Why large-scale wind power is so hard to build
Michael McDonald, Oilprice.com via USA Today : he Bureau of Land Management faces a problem and wants to shake up the rules around wind farm approvals. The problem is straight-forward on its face, but difficult to reconcile logically: Why are so few new large-scale wind projects being built? Despite the fact that nearly everyone – environmentalists, government regulators, and business interests –wants to build more wind farms, precious few are making it over the goal line.
Since 2009, the Obama Administration has approved 46 wind farm projects that would cover a proposed 216,356 acres of public land. Yet only 15 of these 46 projects have made it into operation. The rest are stuck in limbo with years of mandatory environmental analysis ahead or have been cancelled outright. Cont'd...
Vaisala Provides Unprecedented Online Access to Solar Resource Data
New low-cost Solar Time Series Tool cuts model uncertainty and reduces resource risk for solar developers, operators, and engineers
Deutsche Windtechnik launches in France
With the establishment of a new French business unit and the conclusion of several service contracts for French wind farms, Deutsche Windtechnik has implemented its entry into the French wind market and thereby further extended its European range of services. Long-term full maintenance and basic contracts have been concluded with several operators for a total of 35 Nordex (N90), Senvion (NM92) and Fuhrländer (FL 2.500) wind turbines on five wind farms across the whole of France. The company was also able to win a tender for replacing large components.
Sharp Enters New Mexico Energy Storage Market, Teams up with Affordable Solar to Provide SmartStorage® Behind-the-Meter Storage Solution
New Mexicos first commercial solar plus storage project installed at local non-profit Roadrunner® Food Bank
Solar FlexRack TDPTM Turnkey Trackers Solution is Installed in Nebraska's Largest Solar Plant, Owned and Operated by Enerparc Inc.
The milestone 5 MW project, located just outside of Lincoln, NE offsets 5,300 tons of CO2 annually and is generating enough solar electricity to power 900 homes.
Energy Toolbase Releases Major Software Update
New Version Enables Users to Model NEM 2.0 Projects, Create Customized Proposals and Interact Directly with Third Party Service Providers
Solarodo - New and Used Solar Equipment Marketplace
We want to use the experience we gained in Europe and create the platform with the biggest product variety in the US.
Canadian Solar Signs Distribution Agreement with DM Solar in Mexico
Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced the signing of a sales partnership with DM Solar, a wholesale distributor of solar products located in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Market entry Down Under: BayWa Group acquires Australian PV distributor Solarmatrix
BayWa AG, Munich, through its subsidiary BayWa r.e. renewable energy GmbH, acquired the photovoltaic distributor Solarmatrix based in the West Australian city of Perth and thus enters the solar module and components business in Australia. The activities of Solarmatrix will be continued with the company BayWa r.e. Solar Systems Pty Ltd. formed specifically for this purpose.
Transparent solar panels are 50 times more productive than regular photovoltaics
Luke Dormehl for DigitalTrends: As the term “regular windows” suggests, users don’t have to replace the existing windows in their home, but need only treat them with a special process developed by the company.
“We apply liquid coatings to glass and plastic surfaces at ambient pressure, and dry these coatings at low temperature to produce transparent films,” Conklin continued. “We repeat these processes, and then collectively these coatings — and thus the glass and plastic surfaces — generate electricity.”
Of these coatings, the most important is the so-called “Active Layer,” through which electricity is generated by the absorption of light, and the transparent conductors, which allow the electricity to be extracted. “[The] coatings are primarily organic, primarily from carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen,” Conklin said. “We are constantly refining each of the layers to improve on the power we’re able to extract from these coatings and enhance their manufacturability.” Cont'd...
Natural Power France is set to attend Colloque National Eolien
Natural Power France is set to attend Colloque National Eolien 2016, the key wind power conference in France, which takes place on Wednesday 14th September at Parc Floral in Paris.
Solar cell is more efficient, costs less than its counterparts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via Science Daily: A team of researchers from MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology may have found a way around this seemingly intractable tradeoff between efficiency and cost. The team has developed a new solar cell that combines two different layers of sunlight-absorbing material to harvest a broader range of the sun's energy. The researchers call the device a "step cell," because the two layers are arranged in a stepwise fashion, with the lower layer jutting out beneath the upper layer, in order to expose both layers to incoming sunlight. Such layered, or "multijunction," solar cells are typically expensive to manufacture, but the researchers also used a novel, low-cost manufacturing process for their step cell.
The team's step-cell concept can reach theoretical efficiencies above 40 percent and estimated practical efficiencies of 35 percent, prompting the team's principal investigators -- Masdar Institute's Ammar Nayfeh, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and MIT's Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering -- to plan a startup company to commercialize the promising solar cell. Cont'd...
SPI 2016 - SMA to Unveil Never-Before-Seen Residential and Commercial PV Solutions at Solar Power International
Exhibition to Include Inverter Solutions and O&M Offerings on Display for the First Time in the U.S.
4 WEEKS AWAY- SOLAR MEXICO 2016, GET THE LATEST ON SOLAR PROJECTS & ENERGY AUCTIONS
Only 4 weeks left until Solar Mexico 2016, the "Go-To" event for Mexico's Solar Industry. Register today!
Gaining momentum: 3megawatt adds John Espino as VP of Sales
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 24, 2016, -- 3megawatt, a software solution provider offering a cutting-edge asset management platform for the renewable energy industry announced the addition of John Espino as a Vice President of Sales, further filling out its management team.
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