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Shell taps sonnen to pilot 'first of its kind' solar-storage tariff in the UK
Shell's power supply department has actually released a new solar and storage tariff in the UK that aims to "change" just how domestic solar installations are used.
Jul 18, 2020 // Residential, Tariffs, UK, Europe, solar-plus-storage, shell, Shell Energy, Sonnen, Colin Crooks
Seeking greater electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa: 'The future of energy may be built there'
The drive to electrify Sub-Saharan Africa will certainly need US$ 350 billion of financial investment and also might expose an alternative vision for the energy transition that concentrates on a decentralised, bottom-up solar-and-storage abundant grid that benefits from affordable solar power, according to research study company Wood Mackenzie.
Mar 21, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Wood Mackenzie, utilities, woodmac, energy transition, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, distributed generation
Trina Tracker introduces Trina Smart Cloud that can 'lower the LCOE' for solar PV projects
Trina Tracker, a company unit of Trina Solar, has actually introduced Trina Smart Cloud, a monitoring and control tracking solution that the business claimed causes much more intelligent procedure as well as maintenance (O&M) of solar PV stations.
Dec 15, 2021 // Technology, Plants, LCOE, trackers, Trina Solar, pv trackers
EIA anticipates that utility-scale solar capacity in the United States increased by 11.1 GW in 2020
The US Energy Info Administration (EIA) projections that intended additions to U.S. wind and solar creating capability in 2021 as well as 2022 will add to raising electrical energy generation from those sources.
Feb 10, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, EIA
Record 15.4 GW of utility-scale solar to find online in the US this year, EIA says
A record quantity of utility-scale PV ability is anticipated to be linked to the grid in the United States this year, with Texas audit for more than a quarter of solar enhancements, according to brand-new data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Jan 12, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Grids, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar-plus-storage, North America, EIA
Powering the future: brand-new understandings right into exactly how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells function
"When environmentally friendly, cost-effective, functional, as well as efficient solar cells are created, all thermal and also nuclear power plants will disappear, and solar cells installed over the ocean or in deep space perseverance our globe," states Professor Dong-Seon Lee of the Gwangju Institute Of Science And Technology in Korea. His extremely optimistic view of the future mirrors the visions of lots of researchers associated with the initiative to enhance solar cells.
Oct 29, 2020 // Technology, South Korea, solar cells, Asia, flexible, Dong-Seon Lee, Gwangju Institute Of Science And Technology
There's a Ton of money to Be Made in the Obscure Metals Behind Clean Power
The era-defining shift from fossil fuels to clean energy will certainly supply an unmatched brand-new boom for assets-- as well as an opportunity for financiers-- as a variety of relatively unknown materials come to be essential to supplying emissions-free power, transportation and also heavy industry.
Sep 21, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Lithium-ion batteries, China, solar pv, Asia, BloombergNEF, EV chargers, Wind Turbines
A strategy to improve the effectiveness as well as carrier lifetimes of all-inorganic perovskite solar cells
All-inorganic perovskites have actually recently confirmed to be extremely promising for the development of photovoltaics (PVs), as they could potentially accomplish better thermal stabilities than crossbreed perovskite solar cells based upon both natural and also inorganic products.
Apr 5, 2023 // Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, perovskite solar cells, Xinbo Chu
Acciona Energia signs 2 green hydrogen deals for facilities in Australia as well as the Iberian region
Acciona Energia has actually struck bargains for multiple green hydrogen centers, one with state-owned Australian energy company Stanwell Corporation as well as a joint venture with United States company Plug Power Inc. to establish multiple manufacturing sites across Spain and Portugal.
Dec 3, 2021 // Solar to Fuel, Australia, queensland, Oceania, Acciona, green hydrogen, Plug Power, export, acciona energia, accionaplug
EPFL-led group makes use of additives to improve the stability and also efficiency of perovskite solar cells
A team of scientists, led by Professor Michael Grätzel at EPFL and also Xiong Li at the Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells in Wuhan (China), have actually developed a technique that deals with stability issues of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) as well as raises their effectiveness.
Jan 23, 2023 // Technology, China, Asia, EPFL, perovskite solar cells, Michael Grätzel, Xiong Li, Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells
BayWa r.e. continues Asia-Pacific expansion and has launched a new solar system distribution business in the Philippines
German project developer for renewable energies BayWa r.e. Renewable Energy GmbH has launched a new solar systems distribution business in Makati City, the Philippines.
Nov 21, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Germany, Europe, Asia, Philippines, BayWa r.e. Renewable Energy, Daniel Gäfke
Algerian 150 MW solar tender secures final price of $0.069/kWh – and only a third of the capacity
The Algerian Electricity and Gas Regulation Commission has concluded a tender launched in June. The one solar project selected will sell power at DZD8.28/kWh. The authority reportedly only published ceiling prices for energy bids on the day the exercise was completed.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, tender, Africa, Algeria, Malek Drif, CREG, Al-Muchkat’s Drif
'A step in the wrong direction': United States utility-scale solar deployment fell 53% in Q2
US utility-scale solar installments in Q2 2022 were down 53% year-on-year as policy headwinds and trade concerns affected growth and raised the stockpile of postponed projects, a new report has actually disclosed.
Jul 28, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Policy, California, USA, PPA, Texas, Invenergy, North America, Indiana, deployment statistics, American Clean Power Association, AD/CVD
Fraunhofer ISE comes with the building of an up and down integrated 5 GW photovoltaic factory in Andalusia
German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE is supporting the newly established company "Greenland Gigafactory" in its prep work to build a highly automated manufacturing facility for photovoltaic or pv products with a capacity of 5 GW in Spain.
Apr 21, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Spain, Germany, Europe, Andalusia, Fraunhofer Institute, Jochen Rentsch, pv factory
The sunlight that powers solar panels additionally damages them ... yet 'gallium doping' is providing a service
The procedure of making gallium-doped photovoltaic panels was under a patent till last year. It's just since this approach has started to pick up vapor.
Aug 2, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Solar Panels, solar cells, Oceania, PV panel, University of New South Wales’s School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, gallium











