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Panasonic Exits North American Solar, Refocuses on Core Strategic Areas
Panasonic Corporation of North America will discontinue its solar and battery storage operations to concentrate on higher-impact businesses, while maintaining full support for existing customers and warranties.
May 1, 2025 // Manufacturing News, Storage, ENERGY STORAGE, Solar, Panasonic, North America, Business Strategy
What is North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP)?
A volunteer organization of alternative energy stakeholder representatives. The board’s goal is developing and implementing certification and quality
Sep 13, 2023
What is AWG?
American Wire Gauge is an American system for measuring the diameter of electrical wire. The lower AWG number is, the thicker the wire is. Most household
Sep 11, 2023
Zimbabwe mine eyes solar amid national power crisis
Caledonia Mining wants to build a solar power plant at its Blanket gold mine in southern Zimbabwe to ward off the worst from the country's increasingly volatile power supply.
Aug 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Africa, Zimbabwe, caledonia, blanket mine, zesa, South Africa, escom, mining
Making 'green' energy from living plant 'bio-solar cells'
Though plants can act as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they're rarely taken into consideration to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons normally carried within plant cells, scientists can produce electricity as part of a "green," biological solar cell.
Dec 14, 2022 // Technology, bio-solar cells
EPFL Builds First Organic Photocatalyst Sheet That Splits Water
EPFL made a polymer photocatalyst sheet that splits water under simulated sunlight with no bias; it reached about 0.1% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency.
Nov 12, 2026 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, Europe, hydrogen, Switzerland, green hydrogen, EPFL
Meyer Burger literally betting the house on HJT cell strategy
The Swiss equipment maker has announced a fresh, CHF18 million order from Oxford PV but the news may have been strategically timed ahead of today’s update that it has completed the sale of its headquarters building.
Oct 23, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Germany, UK, China, Europe, Asia, oxford pv, meyer burger
A domestic vanadium flow battery
Flow battery manufacturers typically go after energy scale storage projects but German start-up VoltStorage is targeting the house market.
Aug 3, 2020 // Storage, Germany, Europe, Start-up, flow battery, VoltStorage, vanadium redox
American scientists discover a new catalyst for hydrogen production from seawater
The research group from the University of Houston has found a novel catalyst which is likely to help effectively split hydrogen from seawater. This innovation is supposed to considerably advance the seawater electrolysis development for commercial hydrogen production.
Nov 22, 2019 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, USA, hydrogen, North America, University of Houston, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Trina Solar brings Elementa grid-scale ESS to North American market
Trina Storage will show the new Elementa battery system during the RE+ program this week. For almost a decade, the company has been establishing, refining, as well as specifying its internal battery modern technology particularly maximized for grid-scale applications. The business has currently boosted its battery lifetime to over 12,000 cycles.
Sep 20, 2022 // Storage, USA, Trina Solar, North America
TotalEnergies sells 50% stake in 1.4-GW North American portfolio assets
TotalEnergies agreed to offload a 50% interest in a 1.4-GW North American solar portfolio to KKR-managed insurance vehicles and accounts.
Sep 29, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, North America, portfolio sale, KKR, TotalEnergies, solar assets
Indian researchers develop low-priced, resilient stimulant for hydrogen manufacturing
Researchers from India's Centre for Nano and also Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) have actually established a sychronisation polymer based driver for hydrogen manufacturing that exhibited incredibly high sturdiness for 70 hrs at a high present thickness of − 300 mA/ cm2.
Aug 11, 2020 // Technology, Storage, India, Asia, hydrogen, CeNS, Ashutosh Sharma
UNIST Organic Tandem Photocathode Splits Water at 7.9% Efficiency
UNIST built an all-organic tandem photocathode that splits water at 7.9% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency with no external voltage, a record the team claims.
Oct 28, 2026 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, South Korea, Asia, hydrogen, green hydrogen, UNIST
Vesper signs Texas PV power play with Pfizer
Virtual PPA for 310MW of the 500MW Hornet solar project will meet pharma giant's The United States and Canada power requires
Oct 19, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, North America, Craig Carson, Vesper, Pfizer
BHP, TransAlta to Build $54 M Solar+ Storage Space Project in Western Australia
Mining titan BHP has actually appointed a 48.2 MW solar-plus-storage hybrid power center to assist power its Nickel West procedures. This will aid BHP minimize exhausts from electricity use at Mt Keith and Leinster by 12 percent, based on FY2020 levels, said the firm.
Aug 2, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Australia, Oceania, John Kousinioris, bhp, transalta, Eddy Haegel