Domestic Photovoltaic (PV) News
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2023 Year in Review: Advancing Puerto Rico's Grid Recovery and Modernization
Natural disasters in recent memory have posed significant challenges to Puerto Rico's electrical grid and the more than three million residents it serves. In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused most of the transmission and distribution system in Puerto Rico to collapse, leading to one of the longest blackouts in U.S. history and leaving residents in some parts of the territory ...
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2023 Year in Review: Advancing Puerto Rico's Grid Recovery and Modernization
Natural disasters in recent memory have posed significant challenges to Puerto Rico's electrical grid and the more than three million residents it serves. In September 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused most of the transmission and distribution system in Puerto Rico to collapse, leading to one of the longest blackouts in U.S. history and leaving residents in some parts of the territory ...
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IEA Report: The World Needs More Diverse Solar Panel Supply Chains
Ensuring a secure transition to net zero emissions will require increased efforts to expand and diversify global production of solar panels whose global supply chains are currently heavily concentrated in China, the IEA said in a new special report released this week. Chinese industrial and innovation policies focused on expanding solar panel production and markets have helped solar PV become the ...
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Mass Production Solar Cell will Reach a Conversion Efficiency of 25%! The 5GW Production Base of HDT High-efficiency Heterojunction Solar Cell Invested by Jinrui Energy Started Construction
On February 19th, invested by Fujian Jinrui Energy Co., Ltd., the 5GW Production Base of HDT High-efficiency Solar Cells in Jinjiang City held a groundbreaking ceremony in Jinjiang City, which was one of main activities of Jinjiang City’s 2019 Centralized Contract Signing and Opening Activities. Liu Wenru, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Quanzhou Municipal Committee and ...
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California Energy Commission Adopts Standards Requiring Solar Systems for New Homes, First in Nation
Moving to cut energy use in new homes by more than 50 percent, the California Energy Commission today adopted building standards that require solar photovoltaic systems starting in 2020. The building energy efficiency standards, which are the first in the nation to require solar, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking 115,000 fossil fuel cars off the road. The ...
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ESS 36.6MWh Construction
Our company built an energy storage system ESS (about 36.6 MWh) in connection with solar power plant of JW Company in Haenam County, and this ESS started commercial operation from last month. This is the largest capacity among domestic PV ESS currently. The ESS system in conjunction with photovoltaic power generation stores electricity from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the battery and sends it back ...
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Cost-Reduction Roadmap Outlines Two Pathways to Meet DOE Residential Solar Cost Target for 2030
Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations could help the United States meet the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The NREL analysis ...
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Distributed Generation an Ongoing Threat to Utility Revenues and Hosting Capacity, Accenture Research Shows
Utilities face the greatest risk of lost revenues from distributed generation (DG), including residential solar photovoltaics and fuel cells, according to Accenture's Digitally Enabled Grid research, now in its fourth year. The survey of more than 100 utilities executives across more than 20 countries revealed that 58 percent of distribution utility executives believe DG will cause revenue ...
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New NREL Report Shines Light on Installed Costs and Deployment Barriers for Residential Solar PV with Energy Storage
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are making available the most detailed component and system-level cost breakdowns to date for residential photovoltaic (PV) solar systems equipped with energy storage-and quantifying previously unknown soft costs for the first time. The report, titled "Installed Cost Benchmarks and Deployment ...
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Efficient solar cell project landing Jinjiang
On January 17th, Jun Shi Electric (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., Jin Bao Li (Quanzhou) Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. and Jinjiang Municipal People's Government signed an investment agreement, "HDT (high efficiency single crystal heterojunction) efficient solar cell project" Jinjiang Economic Development Zone Wuli Park, the project is also the first domestic independent intellectual property rights with ...
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Energy Department Announces More than 90% Achievement of 2020 SunShot Goal, Sets Sights on 2030 Affordability Targets
November 15, 2016 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy yesterday announced a commitment for its SunShot Initiative to cut the cost of solar-generated electricity by 50% between 2020 and 2030. This new target is a reflection of the SunShot Initiative's leadership in helping the industry reach more than 90% of its established 2020 goal in five years. ...
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UK Domestic Solar Achieves Growing Rates of Return Despite Reductions in Subsidy
Since the introduction of the UK's Feed in Tariff scheme in 2010, the market has seen a series of reductions in tariff rates from 41.3p/kWh to 14.38p/kWh. Over the same period, the cost of installing solar panels has dropped significantly and electricity prices have risen. The net effect is that the rate of return available from domestic solar panels in the UK is at a near record high and ...
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EasySolar to reduce soft costs of solar through its new designing tool
New and innovative tools are being developed to stimulate significant improvements in photovoltaic residential sector. Usually small-scale plants are the most difficult ones to sell due to “soft” costs. Hardware prices are fairly similar across countries, however non-hardware costs of solar like marketing, customer acquisition or installation labour are the main barrier of wide ...
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SMA Introduces webconnect monitoring for residential and small commercial PV systems
SMA has unveiled a new solution that simplifies online monitoring of residential and small commercial photovoltaic systems. Webconnect enables direct data transmission from the inverter to SMA’s Sunny Portal, the world’s largest Web-based PV monitoring platform, through the system owner’s existing Internet connection, without the need for additional communications or ...
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Linzer Products Corporation Reduces Energy Costs with Mitsubishi Electric Photovoltaic System
Linzer Products Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturers, importers, and exporters of paint tools and accessories, is replacing all the company’s electricity needs with clean, solar power at its paint brush factory in San Fernando, California. The recent installation of a 614kW DC photovoltaic (PV) system includes 2,730 Mitsubishi Electric solar modules, installed by Sun ...
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Solar Source Installs 19 Solar Energy Systems for St. Petersburg’s Sunlit City Parks Initiative
Solar Source installed 19 solar systems for the city of St Petersburg’s Sunlit City Parks Project. Almost 950 solar panels were mounted on park facilities, including the Science + Technology Education Innovation Center (EIC) and other park recreational centers. The U.S. Department of Energy funded the projects to encourage learning and spark student’s imagination. Solar Source acted ...
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National Strategic Emerging Industries Forum was Held at Yingli Green Energy`s Baoding Headquarters
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar", today announced that the National Strategic Emerging Industries Forum (the "Forum") was successfully held at Yingli's ...
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JinkoSolar Modules Power 600 North Carolina Homes
SHANGHAI, Oct. 10, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global solar power product manufacturer, today announced that a 6.4-megawatt solar farm utilizing JinkoSolar photovoltaic (PV) modules, was completed in Robeson County, North Carolina. Built by North Carolina-based Strata Solar, the Watts solar farm is the most recent ...
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Itron Enters into Solar Market with Extended Product Portfolio
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today it has expanded its capabilities with a dedicated meter for the solar market. The revenue-grade solar meter, which utilizes an Itron cellular communication module, is ideal for monitoring the energy production of residential and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The availability of third-party-owned residential solar ...
By Itron Inc
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SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program
Solar Energy International is celebrating 21 years of renewable energy training by launching a new, comprehensive Solar Professionals Certificate Program. This program is an expansion of a previously successful Colorado-based program to fully serve a national and international audience of solar professionals. The intent of the SEI Solar Professionals Certificate Program is to go beyond a ...
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