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Power prices boosted 83% y-o-y in 2021 driving up Foresight Solar's revenue
High power prices aided bolster Foresight Solar Fund's economic outcomes for 2021, the firm validated yesterday (9 March).
Mar 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Foresight Solar Fund, Ross Driver
Tesla now declares 'lowest cost for house solar'-- yet process is 'packed with mistakes'
Tesla has actually annihilated its solar company from installation optimals of years past and also its market share lead has long been surrendered to Sunrun and also others. In December, it declared it would certainly set up 1,000 building-integrated solar roof coverings weekly-- a figure it has not come close to attaining in 6 months. Is this any way to run a solar company?
Jun 22, 2020 // Residential, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, North America
US mounted a lot more solar in Q1 2020 than in the past
The record-setting quarter was driven by virtually 2 GW of utility-scale solar, supplemented by another 1.6 GW of residential capacity. As well as while the pandemic will slow the market in 2020, five-year estimates are solid, especially for Texas.
Jul 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America
South Korea bets on tandem solar technologies
The South Korean federal government has actually released a new roadmap to support R&D activities in the solar industry. The paper shows the country's solar manufacturing market might be motivated to go with high-efficiency and also pricey panels based upon tandem solar cells.
Sep 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, South Korea, solar cells, Asia, MOTIE
Sungrow Bags Inverter Solution Contract for 800 MW Solar Project in Qatar
Sungrow has announced that it perseverance the 800 MW Al Kharsaa solar project in Qatar with featured 1500V string inverter SG250HX.
Oct 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Sungrow, Marubeni, Total, Kahramaa, International, Inverter Contract, Projects Solar, James Wu, Yu Hao
Scatec Solar to get hydropower developer, proclaims floating solar possibility
Scatec Solar has actually struck a US$ 1.1 billion bargain to obtain leading hydropower developer SN Power, proclaiming the capacity for floating solar on hydro storage tanks.
Oct 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, Scatec Solar, floating PV, m&a, sn power, norfund, utility-scale solar,, hydro power,
Learnings From the $12 billion Brookfield Bid For Australia's Origin Energy
Global investment administration firm Brookfield's $11.8 billion bid that is also sustained by the target firm's board is a clear indicator of the volume as well as direction of money chasing renewable energy assets and growth. Origin energy, which has 4.5 million customrs in Australia, has comitted to a phase out of its non renewable assets.
Nov 11, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, energy transition, Origin Energy, Brookfield, australia energy market, legislative commitment to emissions reductions, renewable energy bid
University of Sydney's project with SunDrive on commercializing perovskite-silicon cells secures ARENA funding
University of Sydney's Professor Anita Ho-Baillie is joining forces with Sydney-based renewable technology firm SunDrive to commercialize perovskite-silicon cells, with support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) of AUD$ 2.78 million (over USD$ 1.9 million).
Jan 4, 2023 // Technology, Anita Ho-Baillie, University of Sydney, perovskite-silicon cells, David McKenzie, Jianghui Zheng, Arafat Mahmud
Sunrun Targets $365M with Solar-Storage Securitisation
Sunrun secures $365 million in its latest securitisation, boosting residential solar and battery systems across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Clean energy financing takes a giant leap forward!
Sep 18, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Sunrun, North America
Portugal's Renewables Surge to 73% Power Supply
Portugal's renewable energy soared to 73% of electricity needs in early 2024, led by hydropower and wind. A greener future is on the horizon!
Oct 2, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Portugal, Europe
Largest solar power stations in Qatar
Top biggest solar photovoltaic power stations in Qatar. (Updated October 2024)   Solar power stations, PV farms 2024 in
Oct 9, 2024
Don’t have a node for your solar plant? Connect it to the railway!
Railway operators can now feasibly connect solar plants to traction substations, claims a consortium that is now working on a similar demonstration project in the U.K. Almost all of the 30 kW installation’s output will be used to move trains, but in the future storage could come into the picture for larger “railway-connected” solar power projects, says 10:10, the U.K.-based climate change charity that developed the pilot.
Aug 6, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, U.K., Aldershot, railway system, Leo Murray, Riding Sunbeams, Great Britain
Flixbus fleet examinations 18% CIGS panels
After announcing plans to test hydrogen fuel cell buses in November, the European coach travel route planning start-up has begun a pilot project to reduce diesel consumption by using solar panels on the vehicles of its partner companies. FlixBus says the ultra-thin, lightweight CIGS modules help save 1.7 litres of diesel per 100km.
Feb 11, 2020 // Transport, Germany, Europe, CIGS panels, Flixbus
Pacifico Energy Commences Work on 111 MW Solar Plant in Japan
Pacifico Energy has actually revealed that it has start of building of a 111.055 MW (DC) solar energy plant in the Wakayama Prefecture of Japan.
Feb 25, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Japan, Asia, Pacifico Energy, solar plant, International
Planned 48 MW Netherlands solar plant could be an additional solar freeway
It is unclear whether panels will certainly line the Rijksweg 59 freeway or be sited alongside a stretch of it. UK oil titan Shell is intending the setup as part of a renewables gather to additionally include wind power.
Mar 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Netherlands, shell, Marcel Willemsen