hitting a decade high
Apr 10, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, gcl technology
Researchers examining solar try resolving a dusty problem
The layer of dust and also pollen that settles on the windshield of your vehicle is easily gotten rid of with a turn of the bar that activates wipers and also water. Removing that layer from a solar panel-- especially one inconveniently situated from any source of dampness-- calls for significantly even more work.
Apr 5, 2021 // Technology, NREL, PV panel, Michael Deceglie, Matthew Muller, Toth, a Ph.D.
San Jose Clean Energy, EDP Renewables sign large solar-plus-storage PPA
San Jose Clean Energy (SJCE) and EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America, signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for 100 megawatts of new solar energy and 10 MW of battery storage at the Sonrisa Solar Park in Fresno County, California. The project is anticipated to be operational in 2022.
Aug 9, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, California, USA, storage, CCA, San Jose Clean Energy, EDP Renewables SA, EDP Renewables, Mayor Sam Liccardo, East Bay Community Energy
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
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














