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Climate policy is a contentious issue in parliament, especially in view of the upcoming elections. Moving the date means decisions will have to be speeded up or abolished altogether. Image: Rishi Sunak via Twitter. On May 22, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the next general election will take place on July 4 this year. The announcement, long before the major political parties began meaningful campaigning, came as a surprise to most political commentators. Sunak said: “I have never and will never let the people of this country face the darkest of days alone,” and acknowledged that “Putin’s invasion…
Waaree Energies says it will supply 445 MW of its 540/545Wp double-glazed PV modules to Statkraft India’s solar projects in Rajasthan, India. May 24, 2024 Uma Gupta By pv magazine USAWaaree Energies, India’s largest solar panel manufacturer, said this week it has won a contract to supply 445 MW of its bifacial modules to Statkraft India’s single-site PV projects in Bikaner, Rajasthan.It will supply its 540/545Wp double-glazed bifacial modules. Delivery of the modules is scheduled between May and August 2024.“This partnership with Statkraft India represents a critical step in our collective mission to contribute to the transformation of renewable energy…
About 60% of California energy customers have integrated battery energy storage into their rooftop solar installations. However, a “continued downturn” is expected for the market. May 24, 2024 Ryan KennedyBy pv magazine USACalifornia transitioned its rooftop solar policy on April 15, 2023, eliminating net energy metering (NEM) and moving to a net billing rate structure (NBT). This change reduced the rate paid to customers for exporting their excess solar production to the grid by approximately 80%. A year later, Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (LNBL) has a report evaluating changes in the state’s rooftop solar market. LNBL found that rooftop solar…
Scientists in China built a four-terminal tandem perovskite cell for the first time, with a 17.88% efficient perovskite device on the top and a 7.85% efficient lower antimony selenide cell on the bottom. The main features of the tandem cell are the transparent conductive electrode used to enhance the spectral response of the top cell and the “double” electron transport layer of the antimony selenide cell. May 24, 2024 Emiliano BelliniA group of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have fabricated a four-terminal (4T) tandem solar cell based on an upper cell that relies on a…
The BechtelThe constructed Cutlass Solar 2 project in Fort Bend, Texas, has been completed and is generating electricity at full capacity for the first time. The 218 MW solar installation delivered for Sabanci climate technologies includes almost half a million solar panels spread over 1,100 hectares.The project now sends enough clean renewable energy to the grid to power 40,000 homes – a milestone ahead of the 13-month delivery schedule. Cutlass Solar 2 is the second solar facility in Texas built by Bechtel, which completed the neighboring Cutlass Solar 1 plant in January 2023. In total, Cutlass Solar 1 and Cutlass…
Calculating expected revenue maximizes ROI, and revenue forecasting is essential for making investment decisions. Image: Vattenfall. The market for bundled battery storage is currently on the rise, says Francisco del Rio de Pablo of NTR. Speaking on a panel at Solar Media’s Renewable Energy Revenue Summit 2024he said he foresees the market “growing very rapidly and enormously across Europe.” At the moment, he added, Britain is the most advanced market. There is a growing demand for energy storage in Europe, but regulatory barriers and incentives are needed to overcome these. Long-term investment scenarios and certainty of income are crucial. For…
A corner of a planted managed forest in the central coastal province of Quảng Trị. VNA/VNS Photo Thanh ThủyQUẢNG TRỊ – Local people are happy and eager to benefit from forest protection and carbon credit sales in the central coastal province of Quảng Trị.“Everyone feels happy when they receive the money,” Hồ Văn Chiến told the online newspaper Vietnamnet.Chiến, 64, head of the Community Forest Management Board in Chênh Vênh village, Hướng Hóa district of the province, has participated in local forest patrols for the past eight years.He said the board of directors, established in 2017, which was tasked with…
As the federal government places increasing emphasis on solar energy, the cost of mowing and property maintenance in the solar industry will become an increasing necessity. In response to this growth, Mach, a manufacturer of autonomous technologies, announced the launch of advanced technologies tailored for solar field mowing applications. By leveraging Mach’s proven foundation of technologies in navigation, path planning, vehicle networking and sensor fusion, Mach has been able to create a highly adaptable solution for autonomous solar field operations. This enables importing location plans, mapping task progress, vision-based steering through masts and GPS denied operations, all while maintaining safe…
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) says it has purchased 790 MW of solar panels from Yingli through a tender process at $0.12/W. May 22, 2024 Vincent Shaw Image: Mariana Proenca, UnsplashCNOOC has announced the results of its latest centralized tender for n-type solar panels. Yingli secured the qualification of the first winning bidder with a unit price bid of CNY0.84 ($0.12)/W, followed by Trina Solar and Das Solar. The total bid was 790 MW, excluding 580 W n-type monocrystalline bifacial modules.GCL Perovskite has begun construction of a large-scale commercial production base for gigawatt-scale perovskite modules in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province.…
Danish citizens can again apply for heat pump subsidies from May 27. A subsidy of DKK 17,000 ($2,469) will be available for air-to-water pumps and DKK 27,000 for liquid-to-water heat pumps. May 23, 2024 Patrick Jowett The Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) has said that subsidies for housing heat pump The installations will be available again from May 27.According to the agency websitecitizens can receive uniform subsidies from the heat pump pool for individual heat supply, regardless of the size of a home, as long as an installation contributes to savings in energy consumption.The scheme is mainly intended for citizens who…