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Mellow Energy Sets Record with 24.36% Efficient PV Module
Mellow Energy shatters records with a 24.36% efficient perovskite PV module, launching a 100 MW production line for groundbreaking solar advancements in 2024.
Oct 1, 2025 // Technology, perovskite, PV module, efficiency, Mellow Energy
EnBW buys up to 800MW of German PV projects from Procon Solar
Solar designer Procon Solar GmbH has actually sold a 400MW PV project pipeline to German power company EnBW, with the potential for this to fold the next year as EnBW targets 50% of renewables in its generation mix by 2025.
Jun 28, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Germany, pv power plants, Europe, enbw, procon solar, Projects, project acquisition, Brandenburg
Shizen Energy starts operation of 3 MW of solar ability in Japan
Japanese renewables programmer Shizen Energy Inc has begun the commercial operation of some 3 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capability in Kagoshima prefecture.
Jul 27, 2021 // Plants, Japan, Asia, PV Power Plant, Shizen Energy
First Solar to take back bragging rights for largest PV module maker in US
Leading CdTe thin-film PV module manufacturer and ‘Solar Module Super League (SMSL), First Solar expects to start volume production at its second US manufacturing plant in early 2020, restoring its bragging rights as the largest PV module manufacturer in US and western hemisphere.
Sep 24, 2019 // Manufacturing News, USA, Q CELLS, First Solar, c-si manufacturing, North America, thin-film PV, first solar inc, cdte thin-film modules, series 6
What is Photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) system?
Often referred to as a solar-thermal system and sometimes as a total energy system. A PV system which does not only convert solar energy to electrical energy,
Sep 13, 2023
REC Group reviews French module gigafactory
The Norwegian solar producer is thinking about a 2 GW heterojunction solar module manufacturing facility in Sarreguemines, in the northeast of the nation.
May 13, 2020 // Manufacturing News, France, Europe, REC Group
Leading 5 United States solar parks
Solar power is a lot more affordable, available and also extensively made use of in the United States today than it was in the past. The progress and possibility of solar power advancement in the nation is startling. Solar power capacity of the US has expanded from approximately 0.34 GW in 2008 to approximately 97.2 GW in 2021.
Apr 8, 2022 // Plants, USA, North America, solar parks, copper mountain solar facility, desert sunlight solar farm, imperial valley solar plant, mount signal solar farm, solar star, topaz solar farm
Brazilian Creral to construct 7.3 MW of solar farms in South, Southeast
Brazilian cooperative Creral Cooperativa de Geracao de Energia e Desenvolvimento has begun building and construction works on 7.35 MW of distributed generation (DG) solar farms.
Apr 7, 2021 // Plants, solar farm, Creral, Brazilia
Temperature-based MPPT algorithm to improve PV system efficiency
Researchers in Spain have actually created a maximum power point monitoring (MPPT) algorithm based on just one input parameter-- PV module temperature. The formula has actually already shown stability in screening, the scientists claim.
Jul 29, 2020 // Technology, Spain, Europe, PV module, MPPT
Gauging non-fulleren acceptors for organic PV
U.S. scientists are trying to understand how non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NAFs) increase the efficiency of organic PV devices. They claim that methoxy groups embedded in the acceptors could facilitate an efficiency increase of approximately 6%.
Dec 20, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, organic PV, North America, Georgia Institute of Technology, UNIST, organic PV cells, organic PV devices, Jean-Luc Brédas
Canadian researchers have done the math on optimizing PV output
Mathematicians at Canada’s University of Waterloo who turned their attention to solar power have developed an algorithm they say offers better control over PV plant output. The researchers estimate the algorithm could improve the output of a 100 MW power plant by almost a million kilowatt-hours per year.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Canada, North America, University of Waterloo’s Department of Applied Mathematics, Milad Farsi
Downing Renewables gets 13-MWp solar PV portfolio in UK
London-based Downing Renewables as well as Infrastructure Trust Plc (LON: DORE) has bought a portfolio of 2 functional solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) assets with an incorporated capacity of 13 MWp in the UK.
Apr 27, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Downing Renewables
Dominion Energy acquires 72MW PV project in South Carolina from First Solar
Dominion Energy has acquired a 72MW PV project from First Solar that is expected to enter service in late 2019. The installation will provide power and renewable energy attributes under a Dominion Energy South Carolina contract that was previously filed and accepted in South Carolina.
Oct 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, North America, Keller Kissam, dominion
Cheapest shortlisted proposal in Saudi 1.47 GW tender was $0.0161/ kWh.
The shortlisted designers are EDF, Total, ACWA Power, Masdar, First Solar, Marubeni, and also Al Blagha Holding.
Apr 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, Saudi Arabia, tender, Asia, NREP
Naturgy purchases 125-MW solar-BESS hybrid project in W Australia
Spanish electrical and also gas utility Naturgy Energy Group SA (BME: NTGY) has actually acquired a ready-to-build project for a 125-MW solar PV farm hybridised with a battery energy storage system (BESS) of approximately 220 MWh in Cunderdin, Western Australia.
Sep 1, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Naturgy, hybrid project











