Solar

Energy Storage Project

Reliable Renewable Solar and Battery Microgrid Powers South Australia

South Australia’s state Liberal government has marked the launch of another “reliable renewable” resource on its energy system, with the completion of a mass…

US lawmakers redouble efforts to extend renewables tax credits

House Democrats unveiled draft legislation this week that would extend tax credits for for solar and wind developers.

Solar Power Panel

Cannon-Brookes Says $20bn Solar Project Will be “Lighthouse” to World

Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the planned $20 billion project to build the world’s largest solar farm, a huge storage facility and a cab…

Solar Company

Jinko Sees Global Solar Market Growing 20% in 2020

The world’s largest producer of solar modules expects big things from the Chinese and U.S. markets in the year ahead.

Solar Power Panel

Meeco Installs First Sun2rope Solution in Kenya

A Swiss-based clean energy provider, The meeco Group, has completed the structural installation of its first solar photovoltaic (PV) project using an innovative…

Solar Company

Facebook Data Center in Georgia to Be Powered by 107 MW Solar Park

Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has signed a contract with Silicon Ranch on behalf of Facebook for a new solar project.

Solar Power Plant

International Finance Corporation to Fund Solar Farms in Mexico

NADB and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have agreed to provide $200m in green loans to Infraestructura Energética Nova (IEnova) to fund four new s…

Solar Technology

Hanergy's Solar Tech Breaks New Conversion Efficiency Record

Hanergy’s Chengdu Research & Development Center has once again broken the world record for its silicon heterojunction (SHJ) technology.

'GREEN Act of 2019' Extends Tax Credits for Renewables

The Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 19 released a draft tax package for clean energy projects that includes a five-year ex…

Who Can Pay for the Boom of New Solar And Wind Investment in the Nest 15 Years?

New solar and wind investment could hit $190 billion a year by 2035, Wood Mackenzie says. Where will that money come from?

Distributed energy

Texas : Where Distributed Energy's Potential Exceeds Its Market Access

Distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and home batteries could save Texas billions of dollars a year.

Solar thermal

CSP Startup Heliogen Cranks Up Solar Thermal to 1000 Degrees

Heliogen's breakthrough demonstration unlocks the possibility of industrial heat without fossil fuel combustion.

Efficient Hydrogen Conversion via PEC Water Splitting Using Hematite Mesocrystals

A research group led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing photocatal…

Microgrid

After PG&E Blackout, California Homeowners Shift to Solar and Batteries

The Northern California blackouts this month, coming after years of increasingly destructive wildfires, showed millions of people how fragile their power grid c…

Solar Power Panel

NextEra Energy completes 74.9-MW South Carolina solar project

NextEra Energy Resources started operations at its newest solar energy generating facility, the Shaw Creek Solar Energy Center in Aiken, South Carolina.