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Consumers Energy recommends almost 400 MW of brand-new solar projects in Michigan
Consumers Energy announced contracts to include almost 400 megawatts of clean energy from 3 Michigan solar projects in southerly main Michigan. The solar growths are part of the firm's Clean Energy Plan to significantly boost renewable resource, remove coal as a gas resource for power by 2025 as well as achieve net absolutely no carbon exhausts by 2040.
Nov 19, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Consumers Energy, Dennis Dobbs
PVEL adding new solar module testing regimes including backsheet durability and LeTID sensitivity
PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) is including a number of key module reliability tests to its PV Module Product Qualification Program (PQP) that is more responsive to downstream market needs.
Aug 29, 2019 // Manufacturing News, USA, PV Tech, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, North America, pvel, top performer, pv module reliability scorecard, letid, backsheet, microcracks, DNV GL
Tender for 1.5 GW New Solar Projects Soon in Germany
Players can submit their proposals for the growth of their projects by January 15 following year. According to the news, the size of the proposed projects need to not be more than 100 MW.
Sep 19, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, tender, Europe, Federal Network Agency, BSW-Solar, solar projects, Bundesnetzagentur, crisis tender, German Solar Association
New solar component-sourcing company aims to assist smaller installers
A group of seasoned wind and solar industry executives launched a new solar component-sourcing service, Strategic Solar Sourcing.
Aug 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Solar, Strategic Solar Sourcing, John Billingsley, Joseph Kiwak, Tri Global Energy, Sunfinity Renewable Energy
SEIA concerns new protocol to promote ethical solar supply chains
The US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has introduced a new tool to make it simpler for solar designers to map where their modules and modern technologies are made and make sure an ethical supply chain.
Apr 29, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, SunPower, North America, labour, solar supply chain, Suzanne Leta, xingjiang
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
Solar Software When Combined with Artificial Technology – A New Trend in 2021?
Renewable energy is in high demand nowadays. More and more structures require solar software to improve their business projects, agricultural activities, and other corporate processes. 2019-2020 is the period of the PV-panel boom in the world when more and more enterprises began to use renewable energy resources more often and in a bigger quantity.
Feb 12, 2021 // Technology, Software, PV panel, TST Reikard
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
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
A brand-new production procedure for 19.5% reliable perovskite solar cells
Scientists in China have actually suggested making perovskite cells utilizing a pre-nucleation strategy. Contrasted to typical solvent trickling techniques, the technique allows the production of smaller sized crystallites in the perovskite movies as unchecked crystallite development impacts the performance and also sturdiness of cells.
Mar 4, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, efficient
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
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
SECI issues new 1.5GW PV tender under second phase of CPSU program
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued another tender, seeking PV developers to help develop 1.5GW of solar projects across the country. This latest tender stands as part of the second phase of the Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) program.
Aug 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Solar, India, SECI, tender, CPSU, Asia
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