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Talk of 'globe record' as India's Adani bags 8GW, US$ 6bn solar contract
India's COVID-hit solar industry has actually gone into the international spotlight today, with a leading industry gamer securing what is being referred to as the biggest solar contract ever seen on the planet's background.
Jun 10, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, India, Asia, Adani Green Energy, Rajasthan, tenders and auctions, solar tenders
IRA to Swell United States Renewables Investment to $114 Billion: Wood Mackenzie
The report stated that a rise from $64 billion in 2022 to virtually $114 billion is expected by 2031. The report called, 'Boom time: what the Inflation Reduction Act (Act) implies for US renewables suppliers', dives in the efficiency of law when it come to equipment production growth.
Jan 20, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, USA, Wood Mackenzie, North America
Testing floating PV with tracking systems
French water management agency Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) is planning an innovative floating project to test its combination with a solar tracking system. The 250 kW project was awarded a fixed tariff in a special tender for innovative PV projects held by The French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) in February 2018. The plant will be deployed on a water surface managed by SCP in Southern France.
Jan 29, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, France, tender, floating PV, Europe, SCP
IBC solar cell with 25.0% performance
Australian researchers have exposed a new cell that improves an earlier gadget with 24.4% performance. They accomplished this 0.6% boost in performance by applying an oxide-nitride-oxide passivation pile, maximizing the diffusion and call area fraction, as well as enhancing texturing with monoTEX surfactant.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, solar cell, Oceania, efficiency, IBC
Masdar Powers Angola with 150MW Solar
Masdar joins forces with the Angolan government to create 600 jobs and power 90,000 homes--a major step towards 10 GW of clean energy capacity in Africa by 2030.
Dec 4, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Masdar, Africa, Angola, PV Power Plant
Huge solar projects are back in the United States
The variety of 100 MW-plus solar projects is swiftly raising in the U.S. And if there's one solar sector that can weather a pandemic, it's utility-scale photovoltaics.
Apr 29, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Geronimo Energy, First Solar, North America, baywa r.e., Origis Energy, ConnectGen, Caton Fenz, PV power plans, Belltown Power Texas
Roadmap Launched for Future Deployment of Energy Storage Technology
The function of power storage and also the part it will play in helping the UK reach its net-zero targets by 2050 has been laid out in a roadmap
Dec 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, EVs, University of Birmingham, Jonathan Radcliffe, David Elmes
Why Solar Energy Stocks Are Dropping Like a Rock
Investors are afraid of solar energy right now, but the long-term prospects of the industry are improving.
Oct 2, 2019 // Inverters, USA, SunPower, China, First Solar, Enphase Energy, Europe, JinkoSolar, Asia, solaredge technologies, North America
What are the advantages To Using Solar Panels?
With the proliferation of modern tech devices, the need to have a reliable power supply has been on the rise. Although most homeowners have connected their
Nov 12, 2021 // Blog
Ecological power storage battery constructed from vanillin
Researchers at TU Graz have found a way to convert the fragrant substance vanillin right into a redox-active electrolyte product for liquid batteries. The modern technology is a crucial step in the direction of environmentally sustainable energy storage space
Oct 1, 2020 // Technology, Storage, TU Graz, Stefan Spirk, Redox flow
EDF to Optimise Matrix 500-MW Scottish Battery Revenue
EDF chosen to optimise a 500MW Scotland battery portfolio, boosting returns via smart bidding, arbitrage and ancillary services—while managing degradation, SoC headroom, and Scotland’s volatile, wind-driven markets.
Mar 30, 2026 // Storage, Battery Storage, EDF, Optimisation, SCOTLAND, Matrix Renewables
Several buyers keen on REC Silicon’s Butte facility, CTO tells PV Tech
Norwegian polysilicon manufacturer REC Silicon announced last Thursday it is considering selling its silane gas facility in Butte, in the US state of Montana.
Oct 9, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Washington, polysilicon, Montana, North America, REC Silicon, trade war, silane gas, James May
Integrating IoT Technology in Solar Energy Monitoring Systems
Do you know what's the number one killer of solar system performance? According to the SolarReviews Solar Industry Survey, 52% of solar installers cite
Aug 15, 2025 // Software
Silicon heterojunction solar cell hits 23.5% performance with brand-new hole-selective get in touch with
Scientists from Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have actually utilized molybdenum oxide as the hole-selective call in an heterojuction silicon cell. The researchers declare the substance can take on conventional get in touches with in spite of a reduced degree of optimization.
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Europe, solar cell, heterojunction, silicon, Switzerland, EPFL
Improving magnesium-based batteries with disorder
Scientists have actually discovered solid anodic task in disordered fragments of magnesium chromium oxide. Unlike traditional, gotten nanocrystals, the disordered fragments supposedly accomplished relatively easy to fix magnesium removal as well as insertion.
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Storage, UK, Europe, magnesium-based batteries, Jawwad Darr