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Australia’s CEFC teams up with bank to fund solar, EV batteries
Australia’s green bank has found a funding partner for a new programme to support solar and electric vehicle (EV) batteries, days after pledging to back less-mature technologies more decisively.
Aug 14, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, storage, Australia, Clean Energy Finance Corp, rooftop, Oceania
Olympics power firm Aggreko challenged to cut carbon
The global firm which helps keep the lights on at the Olympics and Glastonbury music festival says it is being challenged by customers to cut carbon.
Aug 17, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Storage, Solar, storage, Aggreko, carbon, Robert Wells
California passes law that prevents cities from taxing energy generated by solar rooftop projects
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last week financial protections for consumer investments in rooftop solar energy. The law, AB 1208 authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), extends a prohibition on cities and counties taxing the energy generated by rooftop solar panels for use by homeowners and businesses.
Sep 9, 2019 // Rooftop PV, California, USA, rooftop, North America, rooftop solar, Gavin Newsom, Bernadette Del Chiaro, Assemblymember Ting, Dave Rosenfeld, Solar Rights Alliance
EU to sustain tenders for 15 GW of renewables over following 2 years
The EurActiv website has actually released a draft of the European Commission's repair strategy, that includes a tender program for 15 GW of renewable resource projects over the following 2 years. The tender system is anticipated to elevate EUR25 billion of financial investments.
May 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, tender, Europe, EurActiv
Dutch grid drivers will not need to compensate for shut down solar rooftops
Preacher of economic events and also climate modification, Eric Wiebes, has actually written to parliament to validate grid companies do not have to pay PV system owners when their installments are disconnected from the network due to capability concerns or poor-quality voltage.
May 28, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Rooftop PV, Europe, rooftop PV, Netherlands, Eric Wiebes
IBC back-contact solar roofing system for electric vehicles
Dutch EV startup Lightyear is already generating prototype roofs to prolong the series of its Lightyear One solar car. The roofing systems will certainly include interdigitated back contact solar batteries made by U.S. company SunPower and backsheets from Dutch international DSM.
Jun 9, 2020 // Transport, USA, North America, electric vehicles, Lightyear, EV, Start-up, Martijn Lammers, Nathan Arbitman
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
Mexican utility verifies very first invesment in solar
The Comisión Federal de Electricidad will spend around $342 million into two PV plants with a complete generation capacity of 350 MW at its geothermal center in Baja California. President Obrador, on the other hand, has actually described the previous regimen's Energy Reform program as a 'pillage plan.'
Aug 5, 2020 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Mexico, North America, Solar Project, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, Petróleos Mexicanos
Solar supply chains and style techniques will certainly require to adjust to next-gen panel styles
The solar supply chain will certainly need to significantly adapt and change existing solar delivery practices and overhaul utility-scale solar layout versions to fit next generation panels, market stakeholders have said.
Sep 16, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, solar module, supply chains, Tino Weiss
Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating PV
Hybrid systems of floating photovoltaic panels and also hydropower plants might hold the technical capacity to create a substantial section of the electricity created yearly around the world, according to an analysis by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Sep 30, 2020 // Technology, Floating PV, USA, NREL, floating PV, North America, Nathan Lee
Bifacial panels likely to stay exempt from Section 201 tariffs
US President Donald Trump's plan to reverse the exemption for bifacial panels within Section 201 profession tariffs look readied to be warded off once more.
Oct 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, Donald Trump, North America, section 201, regulation, bifacial exemption, import tariffs, bifacial tariffs
Tesla affordable solar strategy paying dividends as installs rebound
Tesla has said its technique to deliver the lowest-cost solar rooftop installments in the US is settling after it saw an increasing of installs in Q3 2020.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, TESLA, ENERGY STORAGE, Elon Musk, North America, Solar Rooftop
Appealing techniques for long lasting perovskite solar cells
Perovskite products are becoming progressively prominent as the active layer in solar cells. Inner forces in these products trigger distortions in their crystal frameworks, decreasing symmetry and also adding to their intrinsic instability. They are also based on environmental destruction.
Oct 28, 2020 // Technology, China, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, Soochow University, Zhao-Kui Wang
Artha Energy Commences Expansion Work on Rooftop Solar Plant in Aurangabad
Artha Energy Resources has actually revealed that it has begun expansion work on its 165 kW rooftop solar power plant in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
Oct 30, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Rooftop PV, India, Asia, rooftop PV, Artha Energy, Animesh Damani
bp to Invest $1 Billion in EV Charging Across US by 2030
bp will bring fast charging infrastructure to Hertz locations in significant cities of the US. A number of the fast-charging installments will certainly include large-scale gigahub locations. Worldwide power empire British Petroleum or bp has announced its fresh plans to invest $1 billion right into electric vehicle (EV) charge points across the USA. bp said that it will bring fast charging infrastructure to Hertz locations in significant cities of the United States by 2030.
Feb 17, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, bp, Dave Lawler, Angeles International Airport, British Petroleum, charging infrastructure at Hertz locations, electric vehicle charge stations, EV charging in USA, fast-charging installations at gigahubs, Stephen Scherr