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New membrane layer promises cheaper electrolysis
A novel anion exchange membrane layer has been developed by German chemical company Evonik. Its designers assert it can make hydrogen generation cheaper, as the cells used for electrolysis featuring the tool would not need rare-earth elements.
Aug 19, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Evonik, Oliver Conradi
A new battery mix to prevent dendrites
Scientists at the United States Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a root cause of dendrite formation, which can cause battery failure and even fires in lithium-ion technology. With this new knowledge, the group is now working on electrolyte recipes that eliminate dendrite growth entirely.
Oct 16, 2019 // Technology, USA, North America, PNNL, Chongmin Wang
First Solar Orders 457 MW Modules from MN8 Energy
First Solar and MN8 Energy team up for 457MW of cutting-edge solar modules, boosting US renewable industry and creating thousands of jobs.
May 3, 2024 // Manufacturing News, First Solar, PV module, MN8 Energy
Spain's Canary Islands to host 255MW of new solar PV
Spain's government and the European Union will certainly give funding to sustain the advancement of 65 brand-new solar projects in the Canary Islands by the end of next year.
Mar 15, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, erdf, miteco, canary islands, solcan
Pivot Energy assists Denver affordable housing facility with solar procurement
National industrial and community solar provider Pivot Energy introduced it is supporting the sustainability objectives of Mile High Ministries by investing $100,000 toward the growth of a 50-kW onsite solar array and supplying a 196-kW community solar subscription to the nonprofit organization's new affordable housing complicated, Clara Brown Commons (CBC).
Nov 18, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, pivot energy, Tom Hunt, Clara Brown Commons
New perovskite manufacture technique for solar cells paves means to massive manufacturing
A brand-new, simpler option procedure for making stable perovskite solar cells overcomes the crucial traffic jam to massive manufacturing and also commercialization of this encouraging renewable-energy innovation, which has actually remained tantalizingly unreachable for greater than a years.
Mar 22, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, NTU, Wanyi Nie, Leeyih Wang
SEIA concerns new protocol to promote ethical solar supply chains
The US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has introduced a new tool to make it simpler for solar designers to map where their modules and modern technologies are made and make sure an ethical supply chain.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, SunPower, North America, labour, solar supply chain, Suzanne Leta, xingjiang
Investment firm gets 12-project East Coast solar portfolio from Agilitas Energy
Agilitas Energy, a Northeast renewable energy developer as well as owner-operator, closed on the sale of a 16.8 MWdc solar PV portfolio to CarVal Investors. The portfolio is made up of 12 solar projects varying from land fill, ground-mount and also roof, located in New York, Massachusetts as well as New Hampshire. Most of the projects were established, crafted built and run by the Agilitas group within the past 4 years.
Dec 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Solar Project, Agilitas Energy, Barrett Bilotta, Jerry Keefe
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
Solar Accounted For 40% Of New United States Electricity Generation Capacity In 2019
A brand-new record by the Solar Energy Industries Association states solar power setups included 13.3 gigawatts to the supply of electrical power in the United States in 2019-- 40% of the total amount.
Mar 19, 2020 // Market Research, USA, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper
Better Energy safeguards power offer for Danish PV
Seven-year PPA with Lundbeck takes pharmaceutical firm to 100% renewable electricity
Jan 29, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, PPA, Europe, Rasmus Lildholdt Kjær, Lundbeck
New method paves the way for ideal perovskites
An amazing brand-new solar material called organic-inorganic halide perovskites can eventually help the united state accomplish its solar aspirations and decarbonize the power grid. One thousand times thinner than silicon, perovskite solar materials can be tuned to respond to various shades of the solar spectrum merely by changing their structure mix.
Oct 19, 2021 // Technology, USA, North America, perovskites, Berkeley Lab, solar thin films
One More Major Development For Solar Energy
The supposed gas bridge has recently come to be the scourge of coal. Currently, next-generation perovskite solar cells are likely to not just place the last nail in the coal's coffin yet likewise to twist the knife into a suffering oil and gas industry.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, Trump, North America, efficiency, perovskite solar cells, Thin-film PV panels, Oak Ridge National Lab
Perovskite mineral sustains solar-energy sustainability
When it involves the future of solar power cells, say farewell to silicon, and also hello there to calcium titanium oxide-- the substance mineral better known as perovskite.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, perovskite cells, Fengqi You, Cornell, Silicon pv, Xueyu Tian
Kaco Launches New 1-Phase String Inverters for Residential PV Systems
The "blueplanet NX1 M2" has outcome powers between 3 and five kVA. With two MPP trackers, each capable of managing 3,500 watts, they appropriate for any kind of roofing system geometry, says Kaco.
Aug 6, 2021 // Residential, Inverters, Germany, Europe, KACO new energy