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Brookfield Launches $10B BGTF II Fund for Clean Energy Transition
Brookfield Asset Management raises $10 billion for its second Global Transition Fund, targeting clean energy expansion and sustainable solutions, led by Mark Carney and Connor Teskey.
Feb 6, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Brookfield
BII Backs Blueleaf’s 2-GW India Renewables Drive
Blueleaf Energy, backed by Macquarie, wins BII funding to drive a 2 GW India surge in renewables and storage, accelerating its nationwide clean-power expansion.
Oct 29, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, Blueleaf Energy
Eagle Point Lends $28.5 Million for Texas VPP
Eagle Point’s $28.5M senior loan powers Heritage’s 40-site Texas solar+storage VPP, speeding permits, stacking revenues, and delivering ERCOT flexibility with structured, bankable cash flows.
Mar 17, 2026 // Storage, USA, Texas, North America, virtual power plant, ERCOT, distributed storage, private credit
Tampa Electric to spend roughly US$ 800 million for 600MW of brand-new PV ability
Tampa Electric, among Florida's biggest investor-owned electrical energies, has actually released a substantial development of solar energy that will certainly see the business spend about US$ 800 million to include an additional 600MW of solar energy by the end of 2023.
Feb 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Florida, North America, PSC, tampa electric
French-German partnership for upright PV
French power large Total as well as German start-up Next2Sun have actually signed up with pressures to create upright PV services in the French market. The oil team's device Total Quadran strategies to utilize the remedy in agrivoltaic projects.
Mar 31, 2020 // Technology, France, Germany, Europe, Total, Thierry Muller, Next2Sun
Solar panels move off the roofing system on to exterior wall surfaces with Solstex
Using the power of the sun through brand-new solar panel exterior for LEED credit rating and also net no buildings
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, UK, Europe, solar panel, CdTe, Solstex, Hugh Lowry
WMG and Senergy Innovations launch graphene enabled all polymer solar thermal cell
Solar thermal cells continue to draw in much passion as they have substantial capacity to warmth water in a cost-effective and also lasting process. To day, the effectiveness of these cells has actually been limited as the polymers utilized in their manufacture are poor thermal conductors.
Oct 16, 2020 // Technology, UK, Europe, solar cell, efficiency, WMG, Senergy Innovations, polymer solar thermal cell, Tony McNally, Greg Gibbons, Christine Boyle
Clēnera chooses RES to create Wapello Solar project in Iowa
Clēnera, a privately-held renewable energy company, announced it has selected RES (Renewable Energy Systems) as its EPC (engineering, procurement as well as building and construction) partner for the 127.5-megawatt Wapello Solar project in Iowa. Wapello Solar will certainly deliver reliable, clean and affordable energy to greater than 45,000 houses when operational by the end of 2020.
Oct 27, 2020 // Plants, USA, North America, Tim Jordan, Iowa, Clēnera, Michael Gallego, Solar Project, Bill Cherrier
PV for cooking
Traditional solar cookers concentrate sunlight on mirrored surfaces and convert it into heat. But this summer, Sunspot unveiled Sunspot Solar Electric Cooking, a new cooker based on PV technology. The system relies on two PV modules, a lead-carbon battery, an inverter, and an induction cooktop.
Aug 21, 2019 // Technology, USA, North America, Sunspot Solar Electric Cooking system, Elsevier, International Solar Energy Society, David Renne
Hanergy touts solar powered car that can run 30 days without charging
The thin-film manufacturer and Chinese carmaker Joylong Automobile applied thin film cells to the roof of a small commercial vehicle which was tested for a month. Hanergy says its K-Car could offer an effective daily range of 50-100km without charging.
Sep 24, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Transport, China, Asia, Hanergy, Joylong Automobile, K-Car, CIGS thin-film modules
Parabolic bifacial module with active cooling system
Researchers in Morocco have actually made a brand-new bifacial module with a cooling system, based upon bifacial parabolic solar cells that are attached to each various other through tubes for panel cooling. They are currently patenting the tech, however have yet to produce a first prototype.
Jun 22, 2020 // Technology, Africa, Morocco, Parabolic bifacial module, cooling system, USMBA, El Ghzizal
Lightsource bp Elevates Euro 52M For 100MW Solar Projects in Spain
Lightsource bp has increased Euro 52 million lending for 2 49.5 MW solar sites in the Aragon area of Spain. These projects might power 45,890 Spanish residences with conserving 59,474 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The plants are expected to be functional by 2022.
Jul 13, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Lightsource BP, Europe, solar projects, Fernando Roger
Incorporating perovskite with silicon, solar cells transform even more energy from sun
Lots of nations around the globe are devoted to reducing emissions or getting to net-zero exhausts to meet the United Nations' environment goals of keeping temperature increases listed below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. Renewable energy modern technologies, particularly solar power panels, will play a substantial role in achieving these goals.
Aug 17, 2021 // Technology, UK, Europe, solar cell, oxford pv, perovskite, silicon, efficiency, Laura Miranda Pérez
Chile ushers in Latin America's initial thermosolar plant
Chile on Tuesday inaugurated Latin America's first-ever thermosolar energy plant, a huge complicated called Cerro Dominador in the Atacama desert that gives a boost to the country's quest for carbon-neutrality by 2050.
Jun 14, 2021 // Plants, Thermal, Chile, South america, Latin america, Sebastian Pinera, thermosolar plant
International scientists create two-sided solar cells to accumulate scattered light
To raise the performance of solar panels, a team of scientists based in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Germany and Canada has developed a bifacial, or two-sided, tandem solar cell, constructed by combining the very best of the perovskite and silicon innovations.
Jan 13, 2021 // Technology, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Italy, solar cells, Europe, Asia, North America, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Ted Sargent, Yi Hou, Michele De Bastiani