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Risen Energy continues overseas revenue growth as module sales and production ramps
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member, Risen Energy Co has continued to grow revenue in 2019, after shifting module sales and PV project development overseas after the China 531 New Deal in 2018, impacted its business.
Oct 31, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, pv modules, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, heterojunction, Risen Energy, monocrystalline wafer, PERC
Perovskite mineral sustains solar-energy sustainability
When it involves the future of solar power cells, say farewell to silicon, and also hello there to calcium titanium oxide-- the substance mineral better known as perovskite.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, solar cells, perovskite, perovskite cells, Fengqi You, Cornell, Silicon pv, Xueyu Tian
SMA reports 42% rise in turnover, Meyer Burger swings to a loss
German inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology reported strong financial results for the very first half of 2020 in spite of the Covid-19 dilemma. Meyer Burger, nevertheless, saw sales as well as profits decline.
Aug 14, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Germany, Europe, meyer burger, SMA, Jürgen Reinert
New optimizations for a 24.5% efficient heterojunction solar cell
Scientists in Germany evaluated the major sources of performance loss in a silicon heterojunction cell, as well as developed numerous optimization approaches to improve overall performance.
Nov 18, 2021 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, heterojunction solar cell, efficiency
DOE commits to awarding Sunnova $3 billion for new VPP loan program
Sunnova simply got a huge loan commitment from the Dept. of Energy to begin a solar loan channel for disadvantaged individuals and also communities.
Apr 21, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Sunnova, doe
Tata and Rockefeller launch India-focused clean energy microgrid unit
Two giants in financing and Indian power are collaborating on a clean energy microgrid operation they claim will deliver power to five million Indian households with 10,000 grids over the next decade.
Nov 5, 2019 // Plants, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, India, Asia, maharashtra, Ashish Khanna, Microgrids, rockefeller foundation, tprel, tata power, Praveer Sinha, Rajiv J. Shah
250-MW Texas solar project sustaining Nestlé comes close to industrial procedure
7X Energy, a utility-scale solar designer, owner and also asset manager, has partnered with Nestlé to be the single tax equity capitalist for its 250 MWac Taygete I Energy Project located in Pecos County, Texas.
Dec 10, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Nestlé, 7x energy, Clay Butler, Jim Wells, Joe Shuster
Intense pulsed light handling for 23.0%- efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells
Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have made use of extreme pulsed light (IPL) processing for the growth of a busbarless silicon heterojunction solar cell. The gadget was manufactured with poly-Si-based tunnel oxide passivating calls, which were applied on both sides of the wafer.
Sep 9, 2020 // Technology, Germany, solar cells, Europe, efficiency
Duke Energy acquires its largest solar project yet
Duke Energy Renewables is expanding its solar energy portfolio by acquiring the 200-MW Holstein solar project from 8minute Solar Energy. The project, located in Nolan County, Texas, will be the largest in Duke Energy Renewables’ fleet once complete.
Jul 24, 2019 // Plants, USA, EPC, Duke Energy Renewables, Texas, O&M, SunTrust, Hauer & Feld LLP, Akin Gump, Wingate, Blattner Energy, First Solar, Solar Energy, North America, 8minute Solar Energy
Monolithic perovskite-silicon solar cell with 20% effectiveness via new lamination method
The solar cell accomplished an open-circuit voltage of 1.75 V, a short-circuit present density of 15.5 mA cm − 2, and a fill element of 73.6%. It was likewise able to retain 93% of its first performance after 100 hrs at a temperature of 80 C.
Jul 26, 2022 // Technology, Germany, Europe, solar cell, KIT, perovskite-silicon
NREL Helps Found Consortium to Boost Solar Perovskite Commercialization
Dealing with leading residential solar business, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the University of Toledo have actually developed the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium (US-MAP), which will certainly function to increase commercialization of perovskite modern technologies.
May 19, 2020 // Market Research, NREL, solar cell, perovskite, thin-film, Martin Keller
PV-electrochemical water-splitting for hydrogen production
A German research study team has developed a brand-new photovoltaic-electrochemical gadget for alkaline water electrolysis. The prototype has a preliminary solar‐to‐hydrogen performance of approximately 7.7%.
Jun 17, 2020 // Technology, Solar to Fuel, Germany, Europe, hydrogen, efficiency, Minoh Lee
NREL Research Boosts Stability of Perovskites, Helps Silicon Solar Cells
An adjustment in the chemical make-up has actually made it possible for researchers at the United States DOE's NREL to improve the durability as well as performance of perovskite solar cells.
Mar 6, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, solar cells, North America, perovskites, International, Innovation, US DOE, Caleb Boyd
SMA lifted by greater margins as sales slip in Q1 2021
Inverter vendor SMA Solar reported a fall in sales throughout Q1 2021, yet cited the political landscape in the United States and Europe as being "incredibly encouraging" in the long term.
May 12, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, solar plus storage, utility scale solar, distributed solar, Jürgen Reinert, inverter manufacturing, sma solar
ACWA Power Signs Two Power Purchase Agreements with Ethiopian Electric Power
ACWA Power has revealed the signing of two Power Purchase Agreements with Ethiopia’s electricity producer, Ethiopian Electric Power, to build two 125 MW solar installations in Ethiopia.
Dec 24, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, PPA, Ethiopia, Africa, ACWA Power












