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Solar Technology

Self-Powering Greenhouse Based on PV, BESS, Hydrogen

Scientists have designed a greenhouse system that involves a battery energy storage system, hydrogen production and storage, as well as a semi-transparent PV ar…

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 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…

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…

Floating Solar

Combining Floating PV With Compressed Air Energy Storage

Researchers from Egypt and the UK developed a new floating PV system concept that utilizes compressed air for energy storage. The system has a roundtrip efficie…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Solar Uptake Driving Ireland’s Retrofitting Scheme Progress, Says SEAI

The Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland’s (SEAI) statistics from the first nine months of 2024 show new applications for the Solar PV retrofit scheme are…

Solar project

Five-Year Testing Show PV Façades Perform Better Than Expected

Researchers in the Netherlands have analyzed the performance of PV façades during the period 2018-2023 and have found that these system may generate more…

Solar Module

Juniper Green Places 1 GW PV Module Order With First Solar

Juniper Green Energy has signed an agreement to buy 1 GW of First Solar’s Series 7 FT1 cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film PV modules. The modules will pow…

Energy Investment

China Expands Investments in Wind, Hydropower and Photovoltaic (PV) Energy Amid Global Economic Slowdown

In response to the global economic slowdown, China has stepped up its investments in green energy, with a new focus on solar PV, wind and hydropower development…

Solar Module

JinkoSolar Sues VSUN for Alleged Patent Infringement

China-based panel maker JinkoSolar says that its competitor VSUN and its related entities in the United States have infringed on one of its patents.Chinese PV m…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Longi Debuts HPBC 2.0 Modules in China’s First Distributed Solar Project

Longi says its hybrid passivated back contact (HPBC) 2.0 dual-glass modules have been installed for the first time in a distributed generation project. The 2.2 …

Solar project

Mibet Launches 51 KW Offshore PV Demonstrator

Mibet, a Chinese PV mounting system supplier, says it has started operating a 51 kW offshore PV pilot project in Xiamen, southeastern China. The 563.286 sqm sys…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Chinese Developer Switches on World’s Largest Perovskite-Based PV Plant

MicroQuanta, a Chinese perovskite solar specialist, has commissioned a 8.2 MW PV facility based on its 90 W perovskite panels in eastern China.Chinese perovskit…

Solar project

Nature Infrastructure, Davidson Kempner Buy PV, Storage Platform From Greencells

Investment firms Davidson Kempner and Nature Infrastructure Capital have jointly acquired a renewables project development platform from Germany’s Greencells G…