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Kilwinning Battery Project Wins Approval, Strengthening Scotland’s Renewable Energy Backbone
patura’s 100-MW battery storage scheme near Kilwinning secures consent without objections, adding crucial flexibility to Scotland’s renewables-heavy grid.
May 22, 2025 // Storage, BESS, SCOTLAND, Apatura, Kilwinning
CIG Invests $870M in Texas Utility-Scale Solar Projects
CIG invests $870M in Texas solar, powering AI and data centers by next summer, with SYMX Energy at the helm.
Jun 10, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, PV Power Plant, CIG
RES Seeks Approval for 150-MW Westport Battery in East Ayrshire
RES has filed plans for the 150-MW Westport battery near Coylton, aiming to bolster Scotland’s grid stability with flexible, low-carbon power storage.
Jun 11, 2025 // Storage, res, SCOTLAND, Westport
Galileo Empower’s Middlerigg Battery Storage Plan Secures West Lothian Approval
West Lothian Council clears Galileo Empower to build a 49.9 MW battery at Middlerigg Farm, boosting Scotland’s grid flexibility and cutting future CO₂ emissions.
Jul 21, 2025 // Storage, SCOTLAND, Galileo Empower, WestLothian
CORE celebrates ₤ 31m community owned solar PV refinancing deal
A ₤ 31 million inflation linked debt refinancing has actually been safeguarded from institutional investment abrdn by Community Owned Renewable Energy Partners (CORE).
Mar 18, 2022 // Large-Scale, Residential, Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, CORE, Peter Jenkins
Priority Power energizes 2-MW Kansas solar project
Priority Power announced the official opening of the Beloit Solar Farm in Beloit, Kansas. BSF is a 2-MW solar farm that will certainly give renewable electric power to the City of Beloit.
Jul 4, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Solar Project, Priority Power
National Grid Launches 128-MW Solar Park in South Dakota
National Grid Renewables launches South Dakota's largest solar park, Wild Springs, set to power 37,000 homes and bring $29.5 million in economic impact over 20 years.
Jun 26, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial
Iberdrola Begins Commissioning 316-MW Solar Farm in Spain
Iberdrola has begun commissioning its 316-MW Ciudad Rodrigo solar farm in Salamanca, marking a major step in Spain’s renewable energy expansion.
Sep 2, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, Renewable Energy, Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile and Leon
Scientist Pinpoint Way To Improve CIGS Solar Cells
CIGS thin-film solar cells have an optimum academic efficiency of about 33 percent, however the real-world efficiency has gotten to just around 23 percent. This shortfall is attributable to loss systems in the CIGS solar cell in the practical layers as well as at varied user interfaces. But where specifically and why these losses occur has been a point of opinion.
Oct 12, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, CIGS cells, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, CIGS thin-film, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg
REC Solar installs specialized project at observatory atop dormant volcano in Hawaii
REC Solar, a company device of Duke Energy, has actually completed the globe's biggest business planetary system at the highest possible elevation of 13,600 feet atop the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Dec 11, 2020 // Plants, USA, Hawaii, North America, REC Solar, Mark Devenot, Dan Alcombright
Solar Cells with Ferroelectric Crystal Lattice Create 1,000 Times Much More Power
Crystal Lattice of 3 different layers elevated the PV result of solar cells a thousand times. Titanium oxides of 3 different metals were made use of in the research. The study is still taking place to know exactly what triggered the PV result.
Aug 5, 2021 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, MLU
10.5 GW Solar, Wind and Storage Space Project in Morocco
British company Xlinks is developing a 10.5 GW solar-plus-wind project, incorporated with a battery storage center, in Morocco's Guelmim Oued Noun area. Of the created quantity, 3.6 GW renewable energy will be supplied to the UK via the globe's longest subsea cables.
Sep 30, 2021 // Plants, UK, Europe, Africa, Morocco, Renewable Energy, Battery Storage Facility, solar-plus-wind project, Xlinks
Renewable Gadget That Can Create Electrical Energy out of Thin Air
Researchers at UMass Amherst have actually established a tool that utilizes an all-natural healthy protein to produce electrical energy from dampness airborne
Feb 18, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Renewable Energy, International, Electricity Air, Innovation, UMass Amherst
Australian scientists press borders on tandem solar cells
Researchers at Australian National University have actually attained a 27.7% performance price for mechanically piled perovskite-silicon tandem cells.
Mar 11, 2020 // Technology, Australia, solar cell, perovskite, silicon, Oceania, efficiency, ANU
United States Researchers Pursue 5 cents/ kWh Energy Cost Goal with New CSP System
The Department of Energy has granted $2 million to NREL to develop a prototype CSP system that can harness energy potentials of molten salts. This is the very first time that the federal government is leveraging the energy storing power of molten salts; besides proceeding research on particles.
Feb 17, 2022 // Technology, NREL, Renewable Energy, Concentrated solar power, department of energy, csp, molten salts, salt particles