Bifacial Solar News
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New 46-MW Pennsylvania solar array will support utility grants for LMI residents
Four Twelve Renewables is unveiling its inaugural utility-scale solar facility in Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The 46-MWDC facility, known as BE Pine, is made up of approximately 98,000 bifacial solar panels. BE Pine is the first project in Four Twelve Renewables’ portfolio. Four Twelve is an energy developer seeking to use clean, abundant natural resources to generate ...
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Lightsource bp on track to develop 600MW solar hub in NSW, Australia
Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, and 50:50 JV with bp, has secured planning approval for upscaling plans for the Wellington North solar project, which was acquired from AGL last year. The 400MWdc site is adjacent to Lightsource bp’s near-complete 200MWdc Wellington solar farm. Once operational, the 600MWdc hub could become the ...
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Tandem Breakthrough by Solliance Partners
Solliance partners TNO, imec/EnergyVille and the Eindhoven University of Technology, realized a 18.6% efficient highly near infrared transparent perovskite solar cell. The latter, when combined in a four terminal tandem configuration with an efficient Panasonic crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell or with a Miasolé flexible CIGS cell, delivers new record power conversion efficiencies of ...
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Mass Customisation for solar integration in infrastucture
Solar energy everywhere. Producing tailor-made products on a large scale and affordably, this is the future of solar energy. New ways to integrate solar panels so that they are invisible or, on the contrary, become an aesthetic part of a suitable surface. Infrastructural works like noise barriers along motorways offer large areas and plenty opportunities to integrate thin-film solar cells, ...
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Power purchase agreement announced with Ernst & Young for Norfolk solar farm
Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, has been selected to provide Ernst & Young LLP (‘EY’) with its first zero-carbon Power Purchase Agreement. Lightsource bp’s solar plant will generate enough electricity to supply 100% of EY’s electricity needs in the UK. Lightsource bp has financed and developed the solar plant ...
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America`s Clean Energy Leaders Urge President Biden to Repeal Trump Solar Tariff Proclamation
Seventeen leading renewable energy CEOs are calling on President Biden to rescind the Trump Administration's October 2020 solar proclamation, which improperly increased tariffs on solar panels and rescinds the exclusion for bifacial solar panels. Led by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and supported by the American Clean Power Association, the letter calls attention to the ...
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Ideematec Announces World’s Largest Single-Axis Tracker Solar Project
Ideematec, the leading global supplier of solar tracking systems, today announced that it will supply 800 megawatts (MW) of its Bifacial optimized Horizon Plus solar tracker for the world’s biggest power plant using a two-in-portrait (2P) single axis tracker. The project is located in AL-Kharsaah, approximately 80 kilometers west of the capital Doha. The solar facility will generate enough ...
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First Flexible Bifacial Module Tested
In order to increase the energy yield from a noise barrier, we can make use of albedo. A large portion of the sunlight is, depending on their albedo, reflected by buildings, plants, roads and forests. By developing double sided solar cells, we can harvest extra energy from this diffuse light. And last Friday, we tested the first double sided thin-film module that we made in the project ...
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Plans progress for 50MW solar farm in Durham, UK by Lightsource bp
Lightsource bp, a global leader in development and management of solar energy projects, has recently secured planning approval for a new solar farm near Castle Eden in Durham, UK. This site is the latest to join Lightsource bp’s global portfolio of solar projects designed to supply businesses with renewable electricity through corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs). As well as ...
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The SF7 Bifacial tracker produces 2.1% more energy in the second year of study on bifacial technology at BiTEC
The bifacial research center BiTEC, located in Livermore, California (USA) and launched by Soltec in 2018, is celebrating its second anniversary. During its two-year history, this center has confirmed the generation of 2.1% more of bifacial gain with the SF7 Bifacial tracker in a 2-in-portrait configuration compared to the same tracker in 1P. This 2.1% more power translates into about $1.4 ...
