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University of Arkansas signs PPA for 5.1-MW solar array
Over the following 25 years, the University of Arkansas is expected to save millions of dollars in electrical energy expenses and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8.8% due to a new solar services agreement that was signed by UA System President Donald Bobbit on July 18th.
Aug 29, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, North America, University of Arkansas, Scott Turley
FEMA proposes change to constructing code that can enhance expense of ground-mounted solar
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has actually issued countermeasures for a change to the 2024 International Building Code that can boost the prices and inspection requirements of ground-mounted solar projects.
Oct 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, SEIA, FEMA, Abby Hopper
EDF Renewables turns sod of 50MW battery
The BESS will certainly be directly connected to the UK's HV transmission network and also will go live in 2023
Nov 2, 2022 // Storage, UK, Europe, EDF Renewables, Matthew Boulton, Cllr Jim O’Boyle
Enphase inks Texas VPP handle Octopus Energy
Renewable energy retailer Octopus Energy united state introduced a new collaboration with Enphase Energy. Octopus Energy customers now have the opportunity to integrate Enphase home solar as well as battery solutions in their energy plan to unlock low-cost household energy rates. As part of the agreement, Octopus Energy will certainly be able to flexibly control the customer's battery to lower usage when the grid is the most constrained and also help save customers numerous dollars yearly.
Jan 20, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Enphase, Octopus Energy
GSF acquires 75MW of Texan storage
The deal brings the Fund's portfolio to 973.2 MW in the United States as well as Europe
Jan 25, 2023 // Storage, USA, North America, GSF
Agilitas Energy Acquires Texas Energy Storage Systems Portfolio for $75 Million
The projects are acquired in the Greater Houston from Gulf States Renewable Energy. Last year Agilitas Energy raised $350 million from CarVal Investors for the purpose of national development.
Mar 29, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, ERCOT, Agilitas Energy, Barrett Bilotta, ESS, energy storage system, GSR Energy, Gulf States Renewable Energy, standalone battery, storage projects acquisition, Texas storage and solar PV
Lynher Energy purchases 26MW Shropshire solar park
Low Carbon Alliance and Cheswell Grange began working in 2020 to create Twitch Hill PV project
Apr 6, 2023 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Solar Park, Lynher Energy
The sunlight that powers solar panels additionally damages them ... yet 'gallium doping' is providing a service
The procedure of making gallium-doped photovoltaic panels was under a patent till last year. It's just since this approach has started to pick up vapor.
Aug 2, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Solar Panels, solar cells, Oceania, PV panel, University of New South Wales’s School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, gallium
Crystal structure found practically 200 years earlier might hold crucial to solar cell transformation
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific limelight on materials with a crystal framework found nearly two centuries earlier.
Jul 2, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, perovskites, John Labram, Gustav Rose, Tsutomu Miyasaka
Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from "dry" air
Scientists at MIT and somewhere else have significantly boosted the result from a system that can remove drinkable water straight from the air even in dry regions, using warmth from the sun or another source.
Oct 15, 2020 // Technology, Asia, Korea, MIT, Evelyn Wang, Guihua Yu
Bristol group establishes photosynthetic healthy proteins for increased solar power conversion
A group of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has actually established a brand-new photosynthetic healthy protein system making it possible for an improved and also much more lasting strategy to solar-powered technical tools.
Mar 25, 2020 // Technology, UK, Europe, Mike Jones, Juntai Liu
New perovskite LED gives off a spin-polarized radiance
The addition of an unique brand-new perovskite layer has actually allowed researchers to create a "spin-polarized LED" without requiring a magnetic field or extremely reduced temperatures, potentially clearing the path to a boating of novel innovations.
Mar 17, 2021 // Technology, USA, NREL, Washington, perovskite, North America, Joseph Luther, Matthew Beard
AEMO principal wants Australia's grids prepared for 100% renewables by 2025
The new principal of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has said he desires the country's grids to be with the ability of dealing with 100% renewables by 2025.
Jul 16, 2021 // Grids, Australia, AEMO, Oceania, rooftop solar, Daniel Westerman
Microscopic frameworks might further boost perovskite solar cells
Solar cells based upon perovskite compounds might soon make electricity generation from sunlight even more efficient as well as more affordable. The laboratory effectiveness of these perovskite solar cells currently exceeds that of the widely known silicon solar cells. A worldwide team led by Stefan Weber from limit Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz has actually located tiny frameworks in perovskite crystals that can guide the charge transportation in the solar cell. Creative placement of these electron highways might make perovskite solar cells a lot more effective.
Jul 6, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Stefan Weber, Mainz
Dye-sensitized solar cells attain a new power conversion performance record
Mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) were designed in 1990s by Brian O'Regan and Michael Grätzel, taking on the latter's name-- the world-famous Grätzel cells. DSCs convert light into electrical power via photosensitizers-- dye compounds that absorb light and inject electrons into an array of oxide nanocrystals which ultimately are collected as electrical current.
Oct 27, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, efficiency