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Solar Inverter

PowerChina Wraps up Record 102 GW Solar Equipment Procurement Tender

China Power Construction Corp. (PowerChina) says it has concluded the largest procurement tender in solar industry history, involving 51 GW of PV modules and 51…

Solar project

UK Government Seeking Developers for Solar Project in Cyprus

The UK Ministry of Defence has launched a tender for a 875 kW solar array to be built within its base in Cyprus. The deadline for expressions of interest is Jan…

Solar project

BYD Delivers 600 MWh of Batteries for Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Chile

Grenergy has announced the arrival of 600 MWh of BYD batteries at the Chilean port of Iquique, marking a key milestone in the first phase of the Oasis de Atacam…

Solar project

UK Targets 45 GW Solar, 22 GW BESS in Clean Power 2030 Plan

Policies and targets confirmed in 138-page government plan to decarbonize Great Britain’s electricity generation by 2030. Solar and storage to play a key …

Solar Materials

Stable Silicon, Wafer Prices With Minor Variations

TrendForce says silicon material and wafer prices stayed mostly stable this week, while Longi Green Energy has signed a strategic deal with China Energy Constru…

Solar Cell

Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Based on Wide-Bandgap Top Device Achieves 33.10% Efficiency

Researchers in China have integrated a wide-bandgap perovskite solar cell with a hybrid back contact device in a four-terminal tandem cell that achieves high ef…

Solar Module

Cooling PV Modules With Lauric Acid and Nanoparticles

Thai researchers developed three organic phase-change material (PCM) mixtures with nanoparticles to cool PV modules and improve efficiency. They used lauric aci…

Floating Solar

Testing Rigid Connectors in Floating Photovoltaics

New research from China shows that using rigid connectors instead of polyester ropes in floating photovoltaic arrays may help reduce the relative motion of floa…

Photovoltaic （PV）

France Deployed 3.5 GW of New Solar in January-September Period

France added an additional 3.5 GW of solar during the first three quarters of this year, compared to 2.3 GW during the same period of 2023. The country’s …

Photovoltaic （PV）

Spain’s Acciona Energía to Develop Agrivoltaics Over Canal

The agrivoltaic project, with a production capacity of up to 5,011 MW, will cover 2 km of the Orellana Canal in Cáceres, western Spain.Spanish energy com…

Battery

FHE Group Presents Thermal Battery for Solar Power Storage

The French company says its Inelio thermal battery can store solar power in the form of heat for heating and cooling applications, as well as for producing dome…

Microgrid

Suriname Starts Building Hybrid Solar Microgrids to Power 25 Villages

PowerChina is building three hybrid solar microgrids in Suriname, combining solar panels, energy storage, and diesel backup to power 25 remote villages across t…

Solar Module

Unimacts to Expand Houston Facility for Steel Solar Frame Production

Origami Solar sees an opportunity to supply module manufacturers in the US market who are switching from imported aluminum frames to domestically made steel fra…

Solar Panel

US Doubles Solar Polysilicon and Wafer Tariffs on China

The US government has doubled Section 301 tariffs on imported solar polysilicon and wafers from China to 50%. The materials are vital for manufacturing solar pa…

Solar Cell

Fraunhofer ISE Concludes Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Project

The five-year MaNiTU project, involving six Fraunhofer institutes, covered a range of investigations across the life cycle of perovskite-silicon tandem solar ce…