solar deployment News
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New Solar Finance options will target 10 GW for African Sahel
The African Developmen: Bank and the International Solar Alliance have agreed to work together on financial mechanisms that will help drive 10 GW of solar deployments in Africa's Sahel, an eco-climatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara and the Sudanian Savanna. "This is an important milestone for the Bank in its efforts to lead the continent's transformation towards ...
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NREL Report Estimates Market Potential of Shared Solar and Discusses Relevant Securities Regulations
Analysis from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that by making shared solar programs available to households and businesses that currently cannot host on-site photovoltaic (PV) systems shared solar could represent 32 to 49 percent of the distributed photovoltaic market in 2020. Shared solar models allocate the electricity of a jointly owned or leased ...
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Preparing for large-scale solar deployment
Original story at MIT News Deploying solar power at the scale needed to alleviate climate change will pose serious challenges for today’s electric power system, finds a study performed by researchers at MIT and the Institute for Research and Technology (ITT) at Comillas University in Spain. For example, local power networks will need to handle both incoming and outgoing flows of ...
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Large Corporations Are Leading America’s Surge in Solar Deployment
America's top companies are investing in solar in record amounts, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association's brand new Solar Means Business 2017 report, which tracks on-site commercial solar installations and ranks top corporate solar users.This year's report contains data from over 4,000 companies, totaling more than 2.5 gigawatts of solar capacity across approximately 7,400 solar ...
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Oman set to kick-start its solar deployment with hybrid PV-Diesel electricity generation
In a recent interview with PV Insider, John Cuneen Executive Director at Oman’s Authority for Electricity Regulation disclosed that the 303kW solar pilot installation is set to pave the way for larger-scale solar projects in the sultanate. The US company Astonfield Renewables, in partnership with the Bahwan Engineering Group will be installing 151.5kW of thin ?lm PV modules and 151.5 kW ...
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NEXTracker and Biosar Enter into Master Services Agreement (MSA) for Solar Projects in Brazil
NEXTracker™, a Flex company, announced today it has signed a master services agreement (MSA) to deliver its award-winning solar tracker technology to Biosar, part of Aktor Construction Group, and one of the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms in the Western Hemisphere. The 191.5 MW solar power plant, Pirapora 1, is being constructed by Biosar for EDF Energies ...
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DOE Announces New Initiatives and Growing Support to Rapidly Increase Community Solar Deployment
At this week's (Jan 25) National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy announced several new initiatives to unlock barriers to the deployment of community solar. Together, these initiatives will help achieve the NCSP's target to enable community solar to power the equivalent of 5 million households and create $1 billion in energy bill savings by 2025. "In ...
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MITEI releases Report on the Future of Solar Energy
Original story at MIT News Solar energy holds the best potential for meeting humanity’s future long-term energy needs while cutting greenhouse gas emissions — but to realize this potential will require increased emphasis on developing lower-cost technologies and more effective deployment policy, says a comprehensive new study, titled “The Future of Solar Energy,” released ...
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NREL Supports China PV Investment and Financing Alliance to Open Capital for Solar Deployment
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the China PV Investment and Finance Alliance (CPVFA) have formed a collaboration with the goal of opening wide-scale and diverse sources of investment for solar photovoltaic (PV) asset development in China. NREL is advising CPVFA based on the work of the NREL-convened Solar Access to Public Capital (SAPC) working group. The ...
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Results from the consultation on transfer rules for rooftop solar announced
Growth in the commercial and industrial scale building-mounted solar market has been below levels of performance in other European countries, and there is potential for significant growth in the UK. In order to stimulate this sector, the Solar PV Strategy, published in April 2014, set out a number of actions that are intended to remove barriers to Solar PV deployment in this scale including ...
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NREL assembles industry working group to advance solar securitization
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently convened the Solar Access to Public Capital (SAPC) working group with a mission to enable securitization of solar PV assets and associated cash flows in the marketplace. SAPC’s primary efforts center on the standardization of power purchase agreements, leases, and other documents relevant to ...
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U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to Visit NREL on Aug. 24
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Wednesday, August 24 at 2:30 p.m. The Secretary General will learn about NREL’s International efforts including meeting key staff and researchers who contributed to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on ...
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Here Comes The Sun: NASA Picks Solar Array System Development Proposals
NASA's Space Technology Program has selected Deployable Space Systems (DSS) of Goleta, Calif. and ATK Space Systems Inc., of Commerce, Calif., for contract negotiation to develop advanced solar array systems. High-power solar electric propulsion, where the power is generated with advanced solar array systems, is a key capability required for extending human presence throughout the solar ...
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Global Annual Solar Installations Expected to Generate More than $259 Billion by 2027
A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for distributed and non-distributed solar photovoltaics (PV), providing forecasts broken out by country, region, and segment, through 2027.According to the report, annual global SPV capacity additions increased from around 74.5 GW in 2016 to 98.4 GW in 2017. The global SPV market in 2017 generated $141.6 billion in 2017, about $59.3 ...
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African Utility Week to gather renewable experts in May to show how wind and solar can solve Africa’s energy demands
Last week’s announcement of the Department of Energy that it has approved 13 new renewable IPP bids “signals the strong commitment of the South African government to continue renewable energy deployment. We encourage the whole sector to anticipate these developments and continue helping South Africa to stabilise its energy sector and solve the load shedding problems”. This is ...
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DOE Challenges Solar Industry to Triple Community Solar by the End of 2025
At the U.S. Department of Energy's National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit this week, Jeff Marootian, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, challenged the community solar industry to commit to meeting the NCSP target of 20 gigawatts of community solar by 2025 up from seven GW today. DOE also launched several new initiatives aimed at ...
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Ascent Solar to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced that Ron Eller, President and CEO, will present to the investment community at the following investor conferences during the month of May and June 2011. May 24, 2011: Stifel Nicolaus Cleantech Conference in New York, NY. June 1, 2011: Cowen & Co. TMT ...
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IBM Rolls Out First Solar Array Designed for High-Voltage Data Centers and Industrial Use
IBM (NYSE: IBM) said today that is rolling out the first solar-power array designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers, integrating AC- and DC-based servers, water-cooled computing systems and related electronics. The new array is spread over more than 6,000 square-feet of rooftop covering IBM's India Software Lab in Bangalore. The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt ...
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Hecate Teams Up with Ideematec for Inaugural L:Tec Project
Ideematec Inc., the leading global supplier of solar tracking systems, today announced that it was selected by world-leading developer Hecate Energy to provide 4 megawatts (MW) of its Horizon L:Tec™ solar trackers for an upcoming installation. The project, located in Newberry, South Carolina, will be installed by construction and project management services company, Reach Construction ...
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Governor Hochul Announces Four Gigawatts of Distributed Solar Installed in New York
New York Governor Kathy Hochul this week announced four gigawatts of distributed solar—community, residential, small commercial and industrial projects—have been installed across the state, enough to power more than 710,000 homes, underscoring New York's leadership in growing one of the strongest solar markets in the nation. Since the launch of the NY-Sun initiative, the cost of solar in New York ...
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