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Sharp Energy Solutions Corporation announces the completion of a mega solar power plant in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The project was a collaboration with multiple partners, including power generating company Viet Nam Viet Renewable Energy Joint Stock Company and local construction company as well as co-owner of the project NSN Construction and Engineering Joint Stock […]
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ConnectDER, the innovative company that enables utilities and homeowners to expand access to distributed energy resources, has received a patent for innovations to their ‘plug and play’ solutions for distributed energy resources. The patent is for a reinvention of the standard utility power meter; one that combines the ubiquitous metering and communications of a “Smart […]
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Contributing to reduction of GHG emissions by 5MW-dc of solar power capacity Sharp Energy Solutions Corporation has successfully installed solar power systems on the rooftops of two plants in Thailand run by MinebeaMitsumi Inc. The plants are the Bang Pa-in Plant in Ayutthaya Province and the Lopburi Plant in Lopburi Province. On January 15, 2021, […]
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Infineon Technologies, a world leader in semiconductors, today announced the commencement of its ‘Infineon Solar Pump Motor Drive Challenge 2021′ initiative to encourage affordable and reliable solar powered irrigation systems for farmers – design and manufactured locally. Current pump manufacturing produces traditional irrigation pumps but microelectronics is still new to this industry. “Developing viable solutions […]
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The two companies want to test a floating PV array under harsh weather conditions in rough waters for at least a year. The system will be based on a floating solar technology developed by Maritime Moss, a unit of Saipem. Norwegian oil giant Equinor is partnering with Vollsveien-based engineering specialist Moss Maritime, a unit of […]
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German scientists have fabricated an enhanced amorphous germanium PV cell that confines light in an ultra-thin absorber. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center have developed a selective solar cell based on an ultra-thin n-i-p absorber layer stack and a thin-film spectral selective filter. The device is an enhanced amorphous germanium solar cell that can confine […]
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The Canada Infrastructure Bank and Oneida Energy Storage LP, a joint venture between NRStor and Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corp., have signed a memorandum of understanding for the Oneida Energy Storage project in Ontario. According to the CIB, the proposed 250 MW/1,000 MWh energy storage facility represents the largest project of its […]
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Dutch company Rads Global Business has developed an anti-soiling coating for solar PV modules that is claimed to reduce cleaning cost by around 60%. The anti-reflective and anti-corrosive coating is also said to mitigate potential-induced degradation. “It increases the efficiency of wet cleaning by reducing water consumption in the range of 50 to 70% due […]
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India’s PV capacity additions fell 38% year on year in the first eight months of fiscal 2020-21, as pandemic-driven disruptions constrained new project development. Solar power accounted for 5.2 GW of the new capacity additions, or 75% of the total. Coal-based power, which is the nation’s dominant electricity source and accounts for 55% of the […]
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The solar cell manufacturing facility, located in China’s Yunnan Province, is expected to raise Jinko’s cell capacity to 30 GW by the end of 2021. Chinese provider of power transmission, power system management and power network maintenance, Guangdong Energy Group Co.,Ltd and Guangdong Agricultural Reclamation Group, which is affiliated with the Bureau of Agriculture and […]
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