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Adani Green Energy has commissioned 3.13 GW of renewable energy capacity – 2.69 GW of solar and 438 MW of wind – during April-December 2024, taking its cumulative operational capacity to 11.6 GW. January 15, 2025 Uma Gupta Image: Adani Green Energy By pv magazine India India’s Adani Green Energy has released an operational update for the first nine months of the 2024-25 financial year, reporting a cumulative operational capacity of 11.6 GW as of December 31, 2024. This includes a greenfield addition of 3.13 GW of renewable energy capacity. About 2.1 GW of this total comes from solar power…
A solar project in New York by Standard Solar. Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to invest more than $1 billion to tackle the climate crisis and achieve a more sustainable and affordable future as part of her 2025 State of the State. This ambitious proposal would be the largest climate investment in the history of the United States. state, generate thousands of jobs, reduce household energy bills and reduce harmful pollution. This announcement demonstrates New York State’s continued commitment to deploying renewable energy, advancing clean transportation and achieving a low-carbon economy, and exploring emerging technologies that can support low-carbon goals…
Researchers in China have investigated the impact of phosphorus diffusion trap on industrial silicon heterojunction solar cells and found that higher efficiency can be achieved with optimized gas flow. January 15, 2025 Emiliano Bellini A Chinese research team led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University evaluated its impact to get in the production of heterojunction (HJT) solar cell technologies and has concluded that this can help improve device efficiency. “We specifically investigated the impact of the phosphorus diffusion gettering (PDG) process on n-type HJT solar cells,” says the corresponding author of the study, Wenzhong Shen, told pv magazine. “We successfully fabricated…
Neuron Energy has opened a 1.5 GWh lithium-ion battery factory in Chakan, India, to produce batteries for electric vehicles, energy storage and telecom solutions. January 15, 2025 Uma Gupta By pv magazine India Neuron Energy, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles, has launched a lithium-ion battery factory in Chakan, India, with an annual capacity of 1.5 GWh. The facility, spanning 5 hectares, will produce high-quality batteries for two-wheelers, three-wheelers, golf carts, drones, battery energy storage systems (BESS) and telecom solutions. Mumbai-based Neuron Energy has invested approximately INR 250 million ($2.9 million) in the facility, which includes an experience center…
Researchers have constructed a miniature PV field at an altitude of 2,500 meters in Switzerland. They tested it in 80 different positioning settings and compared the results with the Swiss government’s guidelines for a subsidy program. They found that the simulated yield was underestimated by up to 16%. January 15, 2025 Lior Kahana Scientists from ZHAW University of Applied Sciences Zurich have tested a miniature of a fully automatic high-alpine multi-row PV array. The miniature was designed as a 1:12 scale of an alpine PV field and was installed at an altitude of approximately 2,500 meters in Davos, Switzerland. It…
By Contributing Author January 15, 2025 Lithium batteries are enabling the global energy transition to electricity in many industries and are experiencing explosive growth in demand across applications and regions. As several gigawatt-hour factories launched in recent years begin to supply new batteries at scale, a second-life battery economy has emerged and is growing dynamically. The lower price of a recycled lithium battery pack brings major sustainability benefits: avoiding emissions of the energy needed to produce new batteries, delayed recycling and diverting waste. The main challenge in reusing batteries lies in trust: in the absence of a mandatory digital battery…
Savant is partnering with energy sales and installation network Sunder Energy to expand access to Savant’s Smart Electrical Panel in the United States. Sunder will also begin offering Savant’s scalable energy storage solutions as part of a comprehensive intelligent power management system. “Savant’s groundbreaking ecosystem for easy-to-use energy management will elevate Sunder’s smart power offerings to the forefront of innovation in the burgeoning solar industry while delivering an unprecedented user experience to their customers,” explained Bryce Judd, Chief Revenue Office at Savant. “Homeowners will appreciate the myriad benefits of an intelligent managed power system plus the ability to add smart lighting,…
Nextracker and the University of California Berkeley Engineering (UC Berkeley) formed a partnership aimed at advancing solar power plant technology to meet rising global energy demands. The collaboration will establish the CALNEXT Center for Solar Energy Research, which will drive a research program and a planned state-of-the-art solar test field. Nextracker has contributed a $6.5 million gift to support the initiative, which is already soliciting and receiving research proposals from UC Berkeley Engineering faculty and graduate students. Credit: Nextracker The CALNEXT Center for Solar Energy Research focuses on advancing solar energy technology by leveraging UC Berkeley’s academic expertise and research…
In the ongoing race to do more with less, solar panels in the utility space have become increasingly powerful, as well as larger, heavier and bulkier. To reduce the cost and weight of the two largest components on a bifacial module, manufacturers have reduced each piece of glass to a thickness of 2mm. But a new problem soon arose on two-sided projects in the central United States: These panels with thinner glass suffered more damage than panels with backing plates during the region’s usual hailstorms. Maybe cheaper, lighter glass wasn’t the right choice. Solar panel manufacturers discovered that the simplest…
Floating solar panels could advance U.S. energy goals Federal reservoirs have the potential to contribute significantly to meeting the nation’s solar energy needs, according to a recent study published in Solar Energy. Geospatial scientists Evan Rosenlieb and Marie Rivers, along with Aaron Levine, a senior legal and regulatory analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), conducted the first comprehensive analysis to determine the energy potential of floating solar panel projects at the federal level. quantify. private or regulated reservoirs. Their findings show that these reservoirs could support floating solar panels that could generate up to…