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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
Lighting the path to recycling carbon dioxide
Semiconductive photocatalysts that effectively soak up solar energy might help reduce the energy called for to drive a bioelectrochemical procedure that transforms CO2 emissions into valuable chemicals, KAUST scientists have revealed.
Oct 7, 2020 // Technology, recycling, KAUST, Bin Bian
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
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
Fabric-based solar cells on the horizon
New textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment. In short, textile-based solar cells could soon be adding a whole new dimension to photovoltaics, complementing the use of conventional silicon-based solar cells.
Aug 5, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Solar, Germany, Fraunhofer, textile-based solar cells, Europe
Keesler Air Force Base breaks ground on 1.5-MW solar carport
Design-build company NORESCO has broken ground for a 1.5-MW solar carport at Keesler Air Force Base (AFB) in Mississippi, part of a $32.7 million guaranteed energy savings performance contract (ESPC).
Aug 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, NORESCO, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, ESPC, Marcia Quigley, Shawn Walsh
A long way to opt for iron pyrite solar cells
A paper from Sweden has attempted to discover why the conversion performance of solar cells based upon cheap, abundant iron pyrites continues to suffer below 3% despite the evident optoelectronic guarantee of the material.
Jun 15, 2020 // Technology, Sweden, solar cells, Europe, Uppsala University
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
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
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
Construction kicks off at 99MW/198MWh UK battery storage site
Job has started at a battery storage space site admired as the largest of its kind under construction in the UK by designers Harmony Energy as well as Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV).
Sep 7, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Harmony Energy, David Menéndez
Huawei Picked For 390 MWp Solar Project in Poland
Huawei was recently picked by R.Power Group, among the largest gamers in the Polish PV market, to provide 390 MWp of its world-leading smart string inverters for many solar projects in Poland.
Feb 21, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Huawei, r.power, Przemek Pieta, Maciej Bąkała, poland solar plants, SUN2000 105KTL-H1, SUN2000 185KTL-H1, SUN2000 215KTL-H0
Spanish Company Licenses its Patented 'Continuous String' Process
Spain-based Mondragon Assembly has obtained a licensing arrangement for its license for "continuous string" process, which has been its intellectual property because 2013. This process includes manufacturing a continuous string, which means any type of damaging effects arising from "first" and also "last" cell can be gotten rid of, therefore increasing the device's performance by 10%, claimed the business.
Oct 6, 2021 // Manufacturing News, BATTERIES, Solar Panels, Mondragon Assembly, Basque Country machinery manufacturer