Saipem unveils offshore floating PV platform
Saipem, an Italian oilfield services provider, has developed an offshore floating PV platform in collaboration with its Norwegian unit, Moss Maritime.
Italy deploys 4.2 GW of solar in January-August period
Italy deployed 4.2 GW of solar capacity and 260,000 new PV systems from January to August.
Spain sets new 2030 solar target of 76 GW
The Spanish government has set a new 2030 solar target of 76 GW in an energy strategy submitted to the European Commission. It aims to cover over 80% of national electricity demand with renewable energy.
Brazil to require solar inverters with arc fault circuit interrupters from December
Brazil’s National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) says it has introduced a requirement for inverters to have arc fault circuit interrupters, effective December 2024, to prevent fires and enhance PV system safety.
Serbia announces 1 GW solar, 400 MWh battery storage sites
Six large-scale solar plants colocated with battery energy storage systems should be delivered by mid 2028.
Fraunhofer ISE claims 31.6% efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell
The German research institute said it utilized a hybrid manufacturing route to deposit the perovskite solar on the cell’s top PV device based on an industrially textured silicon heterojunction technology. For the bottom subcell, a standard silicon solar cell was used.
US government nuclear sites going solar
Hecate Energy is working on a 1 GW solar facility at Hanford, a former US nuclear weapons manufacturing site, while NextEra is negotiating to build solar at a nuclear storage facility in New Mexico.
Semi-online tech for short-term solar irradiance forecast in PV plants
Scientists in Spain have created a semi-online technique to predict solar irradiance at different locations inside a photovoltaic plant. The proposed training approach is described as suitable for highly variable time series forecasting.
EKO unveils new solar monitoring solution
The latest irradiance sensor solution from Japan-based EKO Instruments provides continuous measurements in the field. Well-suited for bifacial PV systems, it supports the measurement of global horizontal irradiance, diffuse horizontal irradiance and direct normal irradiance, even in reflective and cloudy conditions.
U.S. solar industry on track to install 250 GW in five years
According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q3 2024 report, in the two years since passage of the IRA the solar industry has added 75 GW of new capacity to the grid, representing over 36% of all solar capacity built in U.S. history.
