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Repsol Quits Hecate Energy, Sells 40% Stake to Partner Holdings
Repsol offloads its 40 % share in Hecate Energy to the developer’s parent, ending a legal clash and booking a USD 131 million charge as it refocuses on other US renewables.
Jul 25, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, hecate, repsol
Helleniq Expands in Balkans with 400 MW Renewable Buy
Helleniq Energy boosts its renewable footprint in Southeast Europe with 400+ MW wind and solar acquisitions, aiming for 2 GW by 2030.
Aug 8, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Europe, Romania, Bulgaria, Helleniq Energy
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
PV systems could give as much as 60% of output throughout hurricanes
Researchers in the U.S. have shown, making use of simulations, PV system generation can range from 18-60% of clear-sky possibility throughout cyclones-- offered the arrays do not suffer damage. According to them, solar installations could remain to give back-up power when grids are down during storms, specifically if coupled with energy storage space.
Jun 4, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, NREL, North America
Solar Cell Reaches Record-Setting Energy-Conversion Efficiency
A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory established the six-junction cell, which is thinner than a human hair.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, NREL, solar cell, efficiency, John Geisz
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Unusual magnetic transition in perovskite oxide can help enhance spintronics
Change steel perovskites oxides show a number of desirable properties, consisting of high-temperature superconductivity and electrocatalysis. Currently, scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology explore the structure and buildings of a perovskite oxide, PbFeO3, in anticipation of the uncommon charge distribution and exotic magnetic transitions shown by such systems. They report 2 of the magnetic changes, with a distinctive change above space temperature level and also check out its causes, opening doors to prospective applications in realizing brand-new spintronic tools.
Mar 30, 2021 // Technology, Japan, Asia, perovskite, Masaki Azuma, Hena Das
Hydrogen in crossbreed perovskites is less innocent than it looks
Researchers in the products department in UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering have uncovered a significant reason for constraints to effectiveness in a brand-new generation of solar cells.
Apr 30, 2021 // Technology, USA, hydrogen, solar cell, perovskite, North America, UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering
Examining the influence of micro-cracks in solar glass
A Turkish study group has actually evaluated exactly how large adjustments in temperature level can influence absorbance, light passage as well as reflectivity in 2 sorts of solar glass. The researchers showed reduced performance in solar cells as well as the glass itself were attributable to a great deal of micro-cracks as well as contortions on the glass surface area.
Feb 17, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Asia, Turkey, solar glass, micro-cracks
Japanese giants have solar operations on the down-low
Solar kept a relatively low profile in the latest quarterly results published by Japanese conglomerates Panasonic and Kyocera. With Osaka-based
Aug 2, 2019 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Solar, Japan, Malaysia, Panasonic, GS-Solar, Kyocera, Residential PV, Asia