Solar

Solar Battery (Storage)

New York State Correctional Facilities Lock in Solar Savings

Solar at the Mid-State Correctional Facility. NYPAGovernor Kathy Hochul during Earth Week announced the deployment of more than 30 MW of solar energy at correct…

Rooftop Solar

Lowe’s Installing Solar at 174 Stores and Distribution Centers

Rooftop solar panels installed at the Lowe's in Lumberton, NJ. (Courtesy: Lowe's)Lowe's has announced plans to install solar panel systems at 174 of…

Solar Cell

New Findings Pave the Way for Stable Organic Solar Cells That May Enable Cheap and Renewable Electricity Generation

Due to the recent improvements in the efficiency with which solar cells made from organic (carbon-based) semiconductors can convert sunlight into electricity, i…

Solar project

Development Banks Ifc and Afdb Finance Solar-Plus-Storage Projects in Malawi and Eritrea

Development banks IFC and AfDB have financed co-located projects in Malawi and Eritrea which collectively total 25MW of energy storage.The International Finance…

Wind Farm

North American Solar and Wind Ppa Prices Increased 6.6% In Q1 of 2023

In the first quarter of 2023, North American P25* power purchase agreement (PPA) offer prices rose an average of 6.6% to $50.32 per megawatt hour (MWh), accordi…

Solar Power Plant

Jolywood Is Ready for 13.5GW Topcon Cell Production

Jolywood made an announcement on April 17 to declare the cooperation with manufacturer Baida Seiko Co., Ltd (Baida Seiko) on the annual 13.5 GW cell project. Th…

Solar project

British Consultancy Further Highlights Solar in Energy Transition

UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember recently released a report, revealing that wind and solar energy account for 12% of global electricity in 2022, up …

Solar Power Plant

TCL to Set up the Largest Solar Manufacturing Project in Guangdong

TCL Zhonghuan recently has signed a cooperation agreement with Guangzhou Municipal Government and Guangzhou Development Zone Management Committee, and invested …

Photovoltaic （PV）

7 Billion Yuan! Risen Energy Partners With Yuexiu Leasing for Distributed PV Projects

Risen Energy Co., Ltd (Risen Energy) recently signed a cooperation agreement with Guangzhou Yuexiu Financial Leasing Co.,Ltd (Yuexiu Leasing), a company engaged…

Solar Power Plant

EU Launches First Cross-Border Solar Tender

Participants in the European Union’s new cross-border solar tender will have to submit project proposals with capacities between 5 MW and 100 MW. Luxembourg is…

Energy Technology

Italy Sets New Provisions for Innovative Agrivoltaics

The European Commission is now reviewing Italy’s new rules on agrivoltaics. They define which innovative agrivoltaic systems are entitled to the Italian govern…

Solar Cell

Midsummer Helps Develop Tandem Cells With 30% Efficiency

The Sweden-based thin-film solar solutions company, Midsummer, was recently selected to participate in a research project to develop a highly efficient and stab…

Rooftop Solar

Cape Town Deploying Us$65 Million Solar-Plus-Storage Project to ‘Reduce Eskom Reliance’

A solar-plus-storage project is being planned for the capital of South Africa, as the city looks to move away from Eskom reliance and towards a load-shedding-fr…

Solar Panel

Australia Had Over 2GWH of Large-Scale Battery Storage Under Construction at End of 2022

Nearly double the megawatt-hours of large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) were under construction in Australia by the end of 2022 compared to the pr…

Solar Battery (Storage)

Using Machine Learning to Find Reliable and Low-Cost Solar Cells

Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering are using machine learning to identify new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. …