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The Spanish government has assigned € 1.2 billion ($ 1.26 billion) for seven green hydrogen clusters concentrated in Aragon and Andalusia. In the meantime, an EU consortium started its work to develop diagnostic and monitoring tools for water electrolyzers. February 21, 2025 Sergio Matalucci The Spanish government has published the provisional call for subsidies for large renewable hydrogen valleys in the country. The government wants to allocate € 1.2 billion ($ 1.24 billion) to Nextgezende -Funds to seven projects in Aragon, Andalusia, Castile and Leon, Catalonia and Galicia. “The seven beneficiaries of the H2 Valles program present developments with a…

McGrail (photo) will work on a first six -month contract, on secondment of Renewableucuk, and recruitment for the permanent CEO will start soon. Image: Renewableuk. The solar industry welcomes the appointment of Renewableuc CEO Dan McGrail as interim -CEO of Great British Energy. MCGRAIL is currently leading the trade body that represents companies that develop wind, golf, golf, tidal, storage and green hydrogen projects in the UK and is also on the board for Windeurope. He was previously CEO of Siemens Engines and Managing Director of Siemens Power Generation. He joins Start-up Great British Energy Chair Juergen Maier, who served…

In a new weekly update for PV -MagazineOpis, a Dow Jones company, offers a quick look at the most important trends in the global PV industry. February 21, 2025 Opis The Global Polysilicon Marker (GPM), the OPIS -Benchmark for Polysilicon produced outside of China, remained stable this week at $ 20,360/kg, or $ 0.046/W, as a result of unchanged market fundamentals. The global polysilicon market continues to show stability, whereby suppliers mainly encourage long-term contract customers to adhere to payment schedules and to take monthly deliveries as agreed. The relatively low American import tariffs of Malaysia have reportedly sustained some…

In the German state of Sleeswijk-Holstein, an explosion tore the outer wall away from a show house equipped with solar panels and a residential battery. The poorly damaged building, which was empty at the time of the incident, will probably be demolished. February 21, 2025 Sandra Enkhardt Image: Schönberg Voluntary fire department By ESS News Serious explosion took place in Schönberg, in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Wednesday afternoon. A residential building was badly damaged with a whole outside wall. The voluntary fire brigade of Schönberg reported a loud bang followed by a pressure wave. Thick smoke then rose.…

Sunbooster GmbH offers 372 W flexible solar systems, including inverters and cabling. The price for the smallest version is € 500 ($ 524). February 21, 2025 Sandra Enkhardt By PV Magazine Germany Sunbooster GmbH offers bifacial solar systems that can be mounted on existing garden gates. The market launch of the vertical product of Sunbooster, which is intended as a replacement for conventional privacy screens, will take place in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with six different sets that were initially offered. The smallest system has an output of 372 W and is sold for € 500 ($ 524), including inverter…

OCI Energy and Arava Power are their second agreement concluded forms of a joint venture to develop Project Sunroper, a 260 MWAC Sun farm in Wharton County, Texas. The project is approximately 60 miles southwest of the center of Houston and offers a critical clean energy capacity for one of the highest areas with the demand for electricity in Texas and the United States. Project Sunner is planned to start construction in 2025. “The partnership between OCI Energy and ARAVA Power reflects our shared vision of promoting solutions for solar energy and improving the reliability of the network in the…

The weekly average electricity price was more than € 140 ($ 146.35)/MWh last week on most major European markets, due to a decrease in solar and wind production and the increased electricity demand, according to the latest analysis of ALEASOFT. February 20, 2025 Patrick Jowett Weekly average electricity prices rose on most major European markets in the second week of February, according to analysis of ALEASOFT Energy Prognosing. Compared to the week before, ALEASOFT noted that the price increases in the Belgian, British, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Nordic markets, while the Portuguese and Spanish markets were the only analyzed…

The Chinese Modulemaker is preparing to market 25.97%-efficient heterojunction solar cells based on copper metallization. The new products are based on ultra-narrow 9-micron bus bars, vacuum-dependent copper interconnects and own interface engineering. February 20, 2025 Vincent Shaw Spic’s Solar Module Factory in China Image: Spic Last week, State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) site broke a 10 GW very efficient hetero junction (HJT) solar cell and module production project in Suining, province of Sichuan. The factory will be owned by and will be managed by the unit Spic New Energy of the company, which has developed its own copper bus bar…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has approved a rate change with which large electricity customers, in particular large business customers, can pay a transmission -by -way peak demand costs instead of a volumetric transmission costs. February 20, 2025 John Fitzgerald Weaver By PV Magazine USA The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has approved a rate change with which large electricity customers can change their billing structure, with the aim of stimulating the installations of energy storage. From April, the large commercial and industrial customers of National Grid can choose as G-3 to have their transmission costs calculated based…

The result was confirmed by the Chinese National Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center. The tandem device relies on a lower cell based on a hetero junction design. February 20, 2025 Vincent Shaw Risen Solar announced that it achieved a power conversion of 30.99% for a tandem solar cell that trusted on an upper perovskiet cell and a soil silicon heterojunction (HJT) device. China’s National Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center has certified the results. “We have reached this milestone with a cell size of 10 mm x 10 mm,” said a company spokesperson told PV…