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Representatives of the Ghana Solar Industry and international partners of the University inaugurated the new Solar Training Centre and launched the 3-week Solar Planner Course for Students.

The race for the highest wattage solar panel started in 2020 and came to an end with JinkoSolar’s Tiger Neo, carrying efficiency up to 22.3%, promising to have 15-20W more wattage than the conventional p-PERC panel of the same size.

10MW of the newest, advanced Tiger Neo 605W solar panel from Jinkosolar, featuring the company’s innovative N-type cells, will be installed on rooftops of several schools in Dongfang City, Hainan province, China.

AleaSoft Energy Forecasting, February 7, 2022. The prices of almost all European electricity markets fell during the first week of February, favoured by the decrease in gas prices, lower demand and an increase in wind and solar energy production. Even so, the weekly averages were above €160/MWh in most markets. CO2 prices registered a new historical high, standing above €96/t and Brent prices continued to rise, reaching values not seen since 2014.

The Clean Growth Fund, the UK venture capital fund, has led a GBP£2.4m investment in Above, a world-leading solar data and analytics company. Above is revolutionising the solar industry, developing software, digital models and AI to help generate more solar power from data.

Luminor Bank and the renewable energy company Green Genius have agreed on a €20 million loan to implement 35-megawatt remote solar parks in Lithuania. Lithuanian companies will use the 100% green energy produced in the power plants.

Swedish solar energy leader Midsummer has signed a five-year multi-million euro deal with an Italian roof manufacturer, the second in a short period of time. According to a newly signed agreement, Turin-based roofing and building material supplier Unimetal undertakes to purchase up to 5 MW per year of Midsummer’s thin film CIGS modules for a price of nine million euros per year for five years, implying a total contract value of 45 million euros for 25 MW panels.

VFlowTech, a Singapore-based energy storage solutions provider manufacturing low-cost and efficient modular vanadium redox flow batteries, and Sing Fuels, a global energy trading company, today announced their new joint venture to meet the needs of the fast-developing energy storage market in Africa through sustainable microgrids.

Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project to accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040.

STEAG subsidiary building 50-megawatt solar farm in Norfolk