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A Great Egret walks on panels on the 2 MW floating solar park. Credit: OUC – The Reliable Florida company OUC announced the completion of one of the largest floating solar arrays in the United States, and the largest in the state. The 2 MW system – located at 5301 S. Conway Rd. in Orlando – consists of two arrays and more than 3,400 solar panels that send energy directly to the grid. One array faces south, while the other faces east and west. OUC is conducting extensive research into this hybrid approach to learn how future designs can best…
The solar carport in Apeldoorn, central Netherlands, will have more than 5,300 circular solar panels with an area of two hectares. It will accommodate 925 vehicles under a supporting structure made of wood and recycled steel. November 10, 2025 Patrick Jowett The Dutch financial services provider Achmea will build a large-scale circular solar carport on its site in Apeldoorn, a municipality in central Netherlands. For the development of the project, the company has entered into a cooperation agreement with strategic partner Equans, architectural and engineering firm Sweco and solar panel manufacturer Solarge. With an area of two hectares, the circular…
Heat Pumps Watch will work to change consumer attitudes towards heat pump adoption by providing evidence-based information about the technology, aimed at professionals, policy makers and homeowners. November 10, 2025 Patrick Jowett Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have founded a non-profit organization to collect, evaluate and present scientific findings on heat pumps. Heat Pumps Watch is funded by the Climate Neutrality Foundation and will work to provide independent, evidence-based information about heat pumps to professionals, policy makers and homeowners considering a change to their heating system. According to her website, Heat Pumps Watch will operate…
A 2 MW solar farm in Wallonia, Belgium, will use 50 kW hydrogen-producing solar panels developed by Solhyd, a spin-off of KU Lueven. The installation will be the first demonstration of Solhyd’s technology on a commercially relevant scale. November 10, 2025 Patrick Jowett A consortium of Belgian companies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build an energy system with hydrogen-producing solar panels in Wallonia. Belgium. The installation, billed as the world’s first solar-powered hydrogen park, will integrate 50 kW of hydrogen-producing solar panels developed by Solyhd into a traditional 2 MW solar farm connected to battery storage. The…
By Brad Kramer November 10, 2025 This edition of Projects Weekly kicks off with an initiative at Michigan State University to study how solar panels placed alongside farm crops could save water, improve soil health and support ecosystems. But wait, there’s more! Arevon has begun operations at two solar projects in Indiana, adding 264 MW of power to the grid. Everybody Solar completed a new 10.08-kW solar array and EV charging station at Cottonwood Gulch Expedition’s main offices in New Mexico. GS Power Partners has acquired a community solar project to advance education and biodiversity in Bethlehem, New York. CleanCapital…
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University have demonstrated a method to integrate chemically inert low-dimensional interface materials into the fabrication of inverted perovskite solar cells. Their prototype solar cells retained more than 93% of the initial energy conversion efficiency of 25.1% after 1,000 hours of operation and 98% after 1,100 hours at 85 C. November 10, 2025 Valerie Thompson A research team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed a selective template growth method that enables the use of certain chemically inert materials in perovskite thin films, overcoming issues with solubility processes and reactivity, to enable more stable yet…
A key infrastructure asset at one of the world’s largest batteries has reduced operations and delayed completion by more than six months, with few details made public about the critical asset. November 10, 2025 Tristan Rayner By ESS news Akaysha Energy has had problems with its Waratah Super Battery in Australia, which at 850 MW / 1,680 MWh will become one of the largest batteries in the world, both in terms of power and capacity. According to reporting from The Australian Financial Review, one of the BESS plant’s three high-voltage transformers suffered a “catastrophic failure” just days after final testing,…
Scientists in China have developed a new deep learning model based on the so-called ‘You Only Look Once’ algorithm, which requires only one forward propagation pass through the neural network to make predictions. November 10, 2025 Lior Kahana Researchers in China have developed a new deep learning model to detect defects in photovoltaic panels. The approach uses high-resolution visible light imaging to identify defects using an algorithm based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) deep learning framework, which makes predictions with just a single forward pass through the neural network. The new method also includes a hybrid attention transformer…
By Contributing Author November 10, 2025 Freeport Oil Company Limited (FOCOL), a leading energy supplier in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, expanded into renewable energy sources through its subsidiary Bahamas Solar & Renewables (BSR). With the mission ‘Fueling Growth for People’, BSR wanted to strengthen its communities through clean energy. The company took an unconventional path, bypassing a traditional EPC and instead hiring local contractors for civil and electrical work to maintain economic benefits within the community. However, building solar on an island comes with unique challenges. High winds, complex underground conditions and difficult logistics increase the risk.…
Manufacturer of solar panels Qcells announced on Friday that it would lay off a third of its workers at its two factories in Georgia. The 1,000 employees will temporarily see reduced wages and hours due to increased U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehensions of solar cells and other upstream panel components. Qcells will also lay off 300 agency workers at the two factories. Qcell’s 1.7 GW module factory in Dalton, Georgia The federal government has stepped up enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which bans Chinese goods made with forced labor from entering the United States.…