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Northvolt secures $1.6 bn support for twin battery gigafactories
In a little over ten years, Northvolt aims to pour 150 GWh of batteries onto the European market, each year. The firm is also functioning to resource end-of-life batteries for half its raw materials.
Jul 29, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, NORTHVOLT, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Europe, Norway, Alexander Hartman, Peter Carlsson
Researchers present new method for fabricating thin films of perovskite oxide semiconductors
Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led, University of Wisconsin-- Madison and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have actually developed a new method for making thin films of perovskite oxide semiconductors, a class of "smart" materials with distinct properties that can transform in response to stimuli like light, magnetic fields, or electrical fields.
Jan 4, 2023 // Technology, perovskite, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Bharat Jalan
Energy storage to rise to 89GW by 2040 across major European markets
Energy storage systems look set to triumph over various other adaptability suppliers, as solar and wind generation continues to skyrocket.
Jun 4, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Wood Mackenzie, Europe, Rory McCarthy
Simpliphi predicts cobalt-free battery takeover earlier than anticipated
pv magazine consulted with Catherine Von Burg, CEO of the Californian battery company, to go over why she believes lithium-iron-phosphate is the chemistry of the future.
Aug 26, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Catherine Von Burg
Industrial Fabrication Process for Solar Power Technologies
Ever wonder how solar panels are built? Solar is hot right now. But behind every solar farm and rooftop array is an often overlooked
Jan 21, 2026 // Solar
How to Reduce Downtime in Solar Operations?
Reducing downtime in solar operations requires a combination of preventive maintenance strategies, continuous monitoring, and fast, well-coordinated responses
Dec 19, 2025 // Solar, Press releases
Disorder-engineered inorganic nanocrystals set a new efficiency record for ultrathin solar cells
Presented over roof covering tops and also in solar ranches, silicon-based solar cells are, up until now, among the most efficient systems in generating electrical power from sunlight, however their fabrication can be pricey and power demanding, in addition to being heavy and also large.
Feb 15, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, efficiency, ICFO, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Yongjie Wang, Ignasi Burgues-Ceballos
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
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any type of surface into a source of power
MIT engineers have actually established ultralight fabric solar cells that can swiftly and also quickly turn any type of surface into a power source.
Dec 12, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, MIT, Vladimir Bulović
Solar energy ranches can offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
As electrical vehicles swiftly grow in popularity worldwide, there will certainly soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no more sufficient for vehicles that need reliable velocity and array. But a new research shows that these batteries could still have a beneficial and also rewarding second life as backup storage space for grid-scale solar photovoltaic or pv setups, where they might carry out for greater than a decade in this much less requiring function.
May 27, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, MIT, North America, EV batteries, Ian Mathews, Tonio Buonassisi
Challenging plans to release PV on dikes
Dutch researchers are attempting to determine whether large-scale PV projects can be released on flood-control dikes throughout the Netherlands. A 5 MW solar project has actually currently been built on a dike near Groningen, yet the scientists believe there is possible to accumulate to 2.9 GW of PV on such embankments.
Aug 6, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, Europe, Netherlands, Maarten Dörenkämper, Michelle Talsma
Will the pandemic trigger a boom for rooftop solar?
The UK solar field arised reasonably unharmed from the pandemic in 2020 as well as now thinks that it can take advantage of the new work from house culture, which has seen residential energy expenses rise. We speak to Solar Energy UK to figure out a lot more.
Mar 10, 2021 // Residential, Rooftop PV, UK, Europe, rooftop PV, Chris Hewet
Maxeon counts on air, rail products as shipping 'logjam' adds to Q3 shipments miss
Maxeon Solar Technologies is overhauling its logistics approach after a shipping "logjam" credited to the module manufacturer missing its Q3 deliveries advice.
Nov 19, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, polysilicon, Asia, North America, Maxeon, hemlock, freight, shipping, HSPV
Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?
Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one.
Oct 16, 2019 // Solar, California, USA, storage, Sunrun, SunPower, Sunnova, John Berger, woodmac, North America, Tesla Powerwall, Bay Area, Todd Karin, Michelle Davis, Ravi Manghani, storage-plus-solar
7 Companies That Are Leading the Way for Solar-Powered Cars
The naysayers aren't stopping big automakers and startups from developing the technology. There are some ideas where the payoff for success would be so huge that you just have to try.
Nov 27, 2019 // Transport, Japan, Toyota, NEDO, TESLA, Germany, Sono Motors, Hyundai, Elon Musk, Europe, Asia, Korea, Squad Mobility, Robert Hoevers, Light Year, Stella Ersa, Sion, New Energy, Koji Makino