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Spain declares climate emergency, signals move to renewables
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
In a statement announced after the weekly cabinet meeting, the government committed to bringing a draft bill "to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the object...
Qatar signs $470 mn solar deal
Jan 19, 2020 (AFP)
The Al-Kharsaah plant, near the capital, is a 10-square-kilometre (4-sq-mile) joint venture with French and Japanese partners due for completion in 2022 ahead o...
Solar-powered barge a key 'interceptor' for plastic waste
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Trash is being dumped into seas and rivers in enormous quantities, polluting vital habitats, endangering a kaleidoscope of marine life and sullying once pristin...
Altus Power teams up with Blackstone to raise $850M for solar development and investment
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
The recapitalization consists of preferred and minority equity and investment grade-rated debt financing provided by GSO and a BIS-led consortium, respectively,...
Jolywood Supply N type solar panel to the biggest bifacial Solar plant in Middle East
Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)
Jolywood has delivered 105MWac of solar power to the Marubeni Corporation's latest power station using its revolutionary N-type high efficiency bifacial solar c...
Energy experts say the the 2020s will be the Decade of Solar
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) announced last year a goal for solar power to reach 20% of all U.S. electricity generation by 2030, naming the 20...
Reversing electrons' course through nature's solar cells
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switch point. After sunlight is absorbed, energy transfers rapidly to a protein called the reaction center. From this po...
ib vogt sells and constructs 180 MWp PV plant in Spain
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
The Bienvenida project was initially acquired as an early stage development project by ib vogt in 2017 and developed to achieve a capacity of 180 MWp on only 17...
Polluted wastewater in the forecast? Try a solar umbrella
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a way to double the rate of evaporation by ...
JinkoSolar partners with SISP to develop solar cells for space applications
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
Innovators and engineers from both sides will co-develop space-based photovoltaic cells with a more efficient, low-cost, robust silicon wafer as the supporting ...
Tests measure solar panel performance beyond established standards
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
In testing solar panels, the sun's intensity, the spectral composition and the angle of light are important factors in understanding why certain panels are succ...
Harnessing hot carriers for high efficiency solar cells
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites are attractive solar materials because they are potentially much less expensive to produce than silicon. However, there rem...
Breakthrough innovation enabling cheaper solar energy production is one step closer to the market
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
Material, synthesised by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania scientists, which self-assemble to form a molecular-thick electrode layer, presents a ...
JA Solar will supply 490MW modules for Huanghe Hydropower Development's UHV Transmission Project
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
The project, with a scale of 3.1GW, is the world's leading UHV demonstration project. This is also of great significance for the application of new technologies...
Major upgrade of Alamo 1 solar farm leads to increased performance
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
"Alamo I is now equipped with industry-leading tracker technology and a block of bifacial modules which will be used for field testing and data-gathering," said...
Solar power from 'the dark side' unlocked by a new formula
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
Double-sided solar cells are already enabling panels to sit vertically on land or rooftops and even horizontally as the canopy of a gas station, but it hasn't b...
Flexible thinking on silicon solar cells
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
KAUST researchers have devised a way to turn rigid silicon into solar cells that can be stretched by a record-breaking 95 percent, while retaining high solar en...
Scientists create thin films with tantalizing electronic properties
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
The films combine exceptionally strong light absorption with good charge transport - two qualities that make them ideal for applications such as photovoltaics a...
Tweaks behind the rebirth of nearly discarded organic solar technologies
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
The shift is from "fullerene" to "non-fullerene acceptors" (NFAs), terms detailed below, and in photovoltaic electricity generation, the acceptor is a molecule ...
Hecate Energy's 100MW Santa Teresa solar project wins El Paso bid
Dec 20, 2019 (SPX)
Pending necessary regulatory approvals, the project-to be constructed in Santa Teresa, New Mexico - is anticipated to be in service by May 2022. EPE and Hecate ...
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