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Amazon Adds Record 8.3 GW of Renewables in 2022
The firm has actually made these additions via 133 new projects in 11 countries. In India, a third 200 MW wind-solar hybrid project was included in Amazon's initial two wind-solar hybrid projects.
Feb 1, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Amazon, Adam Selipsky
French Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Dismiss Bid to Freeze Wind, Solar Permits
France’s National Assembly quashes a conservative-backed moratorium on new wind and solar projects, keeping its 2030 clean-energy targets on track.
Jun 25, 2025 // Policy, France, Europe
300MW tidal flat solar project takes shape in China
The very first tranches of a 300MW utility-scale solar project improved a coastal tidal flat in China have actually been attached to the grid.
Jan 18, 2021 // Plants, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, China, Inverters, Asia, Ginlong Solis, tidal flat, tidal flat solar
What is Absorber?
Material in a PV device absorbing photons to produce charge carriers (electrons and electron holes).     ← Back to Solar Energy
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What is AC?
See alternating current     ← Back to Solar Energy Glossary
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What is Acceptor?
A doping agent, for example boron, with fewer valence electrons than needed in an elsewise balanced crystal structure, which provides a hole able to accept a
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What is Ammeter?
Device for measuring the electric current in amp units.     ← Back to Solar Energy Glossary
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What is Amortisation?
The time period required by a photovoltaic system to generate enough electricity for covering its original cost. The length of the period depends on power
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What is Anode?
Positive electrode in a recharging battery. During discharge of an electrolytic cell, electrons are flowing from a cathode to an
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What is Array?
See photovoltaic (PV) array.     ← Back to Solar Energy Glossary
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What is Atom?
The smallest particle comprising a chemical element characterized by the same properties as this element.     ← Back to Solar Energy
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What is Autotroph?
Organism that can synthesize food for itself from an inorganic substance with the help of chemical or light energy. Autotrophs include algae, plants, fungi as
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What is Backup?
Backup systems are emergency power systems switching on and providing autonomous electricity supply from the energy stored in a storage battery in case of
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What is Becquerel?
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel was a French physicist who detected the PV effect. The discovery was made in 1839 by Becquerel and his father. The scientists found
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What is Battery?
A few electrically connected electrochemical cells placed in a special container and properly arranged to produce the necessary operating current and voltage.
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