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New South Wales Govt's First Auction Underway for 12 GW RE Zones
This exercise is the very first in a collection of bi-annual tenders over one decade to replace retiring coal fired power stations with modern-day electricity infrastructure.
NSW is targeting the construction of 12 gigawatts of renewable resource by 2030.
Oct 12, 2022 // Storage, Policy, Australia, tender, Oceania, new south wales, Matt Kean, rez, Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone, Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap, Minister for Energy
Hydrogen-powered bicycles offer new electromobility concept
With the 200 hydrogen bikes offered to journalists and world leaders at the G7 summit in Biarritz proving popular, manufacturer Pragma Industries has received an order for 1,000 of them from Chilean president Sebastian Pinera. The company’s founder, Pierre Forté, wants the bike to have a societal impact in developing countries.
Sep 4, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Storage, Transport, Solar to Fuel, Lithium-ion batteries, Toyota, France, Europe, hydrogen, Daimler, hydrogen-fueled cars, Pierre Forté, Pragma Industries, Sebastian Pinera, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Organic Solar Cells Set New World Record
Research team at Fraunhofer ISE has developed a layer to boost the efficiency of organic solar cells. This could be a major step towards making renewable energy more accessible and cost effective.
Jul 19, 2023 // Technology, Germany, Europe, Fraunhofer ISE, organic solar cell, efficiency
New method might just print perovskite LEDs
Microelectronics make use of numerous useful materials whose buildings make them appropriate for certain applications. For instance, transistors and also data storage devices are made from silicon, and also a lot of photovoltaic cells utilized for creating electricity from sunlight are additionally currently made of this semiconductor material.
Jun 17, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, perovskite LEDs, Emil List-Kratochvil
New batteries to allow EVs drive longer
Korean scientists are studying a lithium-air battery to improve the discharge capacity and durability of the device, which would allow e-vehicles to cover long distances without recharging.
Jan 13, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Korea, e-vehicles, lithium-air battery
Swiss scientists reveal brand-new perovskite procedure
A team of researchers at Switzerland's Federal Laboratories for Materials Science as well as Technology (EMPA) has actually shown a brand-new production procedure, based upon port pass away finishing, for the manufacturing of perovskite thin-film solar cells. The research laboratory has actually produced tiny perovskite components utilizing this procedure as well as has strategies to relocate right into the field-testing stage later on this year.
Apr 7, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, perovskite, Switzerland, WORLD, EMPA
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
STEAG to build new Italian solar park
17MW plant is being constructed on a previous quarry website for KGAL
Jan 27, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Italy, Europe, SENS, STEAG Solar Energy Solutions, KGAL, Michael Ebner
Growatt launches brand-new off-grid inverter
Chinese inverter producer Growatt has actually launched its second-generation off-grid inverter, featuring a solar input voltage of as much as 250V.
Aug 30, 2021 // Inverters, inverter, Growatt, off-grid
New Greek JV targets 750MW solar drive
Macquarie's Cero Generation and Greek renewables equip Wattcrop form partnership
Jul 12, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Greece, Europe, macquarie, Green Investment Group, Nikolaj Harbo, Ypatios Moysiadis
Exactly how the brand-new generation of 500 W panels will certainly form the solar market
With 3 designs of 500 W photovoltaic panels formally introduced, below's a consider what it suggests for the future of project growth as well as the solar market at large.
Mar 6, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Solar Panels, Risen Energy, Trina Solar, North America, Barry Cinnamon, Matt Kesler
New inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite subcells that are both efficient and stable
All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions developed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving greater efficiencies than conventional single-junction solar cells. Up until now, nevertheless, a lot of proposed all-perovskite tandem cells have actually not achieved the preferred power conversion performances (PCEs), usually because of difficulties associated with developing ideal narrow- and wide-bandgap subcells.
May 2, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, Hairen Tan, Nanjing University, University of Toronto
Yearly EU solar PV deployment reaches brand-new high of 25.9 GW.
The European Union's (EU) solar PV market has actually navigated a year besieged by supply chain disruptions and module prices hikes to post record levels of yearly deployment, according to research from SolarPower Europe (SPE).
Dec 16, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Grids, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, Hungary, Europe, Netherlands, Denmark, European Union, deployment statistics, spe
New Green Hydrogen Plant Construction in La Robla, Northern Spain Announced by Naturgy & Enagas
Naturgy and Enagas Renovable are investing €485m in the Robla Hub JV to install up to 280 MW of green hydrogen production capacity in La Robla, northern Spain, powered by solar PV plants.
Feb 15, 2023 // Solar to Fuel, Spain, Europe, Naturgy, green hydrogen, Enagas Renovable
Gujarat expands bidding for 110 MW grid-connected solar and drifts new 210 MW tender
Developers now have till September 23 to lodge bids for the 110 MW purchase round as well as can throw their hat right into the ring for a new tender in the area of Jamnagar which closes on October 5.
Sep 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, tender, Asia, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited