This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a flock of about 2,000 sheep graze between rows of solar panels, grazier Tony Inder wonders what all the fuss is about. “I’m not going to suggest it’s everyone’s cup of tea,” he says. “But as […]
Cliantech Solutions says it will install a 1.2 GW,Cliantech to supply 1.2 GW automated production line for Alpex Solar fully automated solar panel production line for Alpex Solar’s new factory in India. June 14, 2024 Uma Gupta Image: Wikimedia, Yann Forget From pv magazine India Cliantech Solutions will install a 1.2 GW fully automated solar
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Latest Solarpack’s hybrid solar-wind 482MW project will be located in the Indian state of Gujarat. Image: Solarpack. Spanish PV developer Solarpack has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indian state-owned utility SJVN for a 482MW hybrid solar-wind park. Located in the Indian state of Gujarat, the Ganeko project consists of 383MW of solar PV
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Latest The Helena Energy Center is Ørsted’s first co-located project in the US. Image: Ørsted. Danish renewable energy company Ørsted has commissioned its Helena Energy Center in the US state of Texas, a 518MW co-located solar and wind project. The facility is Ørsted’s first co-located project in the US, and consists of two projects, the
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Latest PV Tech’s China team are bringing live coverage of the SNEC 204 event in Shanghai. Image: PV Tech PV Tech’s coverage of the SNEC 2024 trade show continues on day two, with more updates from the leading companies in the solar sector on industry trends and the latest technology. GCL talks traceability On day
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With an estimated distance of 140 parsecs (457 light-years), the L-subdwarf star CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) has a total speed of at least 600 km/s, exceeding the local Galactic escape velocity. Remarkably, this star was likely ejected from a globular cluster located in the outer Galactic plane in the past 10-30 million years. A
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Summer may not be as great for solar panels as you think. Here’s how to keep the energy flowing all summer long. Few of us are probably thrilled by the increasingly hot summers induced by climate change. But all that sunshine is at least good for solar power, right? Well, not necessarily. Solar production does
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews , Long Reads Earlier this month JinkoSolar also reached a 33.24% power conversion efficiency with a TOPCon perovskite tandem solar cell. Image: JinkoSolar Solar PV manufacturer JinkoSolar has achieved a 25.42% conversion efficiency with an 182mm TOPCon module. The module efficiency was tested by German testing company TÜV
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews , Long Reads According to the study, the median customer saw a 1.7 percentage point decline in energy burden, which translates to US$1,987 in annual bill savings. Image: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory New research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has found that the installation of rooftop
For an industry that’s about 20 years old, residential solar is still pretty tumultuous. Some of that can be blamed on shifting regulations, like what happened in California last year where a policy update lengthened the amount of time it took for homeowners to recoup their investments. But other bumps can be attributed to the
