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Reeves reaffirmed the £3.4 billion Warm Homes Plan, but there was little concrete promise to support domestic decarbonisation. Image: Rachel Reeves/LinkedIn. On October 30, Labor Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the government’s first budget since it came to power on July 4. With a mixed response from the industry, the budget promises higher oil and gas taxessupport for electric vehicle (EV) production and made the first £125m available to Labour’s Great British Energy Company. GB Energy aims to solve the problem of high energy prices, financing and developing sustainable generation in the UK. Vicky Parker, energy and utilities leader at law…
Despite the continued implementation of industrial strategies in other countries, the value of China’s exports will exceed $340 billion by 2035, the International Energy Agency said. October 31, 2024 Pilar Sanchez Molina By pv magazine Spain The value of the global market for six major mass-produced clean energy technologies – solar, wind, electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, electrolysers and heat pumps – almost quadrupled between 2015 and 2023, to more than $700 billion, or roughly the half the value of the world market. value of all natural gas produced in the world that year. According to the latter Perspectives on energy…
Researchers in India have proposed a new set of techniques to reduce total harmonic distortions during islanding, which occur in distributed generation systems when there are disturbances in the power grid. Compared to conventional approaches, it reportedly achieves faster detection times by using real-time data analysis and dynamically adapting to changing grid conditions. October 31, 2024 Emiliano Bellini Researchers from GLA University in India have developed a series of harmonic mitigation techniques for island conditions. “The novelty of this work lies in the unique combination of passive and active sensing strategies, optimized by adaptive control mechanisms that increase both reliability…
Field sales software SalesRabbit announced the launch of its native Solar energy design toola new addition to the SalesRabbit platform. This tool aims to further streamline the solar sales process by empowering solar sales teams to fully design and present solar proposals within the SalesRabbit ecosystem. By integrating this tool with SalesRabbit’s existing Solar Proposals capabilities, the field sales management platform now provides a complete solution for roof sales and solar teams, allowing reps to manage the entire sales process from start to finish within a single piece of software . The new Solar Design tool simplifies the process of…
Verano Energy, a renewable energy developer headquartered in Chile, has started construction on a 200 MW solar project in western Argentina. The installation must be completed and connected before the end of 2025. October 31, 2024 Patrick Jowett Image: Vick Bufano, Unsplash Chilean renewable energy developer Verano Energy has broken ground on a 200 MW solar project in Mendoza, western Argentina. The project must be completed before the end of 2025. According to an update on LinkedIn, Verano Energy has fully developed the project, with all registrations, environmental impact assessments and electrical studies completed. The company said it is working…
Scientists have created a model to study bifacial PV thermal (BPVT) solar panels using jet impingement and built an experimental setup to validate it. They achieved a thermal efficiency of 62.28%, while the electrical efficiency peaked at 11.22%. October 31, 2024 Lior Kahana An international research group led by scientists from Scotland’s University of Strathclyde conducted an energy, economic and environmental analysis of BPVT solar panels using jet impingement for cooling. The team developed a numerical model of the system and built a realistic experimental setup to validate it. They achieved a thermal efficiency of 62.28%, while the electrical efficiency…
Sonnenwagen Aachen, a student team from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, took second and third place at the iLumen European Solar Challenge 2024, sharing the podium with the Belgian KU Leuven team, which took first place. October 31, 2024 Valerie Thompson The solar car team Sonnenwagen Aachen from Germany won two of the top three places during the iLumen European Solar Challenge 2024 in Belgium in September. The solar car Covestro Photon came second and the newer car, Covestro Adelie, third. The Belgian KU Leuven Innoptus Solar Team, which also won the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2023 in Australia, took…
The prospect of installing solar panels can be exciting. The idea of generating your own electricity, minimizing your carbon footprint and lowering your energy bills is motivating. But, you may wonder, can solar panels be installed on any type of roof? That’s a great question, and we’re here to answer it.
Recently imposed trade tariffs on aluminum extrusion imports were reversed by the U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday afternoon. Credit: Michael Pointner/Pixabay After a yearlong investigation by the Commerce Department, in which the department found that 14 countries were dumping and/or receiving foreign government assistance to produce cheaper aluminum extrusions, a majority of the ITC determined that the U.S. market was not being harmed by the countries investigated. According to U.S. Trade, all fourteen countries—China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates—imported aluminum extrusions in quantities harmful to U.S. market.…
The EU’s additional tariffs of up to 35.3% on Chinese electric vehicles anger Beijing The EU’s decision to impose heavy tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars sparked anger in Beijing on Wednesday after an anti-subsidy investigation found that Chinese support was undermining European carmakers. The additional taxes are controversial, with strong opposition from Germany and Hungary, for fear of provoking China’s ire and sparking a bitter trade war. Beijing denounced the European Union’s decision, saying it did not “agree or accept” the tariffs and had filed a complaint under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism. “China will take all…