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Auditor obstructs solar developer accounts over missing out on down payments
State-owned solar firm Panda Green will certainly miss out on Friday's due date for releasing its audited numbers for in 2015 as well as brand-new proprietors Beijing Energy have actually revealed the development of a board to examine the repayment of $144 million in down payments to protect advancement legal rights for projects which never ever occurred.
May 13, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, China, Hong Kong, Asia, Panda Green, Beijing Energy
Surrey introduces fast-charging super-capacitor modern technology
Specialists from the University of Surrey think their desire for tidy power storage space is an action more detailed after they introduced their ground-breaking super-capacitor modern technology that has the ability to supply and also keep electrical power at high power prices, specifically for mobile applications.
May 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, UK, Europe, University of Surrey, Ash Stott, Ravi Silva, Polyaniline
Lightsource bp Partners up for 300 MW Solar Project in Colorado
McCarthy Building Companies has been called by Lightsource bp as the EPC Contractor for the 300 MW Bighorn Solar project in Colorado
Aug 13, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Colorado, Lightsource BP, North America, Kevin Smith, International, solar projects
French start-up strategies 16 GWh battery manufacturing facility
Verkor plans to establish a battery fab, with manufacturing to begin in 2023. The scale might get to 50 GWh, relying on the dynamism of the fixed storage space as well as electrical lorry markets.
Aug 20, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, Start-up, Verkor, Diego Pavia
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
Solar hails victory as Victoria u-turns to ramp up rebate support
Victoria’s state government has yielded to industry pressure and increased the frequency and number of rebates available in its rooftop solar subsidy programme.
Aug 29, 2019 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Rooftop PV, Victoria, Australia, rooftop, John Grimes, Oceania, subsidies, smart energy council
Coating could lead to commercial lithium-metal batteries
A new coating developed by scientists at Stanford promises to bring lithium metal batteries ‘closer to reality’, by significantly extending their operational lifetime and limiting the occurrence of dendrites at the anode, which can cause short circuiting and fires.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, California, USA, battery, North America, Stanford University, SLAC, Lithium metal, Zhiao Yu, Yi Cui
Solar-plus-storage for social housing
U.K. nonprofit organization Together Housing is launching a solar-plus-storage demonstration project in a social housing complex. The $2.4 million pilot is designed to identify alternative commercial models for residential storage, following the abrupt reduction of feed-in tariff rates.
Sep 20, 2019 // Commercial, Residential, Storage, UK, Europe, solar-plus-storage, ESIF, Patrick Berry
The ideal angle for e-skin energy storage
Products researchers Sungwon Lee and also Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the manufacture process with colleagues in Korea. A trick for success is splashing a specific quantity of graphene ink onto flexible substratums at a certain angle and temperature.
Oct 15, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Korea, DGIST, Graphene, Sungwon Lee, Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli
These Transparent Solar Cells Can Produce Power Under Low-Light Issues
These clear solar cells can be utilized for glass structures, electrical cars, sensors, and mobile phones
Nov 11, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, Asia, Korea, Incheon National University













