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IndianOil to produce non-lithium EV batteries
The state-run fossil fuel giant has partnered with an unnamed foreign start-up to produce electric vehicle batteries using raw materials easily available in India.
Aug 29, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Storage, Transport, India, Asia, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, electric vehicle, EV batteries
Heineken as well as Iberdrola to provide 100% sustainable electrical energy by 2020
Heineken Spain and also power service provider Iberdrola are collaborate to provide 100% eco-friendly electrical energy to Heineken's Spanish breweries as well as workplaces by October 2020. The lasting power acquisition arrangement (PPA) with Iberdrola belongs to Heineken's objective to run 100% carbon neutral by 2023.
Feb 18, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Iberdrola, PV plant, Europe, heineken, Ángeles Santamaria, Guillaume Duverdier
Building starts on 50 MW PV plant in Togo
The 50 MW Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed photovoltaic power plant is located in the Blitta region. The plant is being developed by Amea Togo Solar - a subsidiary of Amea Power, a worldwide renewables developer based in the United Arab Emirates.
Feb 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, United Arab Emirates, Africa, Togo, Mohammed Bin Zayed
ABB announces an AI-based industrial energy consumption forecasting app
A new machine learning algorithm added to ABB’s software platform allows industrial consumers to avoid peak hour costs with no need of battery storage. Zurich-based corporation has developed two applications for its energy forecasting software assisted by an AI specialist.
Nov 11, 2019 // Storage, Software, ABB, Zurich, Verdigris Technologies
Hanergy sets up a new solar cell efficiency record
Chengdu R&D Center of Hanergy has established a new conversion efficiency record for silicon heterojunction cells.
Nov 20, 2019 // Technology, Asia, Hanergy, SHJ, silicon cell
LBIC: Seeing solar potential
Digital imagery with laser lighting has been utilized to quantify a solar cell's performance for a while through a procedure called light beam induced current (LBIC) mapping. But, because of the serial nature of image processing, it has not been easy to do fast. Danish start-up InfinityPV states it has used a method which can expedite the LBIC rate by over 10 million times.
Dec 12, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, solar panel, LBIC
1366 Technologies Adds $18m in its Quest to Obtain Cheaper Solar Cells
1366 technollogy investing so much to ensure that they spend less time forming wafer with the use of molten silicon.
Dec 20, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, solar cell, wafer, North America, 1366 technollogy
Tesla Kicks of Plan to Hide ‘Solar Test-house’ in Tents at Its California Site
CNBC has discovered that Tesla was given a building permit that will let the company to attach two canopy covers above their solar test sites. at the beginning of this year, Elen Musk had made it public that 2019 will be the year of solar roofs.
Dec 21, 2019 // Technology, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Rooftop PV, TESLA, CNBC, Elen Musk
Puerto Rico concerns RFP for 1.5 GW renewables as well as energy storage
The island of Puerto Rico has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to build 1GW of renewable energy capacity as well as 500MW of battery power storage on the island.
Feb 24, 2021 // Plants, Storage, USA, North America, Puerto Rico, request for proposals, caribbean solar, solar and storage, renewables and storage, Ricardo Rosselló
Perovskite solar cells surpass 25% power-conversion effectiveness
Perovskites are hybrid compounds that can be made from metal halides as well as natural components. Their appealing structural and electronic homes have placed them at the center of materials' research, with massive possibility for transforming a wide range of applications, consisting of in solar cells, LED lights, lasers, as well as photodetectors.
Apr 21, 2021 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, efficiency, Michael Grätzel
SNEC 2021: Seraphim eyes growth in Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe
Module manufacturer Seraphim is aiming to improve a string of recent supply deals to further rise shipments to markets accross Southeast Asia, Australia as well as Europe.
Jun 7, 2021 // Manufacturing News, seraphim, Polaris Li, seraphim solar, module supply, SNEC 2021
US designer Redeux Energy eyes 2GW solar as well as storage pipe
United States renewables developer Redeux Energy Partners is on track to develop a 2GW pipe of utility-scale solar as well as storage projects in the following 12 to 18 months after protecting funding.
Oct 7, 2021 // Plants, Storage, USA, North America, Redeux Energy, Rob Masinter
Encore Renewable Energy completes two brownfield solar projects in Vermont
Encore Renewable Energy and Vermont Electric Cooperative introduced the commissioning of two new solar projects consisting of 4.5 MW of new, clean power generation in Jericho, Vermont.
Nov 9, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Encore Renewable Energy, Chad Farrell, Solar Project
US programmer Geenex Solar bags financing to advance PV as well as energy storage pipe
Utility-scale solar programmer Geenex Solar has secured additional financing that will certainly allow it to progress a pipeline of more than 8GW of PV and energy storage space projects in the United States Southeast and Midwest.
Dec 15, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, PJM, North America, geenex solar, EnergyStorageUS, New Energy Capital
US energy align Mammoth solar PPA
360MW project is part of the 1.65 GW Mammoth project being developed by Doral in Indiana
Aug 10, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Indiana, Solar Project, AEP Energy, Greg Hall, Mammoth Solar