The US residential solar sector is set to break installation records this year as clean energy development proves resilient to disruptions caused by COVID-19.That is according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF), which predicts 3GW of residential solar PV capacity additions this year, up from last year’s record of 2.8GW.
2020.10.12
Read MoreGovernments should focus on mini-grids as a means to enabling access to reliable electricity for hundreds of millions of people that don’t yet have it and mini-grids using solar and batteries have matured as a technology class, but financing such projects remains problematic, a new report has found.
2020.07.06
Read MoreEver since when on 31 May 2018, China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) abruptly and without warning decided to stop approving any new solar PV project until further notice, it was fair to assume that its domestic market would take a different course of development during the remaining period o
2020.05.14
Read MoreSunPower provided more details on the planned capacity expansions of the new offspring in its fourth quarter earnings call. Image: SunPower Corp
2020.02.19
Read MoreChina’s top planning organisation has revealed new solar and wind policies for subsidy-free projects.Feed-in tariff (FiT) support was cut in May 2018 but under new plans, all relevant bodies will be asked to clear obstacles for those projects that can undercut coal (coal-fired benchmark on-grid pric
2019.01.10
Read MoreMaersk sets net Zero CO2 emission target by 2050Copenhagen, 04 December 2018A.P. Moller -Maersk aims at having carbon neutral vessels commercially viable by 2030 and calls for strong industry involvementAimed at accelerating the transition to carbon neutral shipping, Maersk announces today its goal
2018.12.05
Read MoreThe global energy storage market will grow to a cumulative 942GW/2,857GWh capacity by 2040, attracting US$1.2 trillion in investment, caused by sharply decreasing battery costs, according to a Bloomberg NEF (BNEF) report.
2018.11.12
Read MoreMajor horizontal single-axis solar tracker firm Soltec is opening the first of its kind ‘Bifacial Tracking Evaluation Center’ (BiTEC) in Livermore, California to further scientifically evaluate the performance of bifacial PV modules and the tracking performance with single-axis trackers. Soltec said
2018.06.01
Read MoreResearchers at Solliance and ECN have fabricated a 6 inch industrially processed c-Si cell with a perovskite top layer that is mechanically stacked using ECN’s MWT-SHJ (metal-wrap-through silicon heterojunction) design that has achieved conversion efficiencies of 26.3%. The work was publicised durin
2018.03.24
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