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European renewable energy company NTR has raised € 65 million for monvallet, a ready-made solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio. Financing marks the construction of the Irish factory of NTR for the L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) III Fund. The company has collected the funds in addition to Rabobank and Siemens Financial Services, in which Siemens Bank provided an initial debt of € 65 million for the first two solar projects, which are part of a broader potential portfolio financing facility. The financing includes an initial loan of € 65 million with additional and accordion facilities, which means…
The Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) says that all solar modules that are on their way to the European Economic Environment, Switzerland and the United Kingdom must come from production locations that are certified for environmental, social and administrative standards and traceability of the supply chain. September 18, 2025 Patrick Jowett The SSI has adopted a new series of binding goals and reporting requirements for the members of the manufacturer. The initiative, which was first launched in 2022, was a sun -specific sustainability assurance program developed by SolarPower Europe and Solar Energy UK. It currently represents more than 70% of global…
The Airport of Cologne-Bonn has installed 80 self-adhesive photovoltaic panels on the 27-meter chimney of its Cogeneneration factory in a pilot project using Heliatek modules. September 18, 2025 Pilar Sánchez Molina Cologne-Bonn airport in Germany has launched a pilot photovoltaic installation. The system consists of 80 glue solar panels mounted on the 27-meter chimney of the CO-generation factory of the airport. The new installation has a collective surface of approximately 70 m². The modules are located on the south on the dome surface of the chimney. The pilot system generates up to 4,400 kWh per year, roughly the same as…
Intersolar & Energy Storage Noord -Arikika (Iesna) announced the 2026 Solar Games In San Diego, California, will contain two important changes: Point -based system: instead of a single elimination, teams are now fighting every round for points. The teams with the highest totals move forward and ensure that the top performers are in the final. Updated suitability: teams that participated two years in a row now only have to wait a year before they are applied again. These changes offer competitors more opportunities to present their skills and strategy-while creating an energetic experience for spectators. The rewards remain the same:…
The sale of module and cell production equipment to which Solar Americas and Babacomari North Solar further thin chances of every Meyer Burger -Rehurror of his domestic production. September 18, 2025 Ben Santarris By PV Magazine USA Producer Meyer Burger Group of Zonnetechnology has surrendered his drive to restructure and survive as one company whole beyond insolvencySaying that an investor probably doesn’t seem to be coming up. The company also said that the American factory machines and equipment sold. For the American Zonne market, the announcements seem to postpone all remaining hope to save the output of the company in…
Octopus Energy Group will accelerate its technology company, Kraken, Spin-Off, in a movement that, according to her, will accelerate the global expansion of the platform.The AI-driven platform of Kraken has reached a contracted annual turnover of US $ 500 million (£ 293 million), quadruples its growth in three years. It has been contracted for more than 70 million household and business accounts worldwide and processed as a operating system for utilities 15 billion new data points per day.Kraken already has license agreements with energy yors, including EDF” E.on nextNational Grid US, Origin Energy, Complitude and Tokyo Gas, and the step…
China has a 100 MW hybrid energy storage facility connected to the schedule. It integrates super capacitors and lithium ion batteries, which sets up a new benchmark for ultra-fast frequency regulation services. September 18, 2025 Vincent Shaw By ESS News A 100 MW hybrid frequency regulation factory in the northern province of Shanxi, North China, was connected to the grid at the end of August and is expected to take full commercial operation according to the developers in September after testing in September. The facility is promoted as the world’s largest supercondensator-based installation and combines a supercondensatoraRay of 58 MW/30…
A research team based in China and the United States has developed electroactive polymer -switterions to change zinc oxide interlayers in organic solar cells. Their work appeared to passivate defects in organic solar cells, improving the performance and stability of the device. September 18, 2025 Patrick Jowett A group of scientists based in China and the United States used PolyMeerzwittersions that include conjugated units to change zinc oxide interlayers in organic solar cells. Their work is presented in the research paper ‘Modification of zinc oxide intermediate layers with naphthalene-based polymer switterions for efficient organic solar cells”Available in the magazine Portable…
Main demolition processes identified in the next generation of wide bandgap perovskiet solar cells A new study in materials Futures sheds light on the most important demolition paths that influence the scalable wide band gap (WBG) perovskiet solar cells, a promising material for tandem solar technologies. Researchers from IMEC, Hasselt University and Ghent University in Belgium have shown how thermal stress – either in dark or in lighting – plays a central role in the instability of devices. Their results show that under dark circumstances the cargo transport layers first fail, while under light exposure the perovskietbsorber itself undergoes serious…
Scientists in Hungary have built a prototype of a thermal distillation device, supported by PV power. The PV panels use an IoT component that is self-traveling when dust is detected and cools itself when the temperatures are too high. The system achieved a daily freshwater yield of 6.1 l/m2⋅dag. September 18, 2025 Lior Kahana A research group from the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences has developed a new thermal water distillation device with PV-driven auxiliary systems. With the help of a component Internet of Things (IoT), the system travels the PV system for optimum results. Within the IoT…