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HoloSolis secures €220m, advances 5-GW French solar gigafactory financing round
HoloSolis raised €220 million and added two investors to push its planned 5-GW French PV cell-module gigafactory toward realization.
Nov 18, 2025 // Manufacturing News, France, Europe, financing, solar manufacturing, gigafactory, HoloSolis
What is Peak load coverage?
Refers to covering a short-time high demand for electricity in the electrical grid, resulting in a phase of extremely high load. To cover this maximum load,
Sep 13, 2023
Highly efficient as well as stable double layer solar cell developed
Solar cells transform light into energy, but they can be inefficient and at risk to the atmosphere, deteriorating with, paradoxically, too much light or other variables, including dampness and also low temperature level. An international study team has established a brand-new sort of solar cell that can both stand up to environmental dangers and is 26.7% efficient in power conversion.
Aug 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, South Korea, Asia, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, kaist, Byungha Shin
Solar plus the snow
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in the United States are working to measure the results of bountiful snowfall on PV systems as well as to identify affordable methods to alleviate energy losses as well as integrity problems triggered by snow and ice.
Feb 7, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, bifacial modules
JA Solar Attains New Innovation in Module Power Result
JA Solar has actually mentioned that power result of its high-efficiency solar components under typical screening problems has actually established brand-new market document getting to over 525W
May 12, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, JA Solar, pv modules, Trina Solar, Jin Baofang, International, Output
A very performing transistor based on an inorganic metal halide perovskite
Transistors are digital components that intensify as well as control the flow of electricity inside many existing electronic devices. Researchers at Pohang University of Science and also Technology and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have actually just recently developed and realized high-performance transistors using CsSnI3, a metal halide perovskite.
Mar 25, 2022 // Technology, perovskite, Pohang University of Science and Technology, the University of Electronic Science, Technology of China, Yong-Young Noh
Qatar solar testing facility ‘open for business’
After more than six years of scientific and technical research efforts in the solar sector, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) is now targeting a major role in the industry itself.
Sep 9, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, pv modules, Asia, Qatar, r&d, qeeri, testing, Dr. Veronica Bermudez Benito
New Lithium Batteries by WECO
WECO is a middle east based tech company that has recently unveiled a lithium battery solution that offers dual voltage without any hardware change. It can operate as low voltage when placed in parallel and serves as high voltage when placed in series.
Feb 26, 2021 // Storage, Weco, lithium batteries
Seraphim releases 440 W shingled module
The half-cell module has a 20.81% performance as well as is made up of 158.75 mm mono PERC cells.
May 6, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, PV module, seraphim
Researchers develop reliable perovskite-based afterglow material
A worldwide research study group, led by Dr. Yang Bin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has actually created cadmium (Cd)-based perovskite solitary crystals with long afterglow and also high luminous quantum return, as well as explored its afterglow luminescence dynamics mechanism.
Dec 2, 2022 // Technology, perovskite, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, DICP, Yang Bin
Breakthrough in Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Discover the breakthrough findings of two new studies about highly efficient tandem solar cells using perovskite-silicon: a phosphonic acid additive to improve crystallization and an ionic liquid to enhance charge extraction, reaching up to 31.2% and 32.5% power conversion efficiencies.
Jul 7, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, solar efficiency, Xin Yu Chin
Breakthrough 2D Layer Boosts Perovskite Solar Cell Stability
MIT and global researchers boost solar tech with a novel 2D interlayer, achieving 25.9% efficiency and enhanced stability in perovskite solar cells.
Jul 25, 2025 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, MIT
Big money for Turkey’s 500 MW solar factory
With the Turkish government having given Kalyon Enerji another three years to build the 500 MW facility it won a tender to construct with former partner Hanwha Q Cells, Ankara has now committed a $333 million “super incentive” to the fab.
Sep 6, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Asia, Kalyon Enerji, Eren Engur, Hanwha Q Cells, Turkey
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Construction starts on 9-MW solar project under new TVA distributed generation program
BrightRidge, Silicon Ranch and also the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) broke ground Tuesday morning on a brand-new solar farm in western Washington County, Tennessee. The 9-MWac center will certainly be called the Martin Solar Farm in honor of the late Ralph Martin, that served for years as supervisor of the neighborhood power firm.
Jun 9, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Silicon Ranch, tva, Solar Project, Doug Perry, Tennessee Valley Authority, BrightRidge, Jeff Dykes, Matt Kisber, Diana Harshbarger