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Applications & Installations
South Korea’s roadmap to drive down solar costs The government has unveiled a plan to help the PV industry reduce the cost of solar panels from around $0.23/W to $0.10/W by 2030. The plan also aims to reach module efficiencies of around 24% – up to 35% for multi-junction cells – by the end of the next decade.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 20, 2019
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Mounting interest in gravity-based storage solutions Austrian researchers have proposed gravitational energy storage for locations with low demand. The scientists claim the system they are suggesting can be combined with other forms of storage as well as renewables, costs $50-100 per megawatt-hour of stored energy and $1-2 million per megawatt of installed capacity to develop.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 19, 2019
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Brazil’s Copel contracts another 121.6 MW The energy provider concluded its second renewables auction on November 13, and has contracted 121.6 MW of wind and solar. Selected projects will be granted a 15-year PPA and will have to begin commercial operations in 2023.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 19, 2019
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Israel’s largest solar park comes online The clean energy arm of Israeli conglomerate Shikun & Binui will own the 120 MW plant near the village of Zeélim.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 19, 2019
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Chile to hold new energy auction in June According to the bidding terms published by the National Energy Commission, project proposals may be submitted by June 11 and the results will be announced on June 19. Successful bidders will secure a 15-year power supply deal and some 5.6 TWh of electricity is expected to be generated annually as a result of the new capacity.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 19, 2019
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Research & Development
Hot news on harvesting electrons in perovskites An international research group claims to have developed a new bulk perovskite semiconductor material that can capture the excess energy of hot electrons. The material is said to rapidly absorb as heat energy which would otherwise be wasted. With the harvesting of hot electrons, the maximum theoretical efficiency for hybrid-perovskite solar cells could increase from 33% to 66%.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 18, 2019
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Seoul launches 1 GW rooftop solar plan The South Korean capital has unveiled a plan to deploy rooftop PV on a million homes and all public buildings. The new initiative is designed to bring the city’s cumulative installed solar capacity to around 1 GW by the end of 2022.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 18, 2019
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Turkey to hold 1 GW solar tender in April The Turkish government is planning to assign 100 solar projects with a capacity of 10 MW each across 39 different provinces via a new procurement exercise. The tender will be held on April 20, 2020.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 18, 2019
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Floating in the Alps Romande Energie is deploying a 448 kW floating array on the surface of Lac des Toules, a reservoir located at an altitude of 1,810 meters in the Swiss Alps. The installation will likely operate under heavy weather conditions, but it is also expected to produce 50% more power than similar projects built in the plain.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 18, 2019