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The utility-scale solar momentum slowly coursing through Latin America looks set to extend to one of the region’s smallest countries, with a large project now progressing through construction.

Scientists at the United States Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a root cause of dendrite formation, which can cause battery failure and even fires in lithium-ion technology. With this new knowledge, the group is now working on electrolyte recipes that eliminate dendrite growth entirely.

Getting on for 300 international exhibitors are attending the Solar Bangladesh Expo in Dhaka which opened today and runs until Saturday. pv magazine’s Syful Islam is walking the floors and hearing optimistic messages.

A big solar park planned for western Anglesey would ruin the area for tourism and occupy good farming land, a campaign group has claimed.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Italian energy Enel will certainly invest around EUR70 billion (US$ 78 billion) by 2030 to scale up its renewables as well as energy storage portfolio as it brings forward plans to get to net zero to 2040.

Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science have actually located goethite, a typical sort of corrosion, can be made use of as a stimulant to accelerate solar-powered hydrogen manufacturing. The team says further optimization can allow their procedure to get rid of the requirement for the expensive, uncommon drivers presently made use of.