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China and Chile led battery storage Implementations in an even divided scene than in previous months, but a lower general total was installed on a grid scale. May 21, 2025 Tristan Rayner By ESS News Market information company RHO Motion, the power -retarded arm of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, says that the almost 9 GWH of the new Global Global Battery Energy Storage System (Bess) followed that commercial activities introduced in April 2025. This came from a total of 3,333 MW/8,890 MWh of grid -scale projects. According to RHO Motion’s “Battery Energy Stationary Storage monthly database”, this April capacity is 13%…

The European Commission has selected projects for € 992 million ($ 1.1 billion) in EU public financing, while the Japanese government has agreed to provide $ 4.80 in subsidies for hydrogen fuel cell cars. May 21, 2025 Sergio Matalucci The European Commission Has selected 15 renewable hydrogen production projects for € 992 million in EU public financing in the European Economic Area (EEA). “The projects, located in five countries, are expected to produce nearly 2.2 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen in ten years,” said the European executive body. Eight projects will be in Spain, three in Norway, two in Germany,…

By Brad Kramer May 20, 2025 The bill for reconciliation budget that is currently being considered in the American House of Representatives would be the economic profit of the renewable energy industry. The so -called “Big, Beautiful Bill” contains most of the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump, but the Megabill also contains large cuts on renewable energy. As is currently built, the legislation refers to the financing of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and withdraws tax credits for clean energy that have stimulated the domestic development and production of solar sun in the last three years. The renewable power…

Silfab Solar has taken over the technological patent portfolio of ENPV with advanced recovery designs for solar cells. EnpvThe Solar Technology division of EnbwAn energy supply company in Germany, developed Topcon production process. The flagship design, self -guineaway back contact (SABC), will immediately be integrated into the production efforts of Silfab. The method allows precise alignment and improved electrical performance in cell and module manufacturing, which will support the continuous innovation in Silfab’s Elite series of solar panels that use a conductive and unique recovery designs afterwards. Silfab will also keep the trademark of SABC technology. “Silfab Solar is at…

Scientists in Turkiye claim that they have developed a nickel-based topcon sun cell with a minimum silver content and almost the same efficiency as completely silver metallized counterparts. The device uses a new nickel contact method that requires a trail of silver of only 0.5 mg/w. May 21, 2025 Emiliano Bellini A group of researchers at the ODTU-Gunam Research Institute in Turkiye claims to have manufactured a topcon sun cell with a nickel (NI) contact and considerably lower silver (AG) content, where the device has achieved almost the same efficiency as topcon devices produced through full silver metallization. “Silver scarcity…

Dinorwig was built in a former slate quarry and opened in 1984. Image: Flickr user Denis Egan First Hydro Company (FHC), a joint venture (JV) 75%owned by ENGIE, prepares large renovations with the 1,728 MW Dinorwig Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) facility. It follows the recent completion of an eight -year renovation program in the other pumped Hydro Asset from the JV, Ffestinog. The partner of the French Energy Major Engie in FHC is 25% owner CDPQ, an investment group from Canada. Dinorwig, in North Wales, was the most recently built Phes factory in the UK, opened by Koning Charles…

Iraq’s first fully off-grid solar-powered community, developed by the Rwanga Foundation, was inaugurated earlier this week. The village has almost 200 solar panels that will promote houses, a mosque, a school and a community hall. May 21, 2025 Patrick Jowett The Rwanga Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the Iraqi city of Erbil, has inaugurated the first entirely entirely on solar energy-driven village of the country. The Kulak Solar Village, located in the Harir district in the Kurdistan region in Northern Iraq, will offer residents around the clock. Local Press has reported the Solar Village that contains 195 solar panels…

The Japan -based Startup PXP Corporation and JGC Japan Corporation, a unit of JGC Corporation, are working together on a 1 kW of one -year project to test lightweight chalcopyrite panels in Yokohama City. May 21, 2025 Valerie Thompson JGC Japan Corporation, an engineering, purchasing and building unit of JGC Holdings Corporation, and PXP Corporation, a developer of flexible, lightweight PV module technologies, working together on a year, 1 kw, grid-coppyrite, a developer of flexible, lightweight PV module technologies2) Solar panels on a building in Yokohama City. Cugase2 Has an energy band gap of 1.7 EV and has been used…

The Ecoprogetti of Italy has developed an automated photovoltaic recycling line that separates and repairs up to 100% of the aluminum, copper, glass, plastic and silicon in solar panels. It can process a maximum of 60 panels per hour while it uses 40% less energy than other solutions on the market. May 20, 2025 Patrick Jowett The Italian provider of solar production equipment Ecoprogetti has developed an automatic system for recycling solar panel. A spokesperson for Ecoprogetti told PV -Magazine That the company “has developed real industrial recycling factories, designed to work continuously, reliable and with high productivity.” Since 2024,…

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have developed new Cerium-mented indium oxides for applications in hetero junction solar cells. A transparent conductive oxide built with the new connection has made a significant increase in the efficiency of power conversion possible. May 20, 2025 Emiliano Bellini Scientists from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands have a front-back contact silicon heterojunction (FBC-SHJ) solar cell manufactured with a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) based on cerium-reded indium oxide (ICO) with the aim of the opto-electric performance of the optoelectric performance of the opto-electric performance of the optoelectricianelectrician performance. “To further…