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Germany’s power mix hits 57% renewables in nine months
Renewables met 57% of Germany’s electricity consumption in the first nine months of 2025, matching last year’s share while underscoring integration challenges ahead.
Oct 1, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, renewables, Electricity, energy policy, grid integration
MET, Keppel JV Starts 10-MWp Agri-PV in Italy
Keppel and MET Group power up a 10-MWp agrivoltaic plant in Ferrera Erbognone, fusing solar with farming to boost Italy’s clean energy and land efficiency.
Oct 15, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Italy, Europe, Keppel, MET Group
NextEnergy Capital Expands into Poland with 66-MW Purchase
NextEnergy Capital expands into Poland with 65.6 MW of renewable energy capacity, part of its fifth investment fund targeting solar and battery storage projects globally.
May 13, 2024 // Storage, Poland, Europe, NextEnergy
Energy Vault buys 150-MW/300-MWh Texas battery, eyes fast deployment
Energy Vault acquired a 150-MW/300-MWh BESS project in Madison County, Texas, positioning it for rapid build and participation in ERCOT markets.
Oct 27, 2025 // Storage, USA, Texas, Battery Storage, North America, Energy Vault, ERCOT, project acquisition
Unique PV plant style for livestock in Taiwan
Taipower is explore PV installations on grazing land for cattle, with the support of the Taiwan Council of Agriculture. The modules have actually been mounted at an elevation of 3 meters, so the cows can forage beneath them.
Aug 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Taiwan, TaiPower
Promising materials to make efficient batteries
Lithium has been considered the most attractive material for battery manufacturing for quite a while. However, the production process has a number of limitations and frequently causes accidents. So developers are in search of better options to replace lithium in battery making.
Jan 17, 2020 // Technology, Storage, hydrogen, lithium, Zinc, Sodium-sulphur
2D ingredients make perovskite solar cells much more long lasting in the Sun
The Sun is a terrific resource of power, yet obviously those rays can be harmful too. Designers in Korea have actually currently created a brand-new means to make perovskite solar cells to shield them from the components without lowering their performance.
Mar 30, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, Asia, Korea, perovskite, efficiency, kaist, Byungha Shin
A technique for changing abject perovskite in solar cells making them recyclable
A group of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has actually created a strategy for creating recyclable perovskite utilized in solar cells. In their paper released in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their technique and the effectiveness of the solar cells after they have actually been reused.
Nov 25, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Federal government should 'claw back' ₤ 1bn unspent Green Homes Grant funding, REA prompts
The Association for Renewable Energy as well as Clean Technology (REA) is calling on the government to turn around the choice to not rollover unspent Green Homes Grant financing into 2021/22.
Feb 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Nina Skorupska, REA
Sherburne County may require solar farms to be pollinator-friendly
New solar farms in Sherburne County may soon have to do more than just produce energy from the sun.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Minnesota, Sherburne, Marc Schneider, Rob Davis
Stock markets pumped $1.3bn into solar in the last quarter
Fundraising activity for solar leaped in the July-to-September period to provide healthy quarterly and year-so-far comparisons on 2018.
Oct 8, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Mercom Capital Group, bboxx, Raj Prabhu, ReNew Power
Fine-tuning thermoelectric materials for cheaper renewable energy
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new thermoelectric materials, which could provide a low-cost option for converting heat energy into electricity.
Dec 19, 2019 // Technology, Thermal, London, Queen Mary University of London, Oliver Fenwick
Efficiency record for an organic PV mini module
Organic photovoltaics has considerable benefits, such as environmentally friendly production and flexible modules.
Aug 27, 2021 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, Fraunhofer ISE, efficiency
Scientists realize perovskite-based phase heterojunction solar cells
Over the past few decades, engineers as well as material scientists have produced progressively innovative as well as effective solar innovations. Some of these innovations are based upon photovoltaics with a supposed heterojunction framework, which involves the combination of two materials with distinct optoelectronic homes.
Nov 29, 2022 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, Yana Vaynzof, Technische Universität Dresden
Solar to overtake wind in corporate renewable procurement
A new report by Wood Mackenzie and the American Wind Energy Association shows solar taking the favor of corporate renewable purchasers in 2021 and holding that crown to infinity and beyond.
Aug 22, 2019 // Solar, USA, Wood Mackenzie, American Wind Energy Association, North America, Target