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Sonnedix Adds 60.9MW Solar, Charging Batteries
Sonnedix launches two co-located solar-plus-storage projects in Italy and Portugal totaling 60.9 MW, boosting evening output, cutting curtailment, and unlocking grid-service revenue with scalable performance data.
May 25, 2026 // Plants, Portugal, Italy, Sonnedix, Europe
Duke Energy Completes 74.9-MW Florida Solar Project
Duke Energy Florida completes the 74.9‑MW Jumper Creek solar complex in Sumter County—boosting Florida’s utility-scale solar pipeline and supporting 900 MW of new solar by 2028.
May 28, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Duke Energy, Florida, North America
Boralex Secures Final Permit for 100-MW Solar Project
New York regulators approve Boralex’s final siting permit for a 100MW solar project in Washington County, clearing a key hurdle and advancing the Canadian company’s upstate renewable expansion.
Jun 2, 2026 // Plants, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Boralex
New approaches for designing electroluminescent products
New study information exactly how a course of electroluminescent materials, crucial elements of devices such as LED lights and also solar cells, can be developed to function a lot more efficiently.
Jan 11, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, efficiently, Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Andrew M. Rappe, University of Tennessee, Universitat de Valencia, Harbin Institute of Technology, Arvin Kakekhani
These are the 11 most stunning solar farms on the planet
Here are a few of the most remarkable examples from all over the world.
May 19, 2021 // Plants, USA, Spain, France, China, Europe, Asia, North America, UAE, PV Power Plant
BayWa r.e. sells Spanish subsidy-free solar sequel to major European insurer
A solar project part of a landmark subsidy-free series in Spain has found a new owner, a major insurance group set to buy the plant as it nears commissioning.
Jan 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free pv, baywa r.e., Don Rodrigo, Benedikt Ortmann, talanx
Testing floating PV with tracking systems
French water management agency Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) is planning an innovative floating project to test its combination with a solar tracking system. The 250 kW project was awarded a fixed tariff in a special tender for innovative PV projects held by The French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) in February 2018. The plant will be deployed on a water surface managed by SCP in Southern France.
Jan 29, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, France, tender, floating PV, Europe, SCP
Silicon heterojunction solar cell hits 23.5% performance with brand-new hole-selective get in touch with
Scientists from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have actually utilized molybdenum oxide as the hole-selective call in an heterojuction silicon cell. The researchers declare the substance can take on conventional get in touches with in spite of a reduced degree of optimization.
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, solar cell, heterojunction, silicon, Switzerland, EPFL
Storage space dominates in France's capability public auction
The Ministry for the Ecological and also Inclusive Transition's long-lasting public auction was arranged by grid driver RTE under the French ability purchase system. Storage space made up 253 MW of the ability designated in the public auction, which was open to all decarbonizing innovations.
Feb 28, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, auction
One more 30 MW of floating solar all set in France
The neighborhood of Châteauneuf-du-Rhône, in the French division of Drôme, has actually signified its authorization of a floating PV project sent by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône which still calls for a license from the preparation authorities.
Mar 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, France, floating PV, Europe, Nicolas Dalisson
Trina Solar including considerable solar cell as well as module capability for large location 'Vertex' series
'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.
Aug 20, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, pv modules, Thailand, c-si manufacturing, Asia, Trina Solar, monocrystalline wafer, PERC, Vietnam
BayWa r.e., Statkraft team up for Spanish subsidy-free solar successor
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.
Aug 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free solar, baywa r.e., Dr Benedikt Ortmann
Space age solar solution moves toward production
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.
Sep 4, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Europe, PV module, European Union, CSEM, Insolight, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laurent Coulot
Study: Germany needs clean energy surge to replace coal, nuclear
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.
Sep 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, storage, ENERGY STORAGE, Germany, Europe, subsidies, bsw, zero-subsidy pv, Carsten Körnig
France, Netherlands, UK commit US$350m to emerging solar and storage
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.
Sep 23, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, storage, France, UK, Europe, world bank, Netherlands, BESS, emerging markets, emerging pv, cif