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A Recap of Cohort #2: Advanced Insights on Technological Trends in PV
The solar energy achievers are constantly looking for professional growth opportunities. Recognizing the importance of staying updated with important PV market trends, we recently concluded the 2nd cohort of the much-anticipated online course titled “Advanced Insights on Technological Trends in PV.” Held on February 22-23, this event brought together solar energy professionals and ...
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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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More Than Two Gigawatts of Community Solar Has Been Installed in New York
Governor Kathy Hochul this week (Nov 28) announced more than two gigawatts of community solar has been installed in New York - enough to serve 393,000 homes, reaffirming the state's position as the top community solar market in the United States. This community solar milestone contributes to five gigawatts of distributed solar operating across the state, with 3.3 gigawatts in development. The ...
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U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Geological Survey Release Online Database of Large-Scale Solar
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) released the largest and most comprehensive database to date on large-scale solar energy projects in the United States. The U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) includes the location, size, and other characteristics of large-scale solar projects. This new public ...
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DOE Releases Draft Roadmap to Improve Interconnection of Clean Energy Resources on the Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy released a draft roadmap to address interconnection challenges on the transmission grid and seeks feedback from the public before releasing a final version. DOE convened a broad group of clean energy stakeholders through its Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) to develop the roadmap, which is intended to serve as a practical guide for implementing near-and ...
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A+ Sun Systems Solar Tensile Structures Among The 20 Most Promising Technologies In Pv Market
Array Changing Technologies: As another year of solar innovations marches on, with exciting new products and models being introduced up and down the supply chain, pv magazine has brought together a jury of industry experts to honor those technologies whose potential is truly Array Changing. Here, we’ve added another 10 innovations to those featured back in June, and tasked our expert jury ...
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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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Commercial Operation Commences at National Grid Renewables’ Noble Solar & Storage Project
National Grid Renewables announced this week the start of commercial operation at its Noble Solar and Storage Project (Noble) in Denton County, Texas. Noble is a 275 megawatt (MW) solar and 125 megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage project located in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market that began construction last year. “With the start of operation at our Noble project, National ...
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Virto.CAD Service Release 1.9.2
Our team has once again made some important changes in our Virto.CAD PV software. Read more below about the improvements, bug fixes and new features in our latest Virto.CAD service release : Virto.CAD 1.9.2. New features & improvements Mounting system Sunbeam: Integrated the new options to select which parts are black, standard, or not needed. Combined error messages ...
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IEA Publishes World Energy Outlook 2022
The global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system, according to the latest edition of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook. Today’s energy crisis is delivering a shock of unprecedented breadth and complexity. The biggest tremors have been felt in ...
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Ember Analysis: Europe Can Achieve Clean Power by 2035 at No Extra Cost
Modelling by energy think tank Ember reveals that Europe can achieve a clean, reliable and expanded power system by 2035, with a comparable overall cost to Europe’s current plans for a smaller and more polluting electricity supply. Upgrading the system and quadrupling growth in wind and solar capacity requires an additional upfront investment of €300-750 billion. However, ditching expensive ...
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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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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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DOE Seeks Input on Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and Building Technologies Office (BTO) have jointly issued a request for information to gather input on technical and commercial challenges and opportunities for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems. While roof-mounted solar systems on buildings are more common, BIPV systems offer other ways to site solar ...
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Enphase Energy and Swell Energy to Partner on Solar, Battery, and Virtual Power Plant Offerings
Enphase Energy, Inc., a global energy technology company and a leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, announced this week that it is launching a partnership with renewable energy and grid solutions provider Swell Energy Inc. The partnership enables Enphase® Energy Systems, powered by IQ™ Microinverters and IQ™ Batteries, to participate in Swell’s distributed, virtual ...
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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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AES Launches First-of-its-Kind Robot to Accelerate Solar Construction
The AES Corporation this week ?announced the launch of Atlas, a new first-of-its-kind solar installation robot. Atlas represents a major advance in solar energy technology, making it faster, more efficient and safer to construct new solar facilities. Atlas was designed by AES through a multi-year innovation process and built in cooperation with Calvary Robotics and other third parties. Video: ...
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GARBE Renewable Energy – GREEN GmbH launches pilot project for innovative PV solutions from Heliatek GmbH in Berlin
Berlin Hohenschönhausen, 14 October 2021. The project, funded by the EU under the ‘LIFE’ programme, was officially commissioned on 13 October 2021 by representatives of the European Commission's funding commission, the project partner COMSA and representatives of the companies involved. Avoiding CO2 emissions wherever possible – GREEN also pursues this goal for managed ...
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Solar Prices Increase Across Every Market Segment for the First Time in Seven Years
Supply chain constraints are leading to price increases across every solar market segment, despite the addition of 5.7 gigawatts (GWdc) of solar capacity in Q2 2021, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business. This is the first time that solar prices have increased quarter-over-quarter ...
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DOE Releases Solar Futures Study Providing the Blueprint for a Zero-Carbon Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Sept 8) released the Solar Futures Study detailing the significant role solar will play in decarbonizing the nation's power grid. The study shows that by 2035, solar energy has the potential to power 40% of the nation's electricity, drive deep decarbonization of the grid, and employ as much as 1.5 million people without raising electricity prices. The ...
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