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Solar Power Plant

Mercury Marine Installs Solar Array at HQ

Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, announced the installation of its first array of photovoltaic solar panels to be put to use at its world he…

Solar Power Panel

SunPower Closing Solar Module Manufacturing Plant in Oregon

SunPower, a solar technology and energy services provider, announced that it will close SunPower Manufacturing Oregon, its solar panel manufacturing plant in Hi…

Solar Power Panel

Quantum Wells Enable Record-Efficiency Two-Junction Solar Cell

Key to the cell’s design is a series of more than 150 ultrathin layers of alternating semiconductors that create quantum wells in the cell’s bottom absorber, …

Solar Power Plant

Eon Enters UK Rooftop PV Business

The German energy company has acquired a 49% stake in U.K. installer Eco2solar. The British company offers solutions for commercial and residential projects.

Solar Cell

The State of the Art in Perovskite Tandems

A new paper from scientists in China and Canada examines the recent progress in the development of perovskite-silicon tandem cells, finding a technology that’s…

Floating Solar Project

Vietnam Sees 70 MW of Floating PV Come Online

Two 35 MW floating facilities were deployed on the Gia Hoet 1 and Tam Bo irrigation lakes in the Chau Duc district commune of Quang Thanh.

Solar Company

JinkoSolar Claims 24.9% Efficiency for N-Type Monocrystalline Cell

The result was confirmed by Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research.

Floating Solar Project

World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm to Start Operations by 2023

An Indian state government has announced the world's largest floating solar project will begin operations in 2022-23.

Solar Power Plant

Clearway Energy Group Completes 192-MW Rosamond Central Solar Project

Clearway Energy Group announced that it completed construction and reached commercial operation on the 192-MW Rosamond Central solar project in Kern County, Cal…

Hybrid Power Plant

Turbines Operational at Skeleton Creek Wind-Solar-Storage Hybrid Project in Oklahoma

NextEra Energy Resources said in December that wind turbines had been successfully installed and became operational at Skeleton Creek, a hybrid renewable energy…

Market Analysis

Wind Power Generated 31.4% of Electricity in December in Spain

Renewables produced 44% of electricity in 2020, wind power 21.8%, concentrated solar power 1.8%, and photovoltaic 6.1%.

Solar Cell

Stanford Scientists Gain Insight on Polaron Distortion in Perovskite Solar Cells

Polaron formation in perovskite solar cells has been indicated in scientific research as a possible factor for making this kind of cell particularly efficient, …

Solar Power Plant

Nigeria Electrification Project Energises Another Community

The Shimankar community has joined a number of communities across Nigeria that are experiencing social and economic progress facilitated by the solar mini-grids…

Microgrid

Tata Power Arm Hits ‘100 Solar Microgrids’ Milestone

TP Renewable Microgrid has installed an aggregate 3 MW of solar microgrid capacity with its 100th project commissioned in Ratnapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Energy Storage Project

Israel could Arrive at 8GWh of Energy Storage ‘Well Before 2030 Goal’

An auction for solar-plus-storage held in Israel by the country’s Electricity Authority awarded 609MW of solar PV alongside 2.4GWh of energy storage.