Ranking the world’s largest producers of solar energy based on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/12/12/ranking-the-top-15-nations-for-solar-energy-capacity/
#sustainability, #solar, #scale, #utility, #global, #iea, #pv, #installations, #procurement
Tokyu Land and Dutch offshore PV specialist SolarDuck are set to develop a floating solar project in the Tokyo Bay area.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/12/japans-first-offshore-floating-solar-demonstrator/
#floating, #offshore, #scale, #utility, #pv, #solar
At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5-day mission to the Moon.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/orion-comes-home-to-earth
#solarpower, #sustainability, #green, #PV, #RSS
The Australian state of Queensland's push to source 70% of its energy supplies from renewables by 2032 has received a boost with the completion of the 162 MW Columboola Solar Farm.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/07/sterling-wilson-switches-on-162-mw-solar-plant-in-australia/
#utility, #modules, #scale, #photovoltaics, #photovoltaic, #markets, #pv
The Japanese solar market reached a cumulative installed PV capacity of 78.4 GW at the end of 2021, according to a new report from IEA-PVPS. Japanese analyst Izumi Kaizuka told pv magazine that the country could annually install up 6 GW of new solar in both 2022 and 2023.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/06/japan-on-track-to-hit-90-gw-of-pv-capacity-by-end-2023/
#japan, #photovoltaic, #pv, #photovoltaics, #policy, #markets
Scientists used high energy x-rays to investigate the solid-electrolyte interphase, a chemical layer in batteries that's key to stabilizing lithium metal anodes. Chemists unraveled this complex chemical mechanisms that is crucial for boosting energy density.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221205153726.htm
#PV, #RSS, #sustainability, #green
Canadian Solar has signed a 256MW module supply agreement with South African independent power producer (IPP) SOLA Group.
https://www.pv-tech.org/canadian-solar-secures-256mw-module-supply-deal-in-south-africa/
#news, #module, #supply, #pv, #deals, #modules, #canadian, #africa, #solar
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes' facility in Beloit, Wisconsin, has been built with financial and technical support from the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. It will produce molybdenum-99 without using highly enriched uranium.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-of-US-radioisotope-facility-complete?feed=feed
#solarpower, #futurology, #solar, #RSS, #PV
A proposed 75 MW solar-to-hydrogen facility in California could mark the start of Fusion Fuel’s green hydrogen vision for the United States.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/29/portuguese-company-to-build-75-mw-solar-to-hydrogen-facility-in-california/
#utility, #r&d, #hydrogen, #pv, #scale, #technology
Canada is set to install 500 MW of new solar in 2022, bringing its total capacity to about 5 GW, according to data from Canmet Energy. The country is expected to hit 35 GW of total solar capacity by 2050.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/29/canada-set-to-hit-5-gw-milestone/
#utility, #policy, #markets, #pv, #residential, #installations
US researchers have installed a pilot 4.3 kW solar system at Oliktok Point, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. They want to determine which PV system designs and technologies are most efficient in extremely cold climates with limited sunlight.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/23/wednesday-1-solar-for-extreme-arctic-conditions/
#commercial, #upstream, #industrial, #installations, #modules, #manufacturing, #pv
The 300 MW La Pimienta solar project is now selling electricity to Mexican utility CFE under a 15-year power purchase agreement. It is Mexico's second-largest operational PV facility.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/24/atlas-renewable-energy-switches-on-300-mw-solar-project-in-mexico/
#scale, #photovoltaics, #pv, #markets, #photovoltaic, #mexico, #utility
SolarDuck, an offshore solar developer in the Netherlands, has been chosen to build a 5 MW floating PV project with energy storage. It aims to start operations in 2026.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/14/offshore-wind-farm-in-north-sea-to-host-5-mw-floating-pv-plant/
#installations, #pv, #storage, #floating, #markets, #scale, #utility
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a $216 million program to explore turning the Shawnee Fossil Plant, a closed coal ash storage location, into a utility-scale solar project.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/14/tva-aims-to-build-100mw-solar-installation-on-retired-coal-site-in-kentucky/
#installations, #policy, #pv, #coal, #markets, #scale, #utility
Sweden's Vattenfall has revealed plans to build a subsidy-free, large-scale solar plant along the A6 highway in the Netherlands. Construction is expected to begin in 2024, with operations to start in late 2024 or early 2025.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/08/vattenfall-to-build-solar-array-along-dutch-highway/
#installations, #photovoltaics, #scale, #pv, #photovoltaic, #utility, #markets
The US Administration has issued a new report setting out initial priorities - including fusion - it says will enable it to reach net-zero by 2050, and is providing more than USD1.5 billion under Inflation Reduction Act funding to upgrade facilities and modernise infrastructure at the national laboratories which will undertake the research and innovation to support this.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Historic-USD1-5-billion-upgrade-for-US-national-la?feed=feed
#PV, #sustainability, #RSS, #renewable, #news
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) says that 691 MW of new PV systems were subsidized under the country’s EEG renewables incentive program in September.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/01/germany-installed-750-mw-of-solar-in-september/
#markets, #industrial, #pv, #residential, #scale, #utility, #commercial
Still as striking to look at as ever.
https://insideevs.com/news/619120/tesla-cybertruck-original-prototype-california-college-design/
#futurology, #energy, #green, #PV, #sustainability
A Swedish team has inaugurated a pilot facility to mass produce algae material that can potentially boost silicon solar module efficiency by 4% and thin film by 36%. The algae are added to the encapsulant in silicon-based modules or to the anti-reflective coating on the glass of thin film modules. The team estimates the resulting modules would be 3.9% cheaper.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/10/28/algae-could-boost-solar-panel-efficiency-by-4/
#renewable, #energy, #technology, #r&d, #pv, #sustainability, #innovation
US thin film module manufacturer First Solar has secured a 2GW deal with developer Swift Current Energy for its thin film solar modules, which will be supplied in 2025-26.
https://www.pv-tech.org/first-solar-swift-current-energy-announce-2gw-pv-module-deal-in-the-us/
#solar, #swift, #first, #pv, #news, #plants, #power
