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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
LG Energy Solution will invest $4.5 billion to enhance American battery production
LG Energy Solution (formerly LG Chem) plans to invest more than $4.5 billion over the next four years on battery production ability in the USA. This new investment will allow for 10,000 more American jobs and 70 GWh of additional battery manufacturing capacity. The batteries will mainly be provided to the electrical lorry market and some energy storage space system companies.
Mar 15, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, LG CHEM, North America, Jong Hyun Kim
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
Arevon purchases 2 GW of First Photovoltaic panel for Midwest as well as Southwest projects
Arevon Energy has actually secured a greater than 2-GWDC supply of advanced Series 7 thin-film solar modules from First Solar to sustain its growing renewable resource portfolio.
Oct 27, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, First Solar, solar panel, John Breckenridge, Arevon
Latin America Booms With Sungrow's 15GW Solar Surge
Latin America is becoming a key market for solar power. Sungrow, a leading inverter and energy storage system supplier, has achieved 15 GW of orders, largely driven by Brazil. The Company has introduced several innovations and is looking to capitalize on the expected upward trend in the region.
Sep 4, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Sungrow, Latin america, storage inverters
Eskom to collectively establish solar projects at South African coal mines
South African utility Eskom has actually authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with mining business Exxaro as well as Seriti Resources to help decarbonise their procedures by releasing solar PV.
Oct 25, 2021 // Plants, Africa, eskom, South Africa, mining, coal mining
'Climate Wednesday': Just how President Biden means to stimulate yet further renewables development in the US
Having considered the other day "Climate Wednesday", US President Joe Biden signed a raft of Executive Orders developed to ratchet up the US' initiatives to fight climate modification and increase the development of its residential renewables sector.
Jan 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Donald Trump, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Joe Biden, president biden