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Root-Power Plans 315 MW Battery Storage Expansion in UK
Root-Power is revolutionizing the UK energy landscape with six cutting-edge battery projects, including a flagship site that could power 200,000 homes—ushering in a sustainable future!
Oct 17, 2024 // Storage, UK, Europe, Root-Power
Engie Launches 18 MW Solar Parks in Ireland
Engie SA is paving the way for Ireland's renewable future with three solar farms, empowering 4,100 homes and enriching local communities through dedicated support funds.
Nov 7, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ireland, Europe, Engie SA, Solar Park
Historic Solar Initiative: 52 Billion Panels Transform America
Revolutionizing energy: 52 billion solar panels could transform highways into clean energy powerhouses, drastically slashing carbon emissions and inspiring global sustainability innovations.
Sep 9, 2024 // Plants, USA, solar panel, North America
What is Spinning reserve?
Generating station or utility capacity online, running at low power in addition to actual load.     ← Back to Solar Energy Glossary
Sep 13, 2023
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
Summit Ridge Energy completes 2.5-MW community solar project in Maryland
Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) as well as Cedar Ridge Community Church held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 30 to celebrate the completion of a 2.5 MWdc community solar project in Montgomery County, Maryland.
May 2, 2022 // Plants, USA, North America, Maryland, Solar Project, summit ridge energy
NUS Scientists Invent World Record-Breaking Solar Cells
NUS scientists have achieved a world record of 24.35% power conversion efficiency in perovskite solar cells, paving the way for a more efficient, cheaper and durable energy source. This groundbreaking research has potential to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and secure the world's energy future.
Jun 22, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, efficiency, NUS
Dimension Secures $237M for 120-MW Solar Portfolio
Dimension Renewable has secured financing of USD 237 million to construct 28 distributed generation solar projects across the US. The projects, with a total capacity of 120-MW DC, will provide power to over 12,000 households, with more than half being low-to-moderate income households, by 2021.
Sep 12, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Dimension
"Cheaper than Tap Water": Solar-Powered Desalination
Discover the most cost-effective solar desalination system ever developed. Learn how this new system can make drinking water more accessible and affordable around the world.
Oct 3, 2023 // Technology, MIT
New antenna for a better photon harvest
An Italian research team has developed a device that it says can easily be integrated into a PV cell, and can boost its efficiency by converting more light particles into a high energy state before they are absorbed by the cell. The scientists claim that their innovation could offer a green‐to‐blue photon upconversion yield as high as 15%.
Oct 7, 2019 // Technology, Italy, Europe, PV cell, Angiolina Comotti
Machine-learning for PV module cleaning
French researchers have actually established a machine-learning model to clean low-power PV projects and also standalone solar arrays in backwoods separated from the grid.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, France, Europe, PV module cleaning
Best membrane for vanadium redox flow batteries
A new research paper takes a look at the membrane layers used for applications in vanadium redox flow batteries. It outlines various membrane layer modern technologies as well as the obstacles to bringing batteries to mass production.
Sep 22, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Europe, Netherlands, vanadium redox flow batteries
A strategy to boost the effectiveness of solar cells based upon thin-film bifacial Cu( In, Ga) Se2.
To tackle international warming, designers have actually been trying to create increasingly innovative technologies that can generate as well as keep electric energy more sustainably. One of the most renowned among these technologies are solar cells, gadgets based on photovoltaic or pv products that can convert solar radiation into electricity.
Dec 23, 2022 // Technology, solar cell, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, University of Cantabria, Shih-Chi Yang
What are Grid lines?
Metallic contacts connected to a photovoltaic cell’s surface for creating low-resistance paths for electrons to move to interconnect wires of a
Sep 12, 2023
JinkoSolar lands 150MW Cambodia solar supply deal
Leading module manufacturer JinkoSolar is to supply 150MW worth of its high-efficiency Cheetah solar panels for projects in Cambodia.
Jan 7, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, JinkoSolar, Asia, Cambodia, south east asia