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Company representatives agreed to the deal at a ceremony earlier this week. Image: Sungrow Sungrow, supplier of PV inverters and battery energy storage systems (BESS), has signed an agreement with two major developers to supply BESS systems for an upcoming storage project in the UK. Sungrow will supply 280 sets of its PowerTitan 2.0 liquid-cooled BESS units for the Hams Hall energy storage project, currently under development in North Warwickshire, England. The Hams Hall project, which was granted planning permission in May 2022, is a 350 MW/1750 MWh BESS project by Penso Power and Luminous Energy, funded by BW ESS.…

Finland’s Wartsila Energy has released a new turnkey battery energy storage system (BESS) with new fire safety features. September 5, 2024 Ev FoleyBy ESS newsFire safety is a key feature of Wärtsilä Energy’s new Quantum3 BESS, alongside upgrades in cybersecurity, energy density and sustainability.The Finland-based company’s AC block BESS builds on the Quantum2 model, which has undergone nearly 10,000 hours of fire safety testing, including fire extinguishing water and plume gas research.Wärtsilä said the Quantum3 meets the changing needs of customers and markets for network-scale energy storage, including Australia.Wärtsilä Energy Storage and Optimization Vice President Andrew Tang asserted that the…

BNZ, a Barcelona-based independent power producer (IPP), has announced a 49 MW solar project in northern Portugal in partnership with GRS, a Madrid-based solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor. September 5, 2024 Patrick Jowett BNZ, a Spanish IPP, is working with GRS, an EPC solar contractor under the Gransolar Group, on a 49 MW solar power plant in northern Portugal.The project, located near Vila Nova de Famalicão, will generate enough energy to power approximately 14,000 households. Construction is now underway and GRS is building the factory together with local company Triple Watt. BNZ has also signed a protocol with…

Module manufacturer Maxeon says U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have detained all of its panel imports from Mexico since July as the federal law enforcement agency investigates compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). September 5, 2024 Emiliano BelliniMaxeon, a Singapore-based PV module maker, said in its second-quarter earnings report that U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first time stopped solar panels imported from its module factories in Ensenada and Mexicali, Mexico. The company explained that US authorities are trying to determine whether the panels comply with the UFLPA.“These arrests involved both Performance Line panels manufactured…

There is a substantial need for large-scale BESS in Scotland to help offset regional supply and demand inequality in Britain. Image: Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit. The Scottish Government has approved the construction and operation of a 228 MW/456 MWh battery energy storage project (BESS) by developer Kona Energy. The 2-hour Smeaton BESS in East Lothian is strategically located to increase grid resilience and reduce grid constraints, Kona said. The nearby Torness nuclear power station will close in 2028, which will increase the usefulness of the Smeaton BESS, it added. Kona did not say when it expected the project to…

Oxford PV delivers its first commercial perovskite solar panels to US customers. The 72-cell solar panels have an efficiency of 24.5% and can generate up to 20% more energy than conventional silicon modules, according to the company. September 5, 2024 Patrick Jowett Perovskite solar specialist Oxford PV has announced the commercial launch of its perovskite tandem modules, delivered to US customers for the first time.The 72-cell solar panels are based on proprietary perovskite-on-silicon technology and can generate up to 20% more energy than conventional silicon modules, according to the company. Oxford PV adds that they are ideally suited for large-scale…

The 9 cm² cell consists of an upper cell based on a perovskite absorber and a lower cell with a heterojunction (HJT) structure. The results are better than the 28.4% efficiency achieved by CEA and Enel in December for the same type of cell. September 4, 2024 Emiliano Bellini Researchers from the French National Institute of Solar Energy (INES) – a division of the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) – and Italian renewable energy specialist Enel Green Power claim to have achieved an energy conversion efficiency of 29.8% for a dual-terminal perovskite-silicon solar cell.The cell consists of…

RE+ celebrates its 20th anniversary event, RE+24September 9-12 at the Anaheim Convention Center & Campus. RE+ maintains its reputation as the only clean energy event that unites decision makers and leaders in solar, energy storage, hydrogen, microgrids, EV charging and infrastructure, and wind energy. The event will include 40,000 visitors, 1,300 exhibitors and 370 educational seminars. RE+ 24 exhibitions, educational sessions and more than 500 speakers will cover a wide range of topics and sectors. Examples include artificial intelligence, the rise of microgrids, the legislative outlook, green workers, domestic manufacturing and supply chain, agrivoltaics, underserved clean energy communities, clean technology…

Dutch researchers used dynamic models to reveal the demand for silicon-based PV materials used in a wide range of silicon PV technologies, including perovskite-silicon tandem and back-contact modules. The model included calculating the impact of advances in module efficiency and material intensity, as well as closed-loop circular recycling. September 4, 2024 Valerie ThompsonA research group in the Netherlands used dynamic models to calculate the demand for silicon-based PV materials in future scenarios that include the deployment of perovskite-silicon tandem and back-contact technologies, implying that the goals of a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions are achieved. It included calculations with module efficiency…

Today, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a report with new data on the success of the 2023 program year of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Bonus Credit Program for Low-Income Communities. The report shows how the program reduces energy costs for American households as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s economic agenda. About $3.5 billion in investments in solar installations, made through the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program, is expected to finance the generation of nearly 2 billion kWh of clean electricity each year in underserved places. That’s equivalent to the total annual electricity use of 200,000 average-sized U.S. households, or about…