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Your Monday Briefings: All the Solar News (Week 24)

published: 2020-06-08 21:00
Welcome back to another busy week! This time, we are covering German PV industry’s immunity to COVID-19, Israel’s ambitious plan for solar energy and JinkoSolar’s victory, and many more! Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Your Mon...  more

Energy Storage Invested by Bill Gates Transcended Commercialization and Achieved 150 Hours of Electricity Storage Time

published: 2020-06-08 18:30
Form Energy, invested by Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is about to realize the next generation of prolonged battery energy storage technology by having signed a contract with Great River Energy, the second largest power company in Minnesota, on developing a 1MW/150MWh pilot power plant, which claims to store electricity for a much longer period of 150 hours in contrast to the existing lithium battery power plants. ...  more

The “Wooden” Future of Wind Energy

published: 2020-06-07 10:00
Wind turbine towers are for the most part made of steel, which means the larger the wind turbine, the more steel used in the construction of turbine tower, and the larger the tower needed to support the turbine. ...  more

SYM Electric Scooter Configured with Duo Battery System Expected to Debut at the End of the Year

published: 2020-06-06 13:00
The new electric vehicle of Taiwanese scooter overlord SYM initially expected to debut in mid-year may be postponed to the end of the year according to the latest news. This new electric vehicle will be configured with a duo power system that allows both charging and replacement of battery, though the existing data reveals that the power performance for this scooter may not be remarkable. ...  more

Sodium-Ion Batteries Have Game-Changing Potential as Supply of Key Material Is Inexhaustible

published: 2020-06-06 10:00
A research project jointly executed by scientists at Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) resulted in the creation of a sodium-ion battery that is relatively on par with some commercial lithium-ion batteries in terms of performance. Their report, which was published in ACS Energy Letters on April 28, further opens up the possibility of the commercialization of the sodium-ion battery technology that is based on a ubiquitous and low-cost material. ...  more

JinkoSolar Won The Patent War with Hanwha, For Now

published: 2020-06-05 21:00
The U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) has issued a final determination in favor of JinkoSolar (“Jinko”), which concludes that Jinko’s products do not infringe the patent asserted by South Korean PV module maker Hanwha Q ...  more