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Organic solar cell with brand-new movie morphology and also 16.88% performance
Chinese scientists have developed a single-layered organic solar cell based on non-fullerene acceptors with improved fill factor and short-circuit current density. They achieved their results with a new morphology that could be more suitable for vertical charge transport.
Mar 27, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Asia, solar cell, efficiency, Shanghai Jiao Tong
Mainstream Renewable Power doubles down on Chilean renewables with new finance deal
Renewables developer Mainstream Renewable Power has more than doubled a financing facility after striking an agreement with Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
Oct 15, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Chile, South america, financing, mainstream renewable power, hsbc, abn amro, Mary Quaney, Vincent Goedegebuure
Sol Systems to mount 5-MW solar project for New York town's water authority
As part of a long-term objective to decrease power expenditures, New york city's Monroe County Water Authority (MCWA) revealed strategies to mount a 5-MW solar power variety on its existing residential or commercial property at the edge of Penfield Rd. and Watson Hulbert Rd. in the Town of Penfield.
Jun 18, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, sol systems, Gil C. Quiniones, MCWA, Nicholas Noce, William Graves
Australia's new prime minister vows to make nation 'renewable energy superpower'
Australia's new head of state, Anthony Albanese, has promised to make the nation a renewables "superpower" following his Labor Party's victory in Saturday's federal election, which ousted predecessor Scott Morrison's conservative coalition.
May 23, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Policy, ENERGY STORAGE, Australia, climate council, Oceania, rooftop solar, policy, net zero, national electricity market, grid upgrades, Anthony Albanese
New all-iron redox flow battery for renewables storage space
Scientists in the U.S. insurance claim to have shown a low-cost, long-life, secure as well as environment-friendly redox flow battery. The gadget is said deal coulombic effectiveness of 97.9% thanks to useful electrolyte additives, pH and elevated temperature level.
Jul 22, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, hydrogen, North America, efficiency, redox flow battery
Popular NREL cell efficiency chart shines in new interactive version
There is a new means to explore the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) famous chart highlighting the efficiency of solar cells.
Nov 22, 2022 // Technology, NREL, solar cell, efficiency
Qcells signs up with European group in new project to promote perovskite-silicon tandem cell commercialization
South Korea-based Qcells and also a European research study group (led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)) have actually jointly established a pilot manufacturing line for silicon-perovskite tandem cells in Thalheim, Germany. The project intends to speed up the innovation's mass production as well as market infiltration. The project started on 1 November.
Nov 25, 2022 // Technology, South Korea, Asia, solar cell, HZB, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Bernd Stannowski, perovskite-silicon tandem cell
Designers develop new fuel cells with two times the operating voltage as hydrogen
Electrification of the transport sector - among the largest customers of energy worldwide - is vital to future energy and also environmental durability. Electrification of this market will certainly require high-power fuel cells (either stand alone or combined with batteries) to promote the transition to electric cars, from automobiles and trucks to watercrafts and aircrafts.
Jun 19, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Solar to Fuel, USA, hydrogen, North America, fuel cells, St. Louis, Vijay Ramani, Shrihari Sankarasubramanian
New company version to assist utilities have as well as operate rooftop PV
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the U.S. have defined a utility-ownership design for roof PV they say can elevate power company investor earnings 2-5%.
Aug 20, 2020 // Technology, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Rooftop PV, USA, rooftop PV, North America
EDEN Renewables India Adds 1.35 GW of new Solar Plants to its Profile
EDEN Renewables India, the similarly possessed JV of Total and EDF RE has actually been awarded 3 solar projects for a total of 1.35 GW in Rajasthan, India.
Oct 1, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Total Eren, SECI, Asia, EDF Renewables, NHPC, solar projects, Frédéric Belloy, Fabienne Demol
Solar Power Finds Ripe New Market in Crop Protection
Which solar panel works best with which crop? The response to that concern is being looked for in hundreds of farms worldwide.
Sep 10, 2020 // Market Research, USA, Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, China, Europe, Asia, Netherlands, North America, baywa r.e., tata power solar, Ashish Khanna, Stephan Schindele, Sascha KrauseTunker, Maximilian Vorast, Sohini Gupta, Ajit Jain
New bifacial modules tax exemption policy in the US
A slip assessment gave on November 19, 2020, the United States Court of International Trade ("USCIT") allowed the inconvenience of taxes on bifacial sun oriented boards, a triumph for the Trump organization's years-long exertion to restrict imports of unfamiliar made sun powered advances.
Mar 2, 2021 // Policy, USA, pv modules, Trump, North America, bifacial modules, Joe Biden
Two significant solar-plus-storage projects green-lit in Australia's New South Wales
Programmers of 2 considerable solar-plus-storage projects in the Australian state of New South Wales have actually been given the go-ahead, with only small problems contributed to their propositions.
Mar 11, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales, lithium-ion, upc, wollar solar development, approvals, permits
New thin-film modern technology uses lasting elements for solar panels
Commercialized thin-film photovoltaic panels on the market include rare-earth elements like indium and gallium, or very toxic steels like cadmium. Both of these thin-film photovoltaic panel types have their own problems, such as high-cost and issues in operation in living places.
Jun 30, 2020 // Technology, Solar Panels, solar cells, Jin-Kyu Kang, DGIST, Dae-Hwan Kim
Amazon Announces New Investments in RE in United States, Canada, Europe
Retail gigantic Amazon introduced this week that it was purchasing 9 brand-new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the US, Canada as well as Europe, therefore coming to be the largest company buyer of renewable resource in Europe.
Apr 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Amazon, Europe, Abigail Ross Hopper, Jeff Bezos, solar projects, Climate Pledge