Grenergy secures PPA for 260 MW-1,100 MWh of solar-plus-storage in Chile
Grenergy said its new power purchase agreement (PPA) for 260 MW/1,100 MWh of solar-plus-storage in Chile has a duration of 15 years. The installation is part of the fourth phase of the massive 1 GW/4 GWh Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project.
Germany hits 356,000 heat pump installations in 2023
Heat pump sales in Germany rose by more than 50% for the second year in a row in 2023, according to new figures from Bundesverband Wärmepumpe (BWP).
Navigating Romania’s PV boom
A latecomer to the European PV party, Romania’s embrace of clean energy means it is perfectly placed to ride the wave of urgently ramped grid investment being rolled out by the European Union.
Radiative cooling tech for vertical solar panels
Developed by a US-Saudi research group, the novel technique employs two 45-degree inclined mirrors on the two sides of a PV module. On the back side, a spectral selective reflector enables the thermal radiation to be directed to the sky while preventing the back of a module from heating up by the scattered sunlight.
Sao Paulo inaugurates 7 MW floating solar plant
The government of Sao Paulo, Brazil, says that a new 7 MW floating solar project on a reservoir in the megalopolis is the first phase of a 75 MW facility that will be completed in 2025.
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with sublimed C60 source material achieves 30.9% efficiency
The result was certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab. The cell uses a top inverted PV device using an electron transport layer made of thermally evaporated buckminsterfullerene (C60) with minimized parasitic optical absorption.
Australian consumers say bigger is better for rooftop solar
Solar panel and system prices are on the decline in Australia, but figures from industry analyst SunWiz show that a growing number of Australian households are opting to forgo savings in search of higher generation capacity.
Distributed US solar and storage policy trends
The NC Clean Energy Technology Center covers the latest trends in US solar policy.
India’s GUVNL allocates 200 MW of wind-solar projects at $0.036/kWh
Juniper Green Energy and KPI Green have emerged as winners in Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam’s tender for 500 MW of grid-connected wind-solar hybrid projects in India. They respectively secured 150 MW and 50 MW of capacity.
Chinese researchers develop high power density vanadium flow battery stack
Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) in China have developed a 70 kW-level vanadium flow battery stack. The newly designed stack comes in 40% below current 30 kW-level stacks in terms of costs, due to its volume power density of 130 kW/m3.
