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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
Meta Secures 240MW Texas Solar Attributes with Sunraycer Renewables Deal
Meta buys 100% of environmental attributes from Sunraycer’s Midpoint and Gaia Solar projects (240.5 MWAC/311 MWDC) in Texas, supporting its 24/7 carbon-free energy goal.
May 2, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, Renewable Energy, PV Power Plant, solar projects, Sunraycer Renewables, Meta Platforms
SSE Invites Community Input on 120 MW Tinnycross Battery Plan
SSE Renewables starts public consultations for its 120 MW/240 MWh Tinnycross BESS in County Offaly, inviting local feedback ahead of a revised planning application.
May 2, 2025 // Storage, clean energy, Battery Storage, Ireland, Europe, SSE Renewables, community consultation
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
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
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
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
SEIA launches community solar siting advice for designers and also regulators as it advises better uptake across the US
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has actually released a new guide on community solar siting processes that gives a framework for designers and also state regulators to seek advice from as well as stresses the need for higher release throughout the United States.
Mar 2, 2022 // Plants, Policy, USA, SEIA, small-scale solar, North America, project design, project siting
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
A closer consider clouds to maximize power projections
A team of researchers in the United States has actually created a weather forecasting design made to much better anticipate the solar irradiation that an offered location will certainly obtain. The version utilizes satellite information to approximate the light transmission residential or commercial properties of clouds, a statistics commonly forgotten in conventional weather forecasting, yet however essential in modeling PV power return.
Apr 16, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America
Effective, 'eco-friendly' quantum-dot solar cells make use of flaws
Unique quantum dot solar cells created at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the performance of existing quantum-dot based tools, yet without lead or various other poisonous aspects that many solar cells of this kind count on.
May 19, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, Los Alamos, Victor Klimov









