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UK capitalist agrees 175MW US PV purchase
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust buying projects from Blackstone and to take a 50% risk in Onyx Renewable Partners
Dec 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, UK, Europe, North America, SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust, SEEIT, SDCL, Jonathan Maxwell
Pollutants improve efficiency of organic solar cells
Sunshine uses a prospective service in the look for an energy resource that does not damage the planet, but this relies on discovering a method to successfully turn electro-magnetic power into electricity. Scientists from KAUST have demonstrated how a recognized herbicide can improve this conversion in natural devices.
Jan 7, 2021 // Technology, Saudi Arabia, solar cells, Asia, efficiency, KAUST, organic solar cells, Yuanbao Lin, Thomas Anthopoulos
Enphase acquires solar style as well as proposal software business Sofdesk
Enphase Energy introduced the closing of its purchase of solar style software company Sofdesk, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Sofdesk's Solargraf integrated software system uses electronic tools and solutions created to streamline and also accelerate the end-to-end sales process across the property solar market.
Jan 26, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Software, Canada, Enphase Energy, North America, Sofdesk, Lennie Moreno, Badri Kothandaraman, Jayant Somani
Solar panel installer banned in Victoria following dodgy installations
Hundreds of Victorians have been warned solar panels installed on their homes as part of a $1.3 billion rebate scheme are the work of a dodgy company using unlicensed electricians.
Oct 9, 2019 // Solar, Victoria, Community Energy Group Pty Ltd, Space Solar, Labor, Lily D'Ambrosio, Michael O'Brien
Construction underway for Panama’s self-styled largest solar plant
The utility-scale solar momentum slowly coursing through Latin America looks set to extend to one of the region’s smallest countries, with a large project now progressing through construction.
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, Europe, North America, esslatam, solarcentury, panama, inelsa, hedomin, Manuel Domínguez
A new battery mix to prevent dendrites
Scientists at the United States Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a root cause of dendrite formation, which can cause battery failure and even fires in lithium-ion technology. With this new knowledge, the group is now working on electrolyte recipes that eliminate dendrite growth entirely.
Oct 16, 2019 // Technology, USA, North America, PNNL, Chongmin Wang
Exhibitors in Dhaka upbeat about solar future
Getting on for 300 international exhibitors are attending the Solar Bangladesh Expo in Dhaka which opened today and runs until Saturday. pv magazine’s Syful Islam is walking the floors and hearing optimistic messages.
Oct 17, 2019 // Solar, rooftop PV, exelon, Dhaka, Solar Bangladesh Expo, Nahid Hasan, Kazi Atiqur Rahman, Ahsan Ullah Chowdhury, Denryo
Solar park in western Anglesey 'would ruin the area for tourism'
A big solar park planned for western Anglesey would ruin the area for tourism and occupy good farming land, a campaign group has claimed.
Oct 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Anglesey, Parc Solar Traffwll, Vaughan Evans
EDF secures a slice of UK supermarket Tesco’s corporate solar plan
The French energy giant will provide supermarket Tesco with electricity from 17 rooftop PV installations and two wind farms for a renewables portfolio generation capacity of 59 MW. The groceries retailer has announced plans to install 187 solar rooftops.
Oct 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, UK, EDF, Europe, rooftop PV, Cleantech Solar, Tesco, Jason Tarry
An Italian buys PV Proponent Renovalia from a Spanish Merchant
Spain’s renewable credentials have attracted the eye of an Italian infrastructure investor. Already, the Italian has acquired a PV Developer and the merchant projects it was working on.
Dec 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Italy, pv power plants, solar pv, Renovalia, Europe, m&a, f2i
TotalEnergies to acquire 25% risk in Adani New Industries in green hydrogen push
TotalEnergies is expanding its collaboration with Indian corporation Adani Group as they intend to provide the globe's biggest green hydrogen ecosystem in India.
Jun 14, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, green hydrogen, acquisition, adani group, oil and gas majors, TotalEnergies, Adani New Industries
Inverted perovskite solar cell with 16.94% effectiveness
A US-Chinese research group has actually developed a perovskite solar cell with a hole-transporting material (HTM) based upon carrying out polyaniline (PANI) polymer. The tool showed substantially greater performance than a referral solar cell relying on an HTM made from commonly used PEDOT: PSS.
Aug 3, 2022 // Technology, USA, North America, efficiency, perovskite solar cell
Enel to add 43GW of solar by 2030 as part of US$ 191bn strategy
Italian energy Enel will certainly invest around EUR70 billion (US$ 78 billion) by 2030 to scale up its renewables as well as energy storage portfolio as it brings forward plans to get to net zero to 2040.
Nov 24, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, ENERGY STORAGE, Enel, enel green power, energy transition, utility, EnergyStorageEU
Torrent Power Awarded 300 MW Solar PPA, Project to be Established in Gujarat
Torrent Power has been granted a long-term PPA for 300 MW capability of solar energy generation, project to find up in Gujarat.
Apr 23, 2021 // Plants, PPA, India, Asia, solar projects, Torrent Power, Torrent Power Solar PPA
Cero Generation creates JV with Wattcrop to create 750MW of solar in Greece
Cero Generation, a solar portfolio business of Macquarie's Green Investment Group, has formed a joint venture (JV) with renewables designer Wattcrop that will certainly aim to advance 750MW of PV in Greece over the next four years.
Jul 13, 2021 // Plants, Greece, Europe, macquarie, Green Investment Group, joint venture, macquarie green investment group, cero generation, Wattcrop