Author: solarenergy
China installed 7.36 GW new solar sun in August, resulting in the year-to-date capacity additions up to 230.61 GW and total power generation capacity at 3.69 TW. September 26, 2025 Vincent Shaw China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) said this week that the country added 7.36 GW new solar capacity in August, a decrease of 33.3% from July. During the first eight months, the new solar capacity reached 230.61 GW. For comparison: China installed 16.4 GW of solar energy in August 2024, with 140 GW deployed in the first eight months of that year. By the end of August, the total…
The Denver-based worrying claims that its sodium ion battery system offers the lowest operating costs of any energy storage technology on the market. September 26, 2025 Mariha Maisch By ESS News Peak Energy announced the successful implementation and operation of the first sodium battery system on the schedule in the US on Friday. For the first time unveiled in July, The 3.5 MWh sodium ion storage system from Peak Energy now works at Solar and Renewable Energy Test Facility Solartac in Watkins, Colorado. The gratan installation is carried out in collaboration with nine utilities and independent power producers (IPPs), making…
The French startup Ecojoko has introduced a contactor that controls electric water heaters to increase self-consumption of solar energy, with field tests that have been going on since the summer. September 26, 2025 Marie Beyer By PV Magazine France The French startup Ecojoko is expanding its home energy management offer with a special contactor to arrange electric boilers. “The first tests with real users took place this summer and we accelerated the launch for the VAT reduction of 5.5%,” said Pierre Picavet, marketing director of the company. PV Magazine France. The Ecojoko control package already includes the associated assistant of…
Orka Energía has unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that collects and updates data on more than 4,000 renewable energy projects developed in Spain, including capacity, status, substations and developers. September 26, 2025 Pilar Sánchez Molina By PV Magazine Spain Orka Energía has created an artificial intelligence platform that optimizes different phases in the development of projects for renewable energy. It is the first platform that compiles all renewable projects in Spain, including their processing status, technology, the substation with which they are connected, the developer, installed capacity, favorable or unfavorable resolution, the name of the park and the access and…
The University of Pittsburgh announced that it is launching a new one non -graduated degree in natural gas, renewable energy sources and oil engineering (Gro)Designed to prepare the next generation of engineers to deliver extensive energy solutions. By combining traditional oil and guest technology with renewable systems in the various academic and research portfolios of the Swanson School of Engineering in energy, the program ensures that graduates can adapt as the global energy requirements evolve. “The industry and society are at a pivot point while our energy portfolio adapts to a complex balance of components, whether it is traditional oil…
China Datang Corp. says that his 2,000 V-Sonne test base in the Chinese province of Hainan will validate high-voltage modules under tropical coastal conditions. September 26, 2025 Vincent Shaw China Datang Corp. Through his subsidiary Datang Hainan Energy Development has unveiled the first 2,000 V photovoltaic validation and certification base in the world in Wenchang, the province of Hainan in China. The facility, which is intended to validate the next generation of high-voltage PV systems under tropical coastal conditions, is intended to bridge the laboratory theory and Real-World performance in high temperature, high-huminity and salt vessels and salt vessels and…
The BASF of Germany has started building an industrial-scale heat pump that will use electricity from renewable energy sources to produce up to 500,000 MT CO2-free steam every year. Commissioning is planned for mid -2027. September 26, 2025 Patrick Jowett A groundbreaking ceremony has taken place for one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation. The industrial heat pump is being developed by the German chemical manufacturer BASF in collaboration with project partner Gig Karasek on Basf’s Ludwigshafen site in the West Germany. The heat pump, with a thermal output of 50 MW, will use electricity…
Self -regulated molecular anchoring stimulates stable high efficiency perovskiet solar cells While Perovskiet solar cells (PSCs) are getting closer to commercialization, researchers treat hidden performance losses on the buried electron transport interimface. A team led by Prof. dr. Guozhen Liu, Prof. dr. Zhihua Zhang, and Prof. dr. Xu Pan has developed a strategy for one molecule called self -regulated bilateral anchoring that improves efficiency and sustainability in both rigid and flexible devices. The buried interface is susceptible to oxygen vacancies, incorrectly aligned energy levels, mechanical stress and solvent -related instability, all of which hinder long -term performance. The team used…
Vertical Solar Specialist about Easy Solar has broken his own record for the world’s largest vertical solar on the roof with a system of 320 kW in the Norwegian city of Tromsø. September 24, 2025 Patrick Jowett Norwegian startup About easy solar energy has used what it claims to be the world’s largest installation on the roof of vertical solar panels in Tromsø, north Norway. The 320 kW of solar array has 6,400 vertical solar panels installed on the top of the logistics Terminal Tromsøterminals. According to the company, it was mounted by three people in four days About Easy…
Swiss company Insolight has inaugurated a 250 kW of agrivoltaic installation on apple, peer and apricot orchards in conte, which produced 300 MWh per year for the grid, in collaboration with Agroscope, Romane Energie and the Canton of Valais. September 25, 2025 Francois Puthod By PV Magazine France Swiss company Insolight ordered its latest Agrivoltaic Installation on 18 September, built on the site of one of its partners, the Agroscope Federal Center for Agronomy, in Conhe, Switzerland. “This isn’t our first pilot installation on the site. We started in 2021 with two small solar demonstrators that were used to power…