Photovoltaic Power Plants News
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Major Growth of Clean Energy Limited the Rise in Global Emissions in 2023
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before even as total energy demand growth accelerated, new IEA analysis shows, with continued expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars helping the world avoid greater use of fossil fuels. Without clean energy technologies, the global increase in CO2 emissions in the last five years ...
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Soltec supplies 164 MW of its SF7 solar tracker to Blue Ridge Power in the United States
Soltec, a company dedicated to the manufacturing and supply of solar trackers for large-scale plants, will supply 164 MW of its SF7 solar tracker for a project by Blue Ridge Power. The photovoltaic plant will be located in the state of Virginia, United States. The project will be equipped with Soltec’s flagship tracker, the SF7. This tracker has a 2-in-portrait configuration. Its design, ...
By Soltec
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TotalEnergies Starts Up in Texas a 380 MW Utility-Scale Solar Power Plant with Battery Storage
TotalEnergies has started commercial operations of Myrtle Solar, its utility-scale operated solar farm in the United States. Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries. With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels installed over an area equivalent to 1,800 American football fields, Myrtle produces ...
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Millionth Renewable Energy Plant Connected to E.ON Grid
E.ON, Germany's largest distribution system operator, recently connected the millionth renewable energy plant to its distribution system and celebrated an energy transition anniversary. The commissioned wind turbine is located in the municipality of Biesenthal in Brandenburg and will in future feed 6.8 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity into the grid of E.ON subsidiary E.DIS. E.ON's Chief ...
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Terabase Raises $25M to Accelerate its Digital and Automation Solutions
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, July 19, 2023 - Terabase Energy, the leader in digital and automation solutions for solar power plants, today announced $25 Million in new financing, led by Fifth Wall, the largest asset manager focused on improving, future-proofing, and decarbonizing the built world, with participation from EDP Ventures and existing investors. This financing round will be used to support ...
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Ampt Receives Follow-on Order for String Optimizers Totaling 390 MW of Solar+Storage in Chile
Ampt, a DC optimizer company for large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, this week announced that it has received an order for Ampt String Optimizers for 210 MW as a follow-on to the company’s successful delivery of 180 MW earlier this year. The combined 390 MW of Ampt optimizers will power Chile’s largest solar plus energy storage power plant initiative. Ampt’s patented optimizer technology plays ...
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Array Technologies Announces SmarTrack Production Boost of up to 5%
Array Technologies, a market leader in single-axis solar tracking, have made its performance enhancing software SmarTrack even smarter – adding functionality to increase utility-scale energy harvest. Detailed research and projections from independent engineers at DNV GL spotlight the real-world and accurate energy gains now available to Array customers with SmarTrack. During extensive beta ...
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WHO Report: COVID-19 Will Compromise the Transition to Clean Energy Without Urgent Stakeholder Action
The coronavirus pandemic risks cancelling out recent progress in transitioning to clean energy, with unprecedented falls in demand, price volatility and pressure to quickly mitigate socioeconomic costs placing the near-term trajectory of the transition in doubt. Policies, roadmaps and governance frameworks for energy transition at national, regional, and global levels need to be more robust and ...
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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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Huawei Predicts 10 Trends in Smart PV for 2025
Over the next 5 to 10 years, renewable energy will assume a more prominent role as a main power source for power grids. Solar power, in particular, as the most noteworthy form of renewable energy, has a particularly bright future. However, as renewable represents a greater proportion of total energy production, ensuring safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness across power generation assets ...
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Oil group Galp becomes Spanish solar giant; Qatar signs PV contract below $16/MWh
Oil group Galp to buy 2.9 GW of Spanish PV projects Portuguese oil and gas group Galp Energia has agreed to buy stakes in 2.9 GW of Spanish PV capacity, in operation or under development, from ACS Group, Galp announced January 22. Valued at 2.2 billion-euro ($2.4 billion), the portfolio includes 900 MW of operational capacity and 2 GW of projects scheduled to be built by 2023, and will make ...
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New PV power plant – 700kWp near Strumica, Macedonia
Solarpro Holding AD completes the construction of PV power plant near Strumica, Republic of Macedonia with total installed capacity of 700kWp. It will be the first one to sell the produced energy on the free market without benefiting from the preferences (feed in tariffs) of the Macedonian state. ...
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247Solar to use Capstone micro-turbines; Azelio to build Stirling CSP-storage pilot in UAE
Our pick of the latest solar thermal news you need to know. 247Solar to use Capstone turbines for first Brayton CSP module Capstone Turbine Corporation is to supply two micro-turbines to 247Solar's first full-scale CSP plant module scheduled to be built in Morocco this year, the U.S. turbine group said in a statement September 16. 247Solar will build its first fully-operational demonstration ...
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University of Waterloo Researchers Develop a Better Way to Harness the Power of Solar Panels
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to better harness the volume of energy collected by solar panels. In a new study, the researchers developed an algorithm that increases the efficiency of the solar photovoltaic (PV) system and reduces the volume of power currently being wasted due to a lack of effective controls.“We’ve developed an algorithm to further boost the power ...
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Overseas project of Namkoo--100KW off-grid photovoltaic system project is put into operation in Solomon Islands
First impression of Solomon Islands Where is Solomon Islands? It is located in the east of Papua New Guinea, about 2,000 kilometers from the northeast of Australia. There are 990 islands of all sizes. Besides, it is located near the equator, with a typical tropical rain forest climate. The population of the country is about 600,000. The local economy is mainly based on agriculture, forestry ...
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GCL-SI and Solarpro Join Forces to Build One Of the Largest Solar Projects In Hungary
GCL System Integration Technology Co., Ltd. (GCL-SI), the world’s leading one-stop solutions provider for solar project has successfully delivered 21 MW Poly Perc modules for the construction of MET Dunai Solar Park (“the Park”) one of the largest photovoltaic power plants in Hungary, re-designed and built by Solarpro Holding AD (Solarpro), one of the leading turn-key EPC ...
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Co-organized by GS-Solar, the “Conference of Water Surface Photovoltaic Power Plant of the Second Leadership Plan” Successfully Ended
On July 13th, Hosted by China Photovoltaic Industry Association and China Investment Association and co-organized by GS-Solar, the “Conference of Water Surface Photovoltaic Power Plant and Seminar for Water Surface Photovoltaic Power Plant Design and Equipment Selection of the Second Leadership Plan” was successfully completed in Nanjing. The conference has a scale of more than 500 ...
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The Largest Solar Power Plant 57Mw In Korea
In the November issue of "Solar Today", the best monthly magazine in domestic solar power field, the 57MW power plant of Haenam, the largest solar power plant in Korea, was introduced. The 57MW photovoltaic power plant in Haenam, which was built on Hwangsan-myeon in Haenam-gun, has invested more than 100 billion won and is the largest solar power plant installed on a single site in Korea. ...
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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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Soltec Supplying its First PV Power Plant in Australia
Soltec will supply its tracker equipment to a 70 MW solar PV power plant in Australia. Soltec is executing its plan to invest in growing markets and expand supply capacity globally, including this strategic move into Australia. With the establishment of this office in Sydney’s Barangaroo business district last November, Soltec Australia Pty Ltd rejoins APAC regional activity with the ...
By Soltec
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