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SolarWindow Sets new Record by Increasing its Power Conversion Performance
SolarWindow Technologies, a programmer of clear fluid finishes and also procedures for creating electrical power on glass and also plastics, has announced that it has greater than doubled its previous certified efficiency, also achieving the highest independently-certified power conversion effectiveness of previous natural solar tools produced at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado with a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA).
Mar 31, 2021 // Technology, NREL, efficiency, International, organic photovoltaic devices, Power Conversion Efficiency, SolarWindow, James Whitaker, Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers
TÜV Rheinland examining potential for PV-powered railways
Technical advisory TÜV Rheinland has been commissioned to study the potential for solar PV to power rail facilities in Germany.
Dec 23, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Grids, Germany, Europe, Railways, tuv rheinland, solar railways
Perovskite mineral sustains solar-energy sustainability
When it involves the future of solar power cells, say farewell to silicon, and also hello there to calcium titanium oxide-- the substance mineral better known as perovskite.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, perovskite cells, Fengqi You, Cornell, Silicon pv, Xueyu Tian
e-Zinc Raises $2.3 Mn to Accelerate Commercialization of its Energy Storage Tech
e-Zinc, a Toronto-based power storage innovator, revealed today it has actually increased $2.3 million in a closed round led by BDC Capital's Cleantech Practice.
Jan 19, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Canada, North America, James Larsen, e-Zinc, BDC Capital, Seamus O’Regan, Jérôme Nycz
Duke Energy acquires its largest solar project yet
Duke Energy Renewables is expanding its solar energy portfolio by acquiring the 200-MW Holstein solar project from 8minute Solar Energy. The project, located in Nolan County, Texas, will be the largest in Duke Energy Renewables’ fleet once complete.
Jul 24, 2019 // Plants, USA, EPC, Duke Energy Renewables, Texas, O&M, SunTrust, Hauer & Feld LLP, Akin Gump, Wingate, Blattner Energy, First Solar, Solar Energy, North America, 8minute Solar Energy
Reusing next-generation solar panels promotes green earth
Tossing damaged photovoltaic panels right into garbage dumps may soon come to be electronics waste background.
Jun 26, 2021 // Technology, Solar Panels, recycling, Fengqi You, Cornell University, Roxanne E., Michael J. Zak
RENA picks up 15 GW devices order
Germany based PV tools distributor RENA Technologies has actually gotten what it calls its 'largest ever order', from a tier 1 supplier in Asia, for 15 GW of its wafer texturing tools. Financial details of the deal have not been divulged, although the business states that the order is worth "tens of numerous euros."
Sep 14, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Germany, China, Europe, Asia, Peter Schneidewind, RENA
SMA cuts sales support as a result of supply chain challenges, project pushbacks
Inverter distributor SMA Solar Technology has reduced its revenue and earnings support for the rest of the year because of the undersupply of digital components.
Sep 8, 2021 // Manufacturing News, sma solar technology, supply chain, pv central inverter, inverter manufacturing, inverter supplier
Intense pulsed light handling for 23.0%- efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells
Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have made use of extreme pulsed light (IPL) processing for the growth of a busbarless silicon heterojunction solar cell. The gadget was manufactured with poly-Si-based tunnel oxide passivating calls, which were applied on both sides of the wafer.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency
ReNew Power indications PPA for 'India's first' round-the-clock renewable energy project
Indian renewable energy firm ReNew Power has signed a power purchase arrangement (PPA) for a 400MW renewables project that will provide Round-The-Clock (RTC) electrical power supply, which the company claims is the first of its kind in India.
Aug 9, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, IPP, PPA, India, SECI, Asia, ReNew Power
Germany Launches Solar TAP to Advance Multi-Benefit PV
Harnessing the sun’s potential, Germany’s Solar TAP redefines energy with innovative PV technologies, transforming surfaces into sustainable power sources for agriculture, construction, and transport.
Aug 22, 2024 // Technology, Software, Germany, Europe
Court quits tree clearance for Tesla's recommended Berlin gigafactory
The High Administrative Court of the Brandenburg area momentarily quit primary operate at the website in Grünheide, near Berlin at the weekend break. A decision from the neighborhood management is anticipated "in a prompt fashion".
Feb 17, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Storage, TESLA, Germany, Europe
Tesla opens gigafactory in Germany
The first Model Y electric cars have rolled off the assembly line at the US electric car producer's first European factory.
Mar 24, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Transport, TESLA, Germany, Elon Musk, Europe
New product, modeling techniques promise developments in power storage space
The surge of mobile digital devices, electric automobiles, drones and other modern technologies have driven need for new light-weight products that can give the power to operate them. Researchers from the College of Houston and Texas An as well as M College have actually reported an architectural supercapacitor electrode made from reduced graphene oxide as well as aramid nanofiber that is more powerful and also extra flexible than conventional carbon-based electrodes.
Jun 5, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Haleh Ardebili
SMA reports 42% rise in turnover, Meyer Burger swings to a loss
German inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology reported strong financial results for the very first half of 2020 in spite of the Covid-19 dilemma. Meyer Burger, nevertheless, saw sales as well as profits decline.
Aug 14, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Germany, Europe, meyer burger, SMA, Jürgen Reinert










