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Solar Tracker

PV Hardware’s New Solar Tracker Withstands Winds up to 238 km/h

Spain-headquartered solar tracker company PV Hardware has developed a tracker product able to withstand severe cyclonic winds up to 238 km/h, as well as a fixed…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Improving Vertical Bifacial PV System Performance With Free-Space Luminescent Solar Concentrators

New research from the Netherlands shows that using free-space luminescent solar concentrators could be used to considerably increase bifacial solar module perfo…

Solar Cell

Waaree Energies, IIT Bombay Collaborate to Drive Perovskite Solar R&D

Waaree Energies says it has agreed to support IIT Bombay in creating an advanced fabrication and characterization setup to develop high-efficiency perovskite so…

Solar project

First Phase of 2 GW/11 GWh Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Chile Nears Completion

Spanish company Grenergy says the 105 batteries that will complete the first phase of the Oasis de Atacama solar and storage project have arrived at the Chilean…

Solar Cell

Fraunhofer ISE Developing Copper Metallization for Tandem Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cells

The German research institute said it is currently exploring three copper metallization methods: Screen printing, FlexTrail printing and rotary printing. The pr…

PowerGrid Technology

Belgian Startup Raises $2.5 Million for Grid Orchestration Software

Powernaut’s software balances local generation from decentralized devices such as solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with the needs of the power grid…

Battery

Rio Tinto to Invest $2.5b to Expand Rincon Lithium Project Capacity to 60,000 Tonnes Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate per Year

Rio Tinto has approved $2.5 billion to expand the Rincon project in Argentina, the company’s first commercial-scale lithium operation, demonstrating its c…

Solar Module

Spanish Researchers Find Revamping Modules and Inverters Is the Most Profitable Strategy

A group of researchers have carried out a techno-economic analysis of three revamping strategies for an operating photovoltaic power plant in southeast Spain. T…

Electric Vehicles

Rho Motion: Record Number EVs Sold in November

November 2024 marked another record-breaking month for EV sales with 1.8 million units sold globally according to EV research-house, Rho Motion. November overto…

Rooftop Solar

Gibraltar Opens Tender for Rooftop Solar Arrays

The Gibraltar government is seeking developers to install rooftop solar systems at selected sites across the British Overseas Territory. It will also consider p…

Net Zero

Emissions Fall In Hard-To-Abate Sectors but Still off Track to Reach 2050 Net-Zero Targets

The World Economic Forum’s latest Net Zero Industry Tracker shows progress in reducing emissions across eight hard-to-abate sectors—steel, aluminium, cem…

Nuclear Reactor

Russia Starts Decommissioning Plutonium-Producing Reactor

Decommissioning of the ADE-2 water-cooled uranium-graphite thermal neutron reactor has begun at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, in the Krasnoy…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

France Supports Financing of Polish Nuclear Power Plant

France's Bpifrance Assurance Export and Sfil have joined the growing list of overseas financial institutions expressing interest in helping to finance Polan…

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…

Uranium Project

US Regulator Authorises Urenco Plant to Increase Enrichment

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Urenco USA's licence amendment request to increase uranium enrichment levels up to 10% at its facility in …