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GMP and Sunrun Jointly Push PV Power Storage Project

published: 2019-09-18 0:30

Green Mountain Power (GMP), a utility firm from Vermont of the U.S., is pushing a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) battery storage program which will incorporate the Brightbox residential PV power + energy storage program of Sunrun. ... more

CATL and BYD Scramble for Japanese Battery Market

published: 2019-09-17 0:30

CATL and BYD, China’s two auto battery giants, are expected to compete head-on in Japan, in a scramble for the market’s handsome potential. ... more

New Onshore Wind Power Capacity Plunges in Germany in the First Half

published: 2019-09-12 0:30

Germany’s new onshore wind-power capacity reached 290 MW in the first half of 2019, a 20-year low, plunging by 80% year-on-year. ... more

Chinese PV-Cell Makers Foray Into the Japanese Market

published: 2019-09-11 0:30

Chinese PV-cell makers are gearing up to foray into the Japanese market, whose demands for PV power have been expanding for five straight quarters. ... more

World’s Largest Energy Storage System Scheduled for Launch in 2025

published: 2019-09-10 0:30

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has officially joined hands with the Utah state government and Magnum Development of the U.S. in building a 1 GW energy storage system in salt caverns, which is scheduled for inauguration in 2025. ... more

Heraeus Photovoltaics and Cell Engineering announce partnership to bring high-yield LECO technology and metallization pastes to market

published: 2019-09-09 15:21

Heraeus Photovoltaics, a leading technology solution provider for the renewable energy industry, and Cell Engineering, an engineering company based in Germany, today announced their joint development partnership on LECO technology. LECO (Laser Enhanced Contact Optimization) is a patented solution for solar cell manufacturers to significantly improve high-efficiency cell bin yields. Heraeus has invented, and is now refining, new LECO-specific metallization pastes which additionally improve overall cell efficiency by up to 0.15%. The technology is versatile and designed to be applicable for nearly all cell technologies which use co-firing. ... more

Li Metal Battery Breakthrough May Boost Electric Vehicle Adoption

published: 2019-09-07 0:00

Image by Marilyn Murphy from Pixabay Electric vehicles have been media darlings that dominate the headlines and guarantee huge viewership. But how popular are they really to the consumers? Can the sales really stack up to the media hype? ... more

Best of Both Worlds: Agrivoltaics Boosts Yields of Crops and Solar While Saving Water

published: 2019-09-06 0:00

Credit: Peggy Choucair from Pixabay Not one, but two research teams from the U.S. found that agrivoltaics is a win-win for the crops and the solar modules. According to one of the studies from Oregon State University, agrivoltaics thrive in environments such as cropland, grasslands, and wetlands. The other study from the University of Arizona has gone even further and proved that Agrivoltaics can also flourish in dryland. ... more

RES to Build a Huge PV Power Station in New South Wales

published: 2019-09-05 0:30

After a long wait, RES, a U.K. renewable energy developer, has finally been approved to build a 200 MW PV power station and a 10 MW/10 MWh energy storage battery system in New South Wales of Australia. ... more

Europe’s Onshore Wind Power Potential Is Quite Large, and 100% of the World’s Electricity Can Be Provided, Study Says

published: 2019-09-05 0:30

Europe’s wind power industry really stands out in the world, and the installed capacity has either reached the second or the top. In 2018 alone, Europe has invested 27 billion euros to develop new wind farms. ... more