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Octopus Investments Australia raises AUD 250 million for its renewable energy fund, OASIS. With contributions from Hostplus, CEFC and Sky Renewables, plus a new investor Rest, total funds raised now stand at AUD 550 million. Octopus manages a platform of assets worth AUD 1 billion.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, JA Solar has supplied 33.1MW of mono-PERC panels to Ukraine-based project developer, UDP Renewables for the Scythia-Solar-2 PV power plant in the Zaporizhia region of the country.

Anesco is making its worldwide launching with 2 more significant tasks for Shell New Energies-- its first venture outside the UK. The two solar parks in the Netherlands will certainly have an integrated capability of 26 MW. Anesco previously partnered with Shell New Energies on a battery storage job in the UK.

Australia's major scientific study organisation, the CSIRO, has actually relied on solar to power its operations in Victoria, NSW and the ACT, through a long-term energy contract with the Ross Garnaut-led merchant Zen Energy.

California-headquartered PV Evolution Labs (PVEL), an independent test laboratory for the downstream solar and also power storage space market, recently published its 2021 PV Module Reliability Scorecard, which names 117 design types of PV modules from 26 suppliers as Top Performers in PVEL's testing.

UK solar and also battery storage designer Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) on Monday stated it has actually gotten preparing authorization for its 26-MWp Attleborough solar park near Norwich, Norfolk.

A global study group has developed a carbon-based perovskite solar cell without a hole transportation layer. 2 plasmonic nanoparticles-- Ag@SiO2 and also SiO2@Ag@SiO2-- were included in the cell photoactive layer, in addition to a copper( I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) interlayer at the perovskite-carbon interface.

Spanish renewable power and gas distributor Audax Renovables SA (BME: ADX) has actually started construction of five solar farms in Guadalajara province, Spain, to install a total of 25.99 MWp across the projects.

Colombian oil significant Ecopetrol SA (NYSE: EC) on Friday announced the commissioning of a 26-MWp solar farm in Huila, a self-supply project developed to power its oil fields in the southern Colombia department.

Lynher Energy has actually obtained a 26.1-MW solar project in Shropshire in the West Midlands area of England from Low Carbon Alliance Ltd and proprietor Cheswell Grange, it was revealed today.

The super-hydrophobic layer utilizing functional nanoparticles drives away dust deposition on the photovoltaic panels and cleans itself by the activity of water on the modules.

Solar maker LONGi has laid claim to a brand-new cell effectiveness record for a gallium-doped p-type heterojunction PV cell.

US-based wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies has merged with Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT), with the combined firm preparing to offer market tandem modules.

National Taiwan University and Taiwanese PV manufacturing equipment supplier E-Sun Precision Industrial Co. have created tools to generate various type of perovskite cells with varying chemical structures. The first trials achieved 14.3% conversion efficiency prices.

QD Solar announces 24% efficiency for spin-coated perovskite cells and 23.2% efficiency for slot-die coated cells. These certified numbers have been developed for large scale manufacturing.