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Another solar project from Silicon Ranch. United Power, an electric cooperative serving Colorado’s northern frontier, announces the signing of a power purchase agreement for its newest solar resource, the 150 MW Byers Solar Farm. The new solar installation is being developed in collaboration with Silicon Ranch. “Byers Solar Farm continues United Power’s march toward energy independence,” said Mark A. Gabriel, president and CEO of United Power. both reduces our CO2 emissions and stabilizes our costs. Our vision to diversify and hyper-localize energy production will pay off for the cooperative’s members in an increasingly volatile energy market.” The solar farm will…
At the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, pv magazine spoke with two OPIS analysts about the current and expected price trajectory in the global supply chain. According to their analysis, overcapacity remains difficult to control, making an increase in solar panel prices very unlikely, at least in the near future. January 23, 2025 Emiliano Bellini According to Summer Zhang, Senior Analyst, Solar Supply Chain at OPIS, a Dow Jones company, there are some signs that solar panel prices could increase slightly in the second half of this year.go to pv magazine during the Word Future Energy Summit held…
A BESS project by Field that was completed around the turn of the year. Image: Trina Storage. There is now over 7 GWh of network-scale BESS capacity online in Britain, but 2024 saw a slowdown in both capacity additions and overall pipeline growth, while Ireland saw growth. This is evident from the latest figures from the UK Battery Storage Project Database Report from Solar Media Market Research, described in a blog on our sister site Energy storage.news this week. In 2024, around 1.5 GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity was completed in Britain, 28% less than in 2023.…
Slovakia-based solar energy provider Solargis has released the next generation of its Evaluate software. Evaluate 2.0 provides high-resolution solar and meteorological data, a 3D PV power plant designer, a PV component catalog and energy yield simulations. January 23, 2025 Patrick Jowett Solargis has launched a new cloud-based solution for the design and evaluation of PV projects. Evaluate 2.0 is the next generation of the PV data company’s Evaluate solution. It says the new solution – designed to serve developers, technology providers, investors and technical advisors – is the most advanced and comprehensive project design and evaluation platform to date in…
The King of Lesotho supplies green energy to Davos elites Lesotho’s King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global power brokers have gathered, to make a royal plea: invest in his tiny African nation’s green transition. The monarch traveled from his landlocked mountain kingdom in South Africa to promote his green energy fund during meetings with business and political leaders in the Swiss Alpine village. “Davos seems to be a magnet for political, economic and business leadership around the world,” King Letsie told AFP in an interview at the World Economic Forum. “We felt…
An international team investigating wide bandgap perovskite films has announced an effective technique to control crystal orientation without compromising charge transport. The new approach was demonstrated in an all-perovskite tandem solar cell with an open-circuit voltage of 2.21 V and a certified energy conversion efficiency of 29.1%. January 23, 2025 Valerie Thompson A team led by China’s Nanjing University has demonstrated a 0.049 cm2 all-perovskite tandem solar cell with reduced open-circuit voltage losses in the wide bandgap (WBG) perovskite subcell and improved overall efficiency. This result was achieved by suppressing non-radiative recombination using a two-dimensional perovskite as an intermediate phase…
Australian Powerhouse has installed a 60kVA off-grid solar panel in Northern Australia to power an external EV charger. The project is part of the 7,000 km WAEV network. January 23, 2025 Ev Foley By pv magazine Australia Powerhouse has installed a remote, off-grid 60kVA solar array at the Whim Creek Hotel in Australia’s Pilbara region, 1,639km northeast of Perth. The Whim Creek Hotel’s solar panel features two JinkoSolar panels SMA string inverters of the panels to charge the battery, and four Victron Quattro inverters to discharge the batteries and power a 50 kW electric vehicle (EV) charger, which can also…
By pv magazine USA In the first term of this two-part series on hail loss prevention, I presented the results of a real-world case study that demonstrated the effectiveness of the solar industry’s hail defenses. Specifically, three projects in Fort Bend County, Texas – Cutlass I, Cutlass II and Old 300 – successfully used defensive hail storage procedures to withstand a range of 1 in 500 year hail events, one of which produced hailstones up to 100 mm. as measured by radar. The hail defense success stories from Fort Bend County are in stark contrast to the significant damage suffered…
By Brad Kramer January 21, 2025 Seniors will have the opportunity to earn a renewable energy scholarship through a program created by SOLV Energy. The company is accepting applications for the PowerUp! Renewable Energy Scholarship, which is now in its third year. The PowerUp! The scholarship will award $1,500 to six U.S. high school seniors. To qualify, students are asked to demonstrate their passion for sustainability and share how they will apply their future education in a career related to clean energy. SOLV Energy works with project partners, local leaders, school districts and landowners to expand access to reliable, clean…
The Czech Republic installed 967 MW of solar energy in 2024, powered by residential, commercial and industrial (C&I) projects, which accounted for 930 MW of the total, says the Czech Solar Association (Solární Asociace). January 22, 2025 Patrick Jowett According to data from Solární Asociace, the Czech Republic will have added at least 967 MW of solar energy by 2024. The result builds on the 484 MW installed in the Czech Republic in the first six months of 2024 and in line with installation figures from 2023, when 970 MW were deployed. Jan Krčmář, executive director of the association, said…