Solar PV

Saatvik Green Energy has commissioned a 2 GW in-house EPE film manufacturing facility at its Ambala campus in Haryana.

Repurposed electric vehicle batteries have been used for the energy storage component of a solar and battery project that is now helping power operations at carmaker Nissan Australia’s aluminium casting plant in Victoria.

A team of Sweden-based researchers has developed a snow loss model to estimate snow-induced PV power losses on an hourly basis. The proposed approach relies solely on data from remote sensing sources, such as aerial imagery, LIDAR, and satellite data.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and German development bank KfW have signed a €87 million ($102.5 million) financing package for a 134 MW solar project in North Macedonia, the country’s largest under development.

Abu Dhabi-based Masdar has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 200 MW floating solar project in Malaysia, marking its first project in the country under the fifth large-scale solar program.

The Circunvalación Avenue in San Juan, Argentina, is fully lit using solar energy through a distributed generation system installed along the road that combines photovoltaic modules, inverters and high-efficiency LED luminaires.

Zambia National Energy Corp. Ltd. (ZNEC) has launched a tender to deploy solar plants and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the country’s 156 constituencies under a national electrification initiative.

Researchers in Norway investigated the melting behavior of silicon kerf agglomerates under different atmospheres and temperatures to improve recycling for solar-grade silicon. They found that vacuum melting enhances deoxidation and produces a homogeneous, oxide-free melt, while agglomerate size has little effect on melting behavior.

Glare from a nearby solar park forced temporary runway closures at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, prompting Dutch authorities to order the removal of about 78,000 PV modules and apply anti-reflective film to others. The solar park operator, however, decided to replace all the panels. The largest portion of the removed, near-new modules have since been acquired by BM Energy and are expected to be redeployed in projects where glare is not a concern.

Scientists have simulated a solar-powered hydrogen production system comprising 32,050 photovoltaic panels, a pumping system, a seawater reverse-osmosis desalination unit, an electrolyzer, and a hydrogen storage tank. Operation of the system in Oman could potentially yield a levelized cost of electricity of $0.05/kWh and a levelized cost of hydrogen of $9.5/kg.