Australian utility gathers 100 MW of solar in pilot aggregation project
How can you get the gigawatts of distributed solar generation in the WA South West Interconnected System to play nicely with the network? Western Power has gathered 100 MW of resource to test its coordinated ability to stabilize the system on low-demand days.
Solar projects under construction face uncertainty in India
Factors like a labour shortage and proposed duties on module imports could lead to significant cost overruns for Indian developers.
Egypt to impose ‘merger fee’ on net-metered solar
Law firm Riad & Riad has confirmed the levy will be applied but said the level of the charge had not been determined, despite a report to the contrary in one local newspaper.
Trafigura to develop 2 GW of renewables
Oil and metals trader will join forces with Australian investment group IFM to launch the new entity, which will develop solar, wind and energy storage projects – some of them supplying clean energy to Trafigura operations – as well as making acquisitions.
Chile introduces energy communities
The government has published new rules for distributed generation which will come into force on November 6.
III-V solar cells for PV-powered EV applications
According to a new study from Japan, the global installed PV capacity in solar-powered EVs may reach up to 50 GW by 2030. Its authors claim that solar cells with efficiencies higher than 30%, including multijunction III-V cells and III-V cells combined with silicon cells, are the best candidates for applications in the automotive sector due to the limited space of electric car rooftops. However, a series of technical and economic challenges must still be addressed.
Solar auctions to spread PV over the commercial landscape
Once upon a recent time, installing and extracting value from solar PV installed on commercial rooftops was viewed as extremely complex. Innovators such as Energy Action have been smoothing the experience, such that now you can almost just sit back and watch it happen …
Hiring for solar jobs during a pandemic
In spite of industry-wide job loss and economic slowdown associated with the pandemic, Kevin Gillespie, president of Headline Solar, shares how he has actually been able to make new hires and keep his business not just operating, but thriving.
CdTe facade solar panel with 18.2% efficiency
New cadmium telluride solar panels are now available for applications on tall buildings in urban environments. Their efficiency ranges from 15.3% to 18.2%, with 110 W to 450 W of power output.
Solar power generation has risen 13% in Germany this year
The proportion of German electricity generated from renewables is five percentage points higher already than it was in the first nine months of last year.