By Soltec
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Field Testing Meets Modeling: Validated Data on Bifacial Solar Performance
Though bifacial solar cell technology is not new to PV, recent advances have made the technology more commercially viable than ever before for PV power plants. Along with that viability, however, come questions about the potential energy yield and best practices when choosing bifacial modules over their monofacial counterparts. In particular, university research and other preliminary studies ...
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Solar projects shoot up in US Midwest farm belt
Midwest solar capacity is set to soar as bifacial panels, batteries and economies of scale challenge the dominance of wind projects. Following a surge in wind power installations, the U.S. Midwest is set to be a key growth area for the solar industry in the coming years. Until now, plentiful wind resources and large land areas have favored wind farm development in the Midwest. The 12 states ...
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Array Technologies selected for one of the largest bifacial solar projects in Australia
Array Technologies today announced that DuraTrack HZ v3 single-axis solar trackers were selected for the 200MW Wellington solar farm, which will utilize cutting-edge bifacial modules. This project is a landmark development for Australia, as it will be one of the first local projects to deploy bifacial solar at utility-scale. Once operational, the solar farm will produce 435,000MWh of clean, ...
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NEXTracker Awarded Next Wave of Solar Projects in Australia Due to High Performance Features, Bifacial Optimization, and Proven Execution
NEXTracker™, a Flex company, today announced that 3 gigawatts (GW) of its award-winning smart solar trackers have been delivered or under fulfillment in Australia as the utility, distributed generation (DG) and commercial and industrial (C&I) solar market continues to grow. NEXTracker continues to expand its presence locally and in Asia Pacific out of its location in Manly, also known ...
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NEXTracker Expands Solar Tracker Offering with Launch of NX Gemini
NEXTracker, a Flex company, introduced today a new member of its smart single-axis solar tracker family—NX GeminiTM. The next-generation two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracker is optimized for customer sites with hard soils, challenging terrain, irregular parcel shapes and high-wind requirements. The combination of NEXTracker’s flagship NX HorizonTM and NX Gemini offers customers the ...
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Q CELLS Reveal First Gapless Solar Modules at SPI 2019
Q CELLS, one of the largest solar cell and module manufacturers in the world, will reveal prototypes of its first ever gapless solar modules at the 2019 Solar Power International (SPI) exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah (US). With its high-performance premium solar modules, the Company is aiming to further strengthen its leadership position in the U.S. residential solar market.* Q CELLS to ...
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Qatar expands bifacial PV tests as data shows 10% output gains
The Middle East state is building a commercial-scale bifacial testing facility and advancing soiling studies that will apply to many other desert regions. Interest in bifacial solar plants is soaring and operators are seeking more comprehensive testing of performance drivers to optimize investment decisions. Many U.S. PV operators are turning to bifacial plants to increase power yield amid ...
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Soltec to supply and install 220 MW of SF7 Bifacial trackers in Mexico
Soltec, leading manufacturer and supplier of single-axis solar trackers, is supplying and installing its Soltec SF7 Bifacial trackers at a 220 MW project that the Enel Group’s renewable company Enel Green Power is building in Tlaxcala, Mexico. The power plant occupies 439 hectares. The installation includes 6,533 Soltec SF7 Bifacial solar trackers and 548,772 bifacial modules and ...
By Soltec
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Desert Regions on the Horizon: REC Enters the Middle East
REC, the largest European supplier of solar panels globally, plans to make an impact at this year's Intersolar in Munich in hall A1, booth 380, by displaying for the very first time a bi-facial solar panel concept well suited for desert conditions, and announcing the opening of a new office in Dubai, UAE. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130211/594514 ) "We expect that the ...
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China Sunergy Holds Vienna Event to Showcase Quasar and Bi-Facial Modules with Major European Customers
China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSUN) ("China Sunergy" or the "Company"), a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, held a large customer event in Vienna today to mark the full commercial launch of China Sunergy's high efficiency Quasar modules and to showcase its newly developed and tested bi-facial solar modules, pilot production of which will start in early 2012. Over 50 customers ...
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