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Old Pits Become Green Energy Goldmines with Floating Solar
Floating Solar Panels are revolutionizing renewable energy in Europe, with Baywa r.e. leading the way. Governments, businesses, and utilities now offer subsidies to promote floatovoltaics, providing benefits such as sidestepping land disputes and improving water quality. Projects in Austria and Germany are generating enough energy to power thousands of homes. With red tape and environmental assessments now in place, installation is becoming faster and easier.
Aug 3, 2023 // Floating PV, Europe, baywa r.e.
France verifies COVID-19 solar respite in the middle of flurry of public auction outcomes
The French federal government has actually officially transferred to assist environment-friendly power programmers versus the COVID-19 situation, alleviating public auction policies as it granted numerous brand-new tender agreements.
Apr 2, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, pv power plants, auctions, Europe, residential, rooftop PV, tenders, Coronavirus, covid-19, ground-mount pv
Adjusting solar power innovation to discover chemical war agents and also pesticides
In a vibrant service to an unsafe trouble, Australian researchers are adapting a component from advanced solar cells to make a rapid, light-based detection system for lethal toxins.
Mar 4, 2021 // Technology, Australia, solar cells, Oceania, CSIRO, Wenping Yin of Monash University, Perovskite nanocrystals
Research discovers plants would certainly expand well in solar cell greenhouses
A recent research reveals that lettuce can be grown in greenhouses that strain wavelengths of light used to generate solar power, demonstrating the usefulness of using transparent photovoltaic panels in greenhouses to produce electrical power.
Mar 22, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, Brendan O'Connor, North Carolina State University, Harald Ade, Heike Sederoff
Saudi Luxury Resort Secures $1.5B Renewable Energy Hub
Discover the $1.5 billion renewable infrastructure revolution powering Amaala resort—featuring solar energy, advanced storage, and sustainable water solutions, set to reshape luxury in Saudi Arabia.
Nov 1, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Saudi Arabia, Asia
China Bets on Egypt’s Solar and Battery Hub
Chinese-backed solar and battery plants in Egypt target MENA–Europe exports, riding port logistics and incentives to localize supply chains, train talent, and spark EV, storage, and green hydrogen growth.
Jan 20, 2026 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Africa, Egypt
Energy Materials Corporation to help scale-up creation of perovskite solar PV panels
Energy Materials Corporation reports that the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office has chosen EMC to progress perovskite photovoltaic module development and research.
Dec 11, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, PV panels, perovskite, Energy Materials Corporation, Energy Solar Energy Technologies
Renovalia nails financing for Spain’s first merchant PV project
The €29.7 million financing package was awarded by Banco Sabadell. Renovalia’s 79.2 MW solar park will be Spain’s first PV facility to sell all of its output on the spot market.
Aug 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Solar, Spain, PV plants, pv modules, Renovalia, Banco Sabadell, El Bonal, Europe
Solar cells with holes pierced in them can be used as windows
UNIST researchers have discovered how to let light through photovoltaic panels. They have made dense micro-holes in a cell, which makes it seen as fully transparent and suitable for window application.
Dec 12, 2019 // Technology, PV panels, Asia, Korea, solar sells, UNIST
Juwi to decarbonise Egyptian gold mine with solar-storage project
German developer as well as EPC specialist juwi has actually secured a deal to layout, supply as well as construct a solar-storage hybrid project at an off-grid gold mine in Egypt.
May 5, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Grids, Asia, Africa, Egypt, decarbonisation, mines, juwi, solar-storage, north africa, off grid, Dave Manning
Spanish firm Aresol proposes 360 MW of solar projects in Spain's wine region
Spanish renewables designer Aresol is promoting 9 solar farm projects with an incorporated capacity of around 360 MW in La Rioja, a famed wine area in northern Spain.
Nov 23, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, Solar Project, Aresol
China's Solar Shake-Up: Batteries Boom, Solar Woes
China is dramatically changing its power system to boost battery profits and reduce solar payments. 20 provinces and regions have adopted electricity rate regimes that will likely affect solar's economic outlook. With improved economics, China is expected to triple energy storage installations this year. Meanwhile, Australia is pressing China to remove trade impediments concerning live lobster and red meat.
Dec 11, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, China, Asia
China’s Solar Makers Signal Progress Amid Losses And Overcapacity Shakeout
Bloomberg reports Chinese solar manufacturers remain loss-making but see signs of stabilization as the industry works through severe overcapacity.
Aug 26, 2025 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Policy, China, Asia, overcapacity, pv module price
Clarifying ideal products for gathering sunshine undersea
There might be lots of ignored not natural as well as natural products that could be utilized to harness sunshine undersea and also successfully power self-governing completely submersible automobiles, record scientists at New York University. Their study, releasing March 18 in the journal Joule, establishes standards for optimum band void worths at a variety of watery midsts, showing that numerous wide-band void semiconductors, instead of the narrow-band semiconductors utilized in standard silicon solar cells, are best furnished for undersea usage.
Mar 20, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Jason A. Rohr
Controlling perovskite ions' composition paves the way for tool applications
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (* 1) have obtained much attention as possible future generation solar cells and also as materials for light-emitting devices.
Nov 16, 2020 // Technology, Japan, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, efficiency, TACHIKAWA Takashi











