Search



RPC, Greenfield companion to create 500 MW of battery storage space in UK
The UK is the leading utility-scale battery storage space market in Europe with 1.7 GW installed by the end of 2021 and also a projected 10 GW by 2030,
May 30, 2023 // Storage, UK, Europe, RPC, Greenfield
BayWa r.e. closes financing for 54.1-MWp solar project in Spain
solar PPAs in between them aimed at matching Velux team's power consumption in Europe. The 2nd agreement is to sustain BayWa r.e.'s solar project near
May 31, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, baywa r.e., Solar Project
Maxeon Solar achieves record efficiency of 24.7%, various other improvements
Extra especially, it is now delivering 23% efficient Maxeon 6 panels to Europe and also is getting ready to provide a 24% reliable variation of the Maxeon 3
Jun 2, 2023 // Technology, Manufacturing News, NREL, efficiency, Maxeon Solar
Quanta Energy eyes 100-MW-per-year solar growth in Germany
that it plans to utilise its experience from solar (PV) projects throughout Europe to go after intensive advancement for service clients in the "very promising"
Jun 5, 2023 // Plants, Germany, Europe, PV Power Plant, Quanta Energy
Spain’s Solar Bubble Looks Ready to Pop. The Market Will Be Just Fine
(still currently in draft form) have drawn developer interest from across Europe at a time when former solar darlings Germany and the U.K. have slowed.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, UK, PPA, Wood Mackenzie, Lightsource BP, Europe, baywa r.e., Tom Heggarty, Conor McGuigan, Andrea Grotzke
Ikea's complete residence solar offer arrives in Australia
solar panels from its online shop, making it the very first market outside of Europe to obtain accessibility to the sustainable offer. The brand-new Ikea home
Jun 11, 2020 // Residential, Australia, Oceania, ikea, Keera Single, Jan Gardberg
Causal sequences of Covid-19
the impacts of Covid-19 at a time markets such as the United States and also Europe are just currently starting to reveal. " So much, there is no significant
Mar 20, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, China, Asia, Corrine Lin, covid-19
WoodMac: Merchant shift may push PV towards risk-keener owners
investors’ ascendancy as asset holders last year was especially marked in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where they owned over half of region-wide solar
Oct 7, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, woodmac, Africa, middle east, NextEra, Rishab Shrestha, Tom Heggarty
BMW now has Half a Million Electric Vehicles on Road
vehicles in Germany since 2016 and also occupies a leading position in Europe and worldwide. The company has formulated clear goals for sales of electrified
Dec 20, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Transport, Germany, Europe, electric vehicles, BMW Group, Sebastian Mackensen, Oliver Zipse, Pieter Nota
Chinese investment in renewables triples under Belt & Road initiative
along the former overland Silk Road and maritime Spice Route from China to Europe across Asia and includes central Asia, the Middle East, parts of Africa and
Jul 30, 2019 // Plants, China, Tata Mustasya, NGO, Liu Junyan, Wang Yan, Asia
Enel use bifacial as Chile's 'initially' solar-wind crossbreed gets in building
concerns in 2020 past what "generally would have held true". At a SolarPower Europe online panel in mid-April, EGP's head of Europe Aristotelis Chantavas
May 21, 2020 // Plants, Enel, pv power plants, Chile, solar pv, South america, Latin america, Bifacial PV, atacama, enel green power, bifacial solar, egp
Fluence, Siemens supply Baltic battery pilot
assist the country "go after a simultaneous affiliation with the Continental Europe electrical grid and also a shift to tidy energy". Enhancing quantities of
Apr 7, 2021 // Storage, Europe, Lithuania, Siemens, Fluence, Manuel Perez Dubuc, LITGRID
Trina Solar first PV manufacturer to get a double Environmental Protection Certification
their choice. Each EPD is valid for five years as well as is applicable to the European, North American and global markets, suggesting Trina Solar' products satisfy
Jan 15, 2021 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Trina Solar, EPD certification, photovoltaic industry, Sustainable, UL-CCIC Company, Jun Shi, Bo Cao
'Distinct' solar-storage option providers plot 300MW/ 3.6 GWh Australia project
Europe-headquartered renewables company Photon Energy is functioning to present the technology created by Australian business RayGen. It incorporates a type of concentrating solar power (CSP) + solar photovoltaics (PV) crossbreed that RayGen calls 'PV Ultra', coupled to a long-duration energy storage tech dubbed 'thermal hydro'. PV Ultra produces both power and also warm using both PV components and tilted mirror towers (heliostats) to create CSP. The thermal hydro part is therefore called, since instead of using water reservoirs at various heights like a pumped hydro plant, it makes use of reservoirs at various temperature levels, one hot, one cold, to save energy: the PV as well as grid electricity cools one, the CSP warms the other. The difference in temperature level is after that made use of to create electrical energy utilizing an Organic Rankine Cycle engine, utilizing thermodynamic cycles to transform steam right into power with a roundtrip efficiency in the region of 70%. Photon Energy, which has created as well as operates and maintains PV plants in Europe and also Australia, introduced its calculated partnership with RayGen in April 2020, teasing the potential grand-scale their projects can attain and the enabling of night and day renewable energy that could result. The technology has already been made use of in a 1MWac demonstration plant in the Australian state of Victoria, in operation for six years so far. Photon Energy is creating multiple possible websites for the technology it referred to as "unique," as well as earlier this year RayGen closed a Series C funding round for an additional project in Victoria, this time of 4MW solar with 3MW/ 50MWh energy storage. That AU$ 55 million financing round was shut after the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) added AU$ 15 million, along with private investment, as well as followed ARENA assisting to fund a feasibility study. Investors in the round consisted of Australian energy significant seller and also generator AGL, Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Technology Ventures and also Equinor Ventures. That project, in the Victorian town of Carwarp, is currently incomplete and also results from go on the internet in the middle of next year. On the South Australia project, Photon Energy claimed that initial layouts see it being developed with 300MW of solar to a 150MW grid link. Although in previous press releases Photon and also RayGen had actually claimed the technology is targeted at supplying as much as concerning 17 hrs of storage space, today Photon stated the South Australia project's 3.6 GWh storage capacity would certainly equate to more like 24-hour of storage duration. The process of getting allowing as well as grid connection has currently begun and also Photon Energy intends to obtain its giga-plant to the ready-to-build stage by the end of 2023.
Nov 5, 2021 // Plants, Australia, Oceania, thermal energy storage, photon energy, csp, concentrating solar power
Great opportunities for solar cells as building materials
a considerable part of the energy needs in city areas," states Gholami. In Europe, power usage in buildings accounts for 41 percent of overall energy usage in
Nov 19, 2021 // BIPV, Technology, bipv, Europe, Building-integrated photovoltaics, University of Stavanger, Hassan Gholami