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Yet another solar pipeline is in the works in Spain, with hundreds of megawatts slated for deployment with backing from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

United States Department of Energy (DOE) secretary Jennifer Granholm has revealed a brand-new National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) target to have community solar projects supply 26GW of power and also develop US$ 1 billion in bill cost savings by 2025.

With the region of Styria considering making PV mandatory on all new buildings, the nation’s Climate Fund will support PV and storage projects in agriculture and forestry. Applications can be submitted by November 2020 – or until the pot is empty.

First Solar has actually chosen northern Alabama as the area for its 4th U.S. solar module manufacturing facility. The new thin-film manufacturing facility is part of the previously announced financial investment that will certainly grow First Solar's American manufacturing footprint to over 10 GW by 2025.

Avaada Group boosts India's solar future with a 5-GW facility and a new 1.5-GW factory, driving sustainable energy growth in Uttar Pradesh.

The early development of PV projects in Latin America was spearheaded by one country: Chile. And while there remain prospects for large-scale project development, its distributed generation segment has the potential for enormous growth, says Marcela Puntí Martín, the general manager of the Chilean Solar Energy Association (ACESOL).

International solar tracker deliveries got to brand-new record degrees in 2019, going beyond 31 GW, up 55% year on year. Remarkable need in the United States-- as well as multiple gigawatt markets in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Spain and also Australia-- helped move the market to new heights, composes Cormac Gilligan, associate director at IHS Markit.

Scientists in Germany have attained 12.6% performance with a 26 sq cm organic panel as well as 11.7% for a 204 sq cm device. The tasks were accomplished with a new module format and a slower, high-resolution, short-pulse laser structuring process.

Headquartered in Singapore, solar supplier Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it will release a brand-new line of frameless, thin, lightweight, glass-less, and also adaptable silicon-based solar panels this summer called Maxeon Air. The panels will certainly be offered in pick European markets in the second half of 2021, before a basic worldwide release in the initial quarter of 2022.

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.

A research laboratory in photonics and renewable energy at the University of Ottawa has actually developed a new method for determining the solar energy produced by bifacial photovoltaic panels, the double-sided solar modern technology which is expected to fulfill increased worldwide energy demands moving on.

Engineers created a brand-new kind of battery that weaves 2 promising battery sub-fields right into a solitary battery. The battery utilizes both a solid state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode, making it a silicon all-solid-state battery.

National solar carriers continue partnership to breakthrough Colorado's clean energy shift, provide fair access to budget-friendly renewable energy

The European Investment Bank (EIB) on Monday announced commitments of USD 100 million (EUR 97m) to Alcazar Energy Partners II, a fund that will invest in renewable resource projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and also Central Asia.

Solarwatt GmbH, based in Dresden, Germany, is launching a successor model of its "vision 60M construct" glass-glass solar module with general building inspectorate approval (abZ) from the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt). The module comes with a 30-year product and performance warranty.