Bust to boom: Key takeaways from Czechia’s Smart Energy Forum
As Czechia reaches its solar potential, with impending changes to the country’s legislative landscape ushering in greater utility-scale solar array rollouts, over 5,000 attendees – government ministers, industry experts, and key business stakeholders – descended on Prague this week for the 2023 Smart Energy Forum.
Fischer Commercial presents air source heat pumps for residential applications
Fischer Commercial, a UK-based heat pump supplier, has unveiled new air source heat pumps for residential use. It is making them at its factory in Guadalajara, Spain. It claims that they offer a seasonal coefficient of performance (SCOP) of up to 4.85.
REC rolls out new 470 W rooftop solar panels
Singapore-based PV module manufacturer REC Group has launched in Australia a new series of rooftop solar panels with power ratings ranging from 450 W to 470 W and efficiencies of up to 22.6%.
Solar electric camper van with 400 km range
Detroit-based Grounded has introduced a new all-electric recreational vehicle (RV) built on a GM platform.
Epishine unveils organic PV kit for indoor battery-free applications
Sweden-based Epishine has launched a developer kit based on its 6-cell 50 mm x 50 mm organic PV module for prototyping and testing its use in battery-free indoor sensing and monitoring devices.
Dracula Technologies builds organic PV module factory in France
Dracula Technologies has built an organic photovoltaic (OPV) module factory in France to make OPV devices with digital printing technology for connected objects. The facility can produce up to 150 million cm² of OPV modules per year, with the first shipments scheduled to start in 2024.
PVT-driven geothermal heat pump system for greenhouses
South Korea’s Rural Development Administration has created an energy system for greenhouses that combines photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) panels with a ground-source heat pump. It is said to compensate, via the PVT panels, the typical shortcomings of geothermal energy and to be able to reduce heating and cooling costs in greenhouses by up to 78%.
Qcells expands $2.5 billion US solar factory
Qcells has expanded its $2.5 billion solar factory in the US state of Georgia. The move is the first phase of its factory expansion plans, increasing module production capacity to more than 5.1 GW.
The impact of BIPV in high rise buildings
Scientists from Spain have outlined several scenarios for developing building-integrated PV solutions in a case study building in Palma de Mallorca. Their economic analysis stressed the importance of electricity pricing schemes for the viability of BIPV projects in the Mediterranean area.
LG debuts stackable home batteries ranging from 10.6 kWh to 17.7 kWh
LG Energy Solution will start selling its new enblock S batteries on the US market in November.
