Austin Energy Goes First Solar With 119 Megawatt Solar Project
Austin Energy is quickly establishing itself as one of Texas' most forward thinking utilities and one of its most price-savvy ones, too. Earlier this month the utility announced that it's requests for proposals for solar power projects came in at record-low costs. Now it's revealing some more information about its new contracts. Today (Oct. 29) First Solar announced that it signed a 15 year power-purchase agreement with the utility for a 119 megawatt East Pecos Solar Project.
Thin film perovskite solar cell passes the efficiency test
Matthew Gunther for Chemistry World: Perovskite solar cells may one day rival silicon-based technologies, but their performance outside the laboratory has been a constant source of contention in the past year. Now, an international team of scientists has manufactured the first thin film perovskite solar cell with a reported efficiency that has beenofficially recognised by an accredited national test laboratory.1
Since their development in 2012, the performance of light-harvesting metal–organo halide structures has seemingly improved at a staggering rate, with their efficiency increasing by six percentage points in just two years – the same increase took multi-crystalline solar cells over two decades.
But their stability has been brought into question, with some international test centres taking issue with perovskite solar cells that are so unstable that they may degrade spontaneously in air, making it hard for them to assess their performance.
It’s a state of affairs that Michael Grätzel from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has had trouble dealing with. ‘Conspicuously, you could see that from the very beginning there was very scarce information on the stability of these devices,’ comments Grätzel. ‘I have raised that issue many times – one would think that now everybody does stability work after this alarm was sounded, but not so.' Cont'd...
Siemens receives first offshore order for 7-MW wind turbines
• 47 wind turbines for UK project of DONG Energy
• Walney Extension East to have a total capacity of 330 megawatts
• Service to be provided by Siemens and DONG Energy over a period of 5 years
Oldbaum and Leosphere announce 1GW of offshore wind data campaigns underway at French sites
"Oldbaum Services is at the forefront of the wind sector in reducing the cost of energy by combining our industry-leading skills and experience in wind resource assessment"
Applied Energy Technologies' (AET) Solar Racking Selected by Pro-Tech Energy Solutions for 3.5 MW Rooftop Installation at AC Moore Distribution Center in NJ
AETs Rayport-B ECO system selected for one of the nations largest rooftop installations
Zettler Group Expands Market Leading Product Program in Solar Relays
Zettler Group publishes an updated on-line PDF for electro-mechanical relays for photo-voltaic inverter applications
8minutenergy Renewables Officially Breaks Ground on 137MW Springbok 1 Solar Farm
Nations Leading Independent Solar PV Developer Hosts Event to Kick Off Construction of Solar Farm That Will Deliver Clean Power to Los Angeles
First Solar, Strata Sign 400MW Deal for 2017-18 Module Deliveries
Strata tops 1GW of business with First Solar
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Projects in development demonstrate confidence in US utility-scale market
Ecoplexus Breaks Ground on 25 MW Solar Project in Nash County, North Carolina
Once fully operational, the system will provide North Carolina with approximately 40 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity annually, enough to power an estimated 3,800 households.
KINGSPAN ENERGY COMPLETES SUNPOWER SOLAR INSTALLATION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADES FOR CARL ZEISS COMPANY
Unique integrated project reduces energy load of the Companys Training
Center by 60 percent
Next Generation Inverters - HD-Wave Technology
With HD-Wave technology, SolarEdge initially creates a much smoother sine wave (a high-definition wave) thus avoiding the heavy and costly magnetic components while gaining efficiency.
Morocco to Build World's Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant
Cole Mellino for EcoWatch: Morocco imports 97 percent of its energy, and yet it has one of the highest rates of solarinsolation of any country—about 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, according to the Solar GCC Alliance. To put that in perspective, the Guinness Book of World Records puts Yuma, Arizona as the sunniest place on Earth with an average of 4,055 hours of sunshine per year (the theoretical maximum is 4,456), whereas the sunniest place in Germany, which still has a robust solar industry, gets a mere 1,800 sunshine hours a year. So it’s no surprise that Morocco is tapping into its abundant sunshine for energy.
Morocco is building “a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that, alongside hydro andwind, will help provide nearly half of Morocco’s electricity from renewables by 2020,” reports The Guardian. When the entire project is finished, it will be the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. The first phase, Noor 1, will go live next month. Cont'd...
SUNRUN CELEBRATES 100,000+ CUSTOMERS
Leading Residential Solar Company Now Provides Affordable Solar to more than 100,000 Homeowners Across 15 States
Poland Can Increase Renewable Energy Nearly Five-Fold by 2030, Finds New IRENA Report
Country can source 38 per cent of its electricity
from renewable energy sources by 2030
Last Call for 2015 - Solar PV Training for #SolarVets
The Veteran Asset and Ambassador Energy have joined forces for a final #SolarVets class in 2015 for transitioning military service members and veterans. The class will be held December 7 through 18 in Murrieta, CA, and TVA will line up job interviews upon graduation.
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