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SolarDuck’s Tokyo Bay floating solar plant stands strong in the face of severe weather

SolarDuck’s Tokyo Bay floating solar plant stands strong in the face of severe weather

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Home Floating Solar SolarDuck’s Tokyo Bay floating solar plant stands strong in the face of severe weather August 26, 2024, by Zerina Maksumic Duch-Norwegian firm SolarDuck unveiled that the Teal offshore photovoltaic (OFPV) demonstration plant in Tokyo Bay, Japan, endured its first severe weather test. Source: SolarDuck Typhoon Ampil passed near Tokyo on Friday, August […]

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How can we protect humans on Mars from dangerous solar storm radiation?

How can we protect humans on Mars from dangerous solar storm radiation?

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter captured this photo of the sun setting on Mars on Feb. 22, 2023, during its 45th Red Planet flight. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The weather on Mars is not a welcoming factor for future expeditions. Yes, it’s a harsh, chilly, foreboding planet. The place is no paradise. To make matters worse on Mars,

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Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites

Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington has paused permitting activities on the project amid concerns about impacts to Indigenous cultural sites. The decision comes on the heels of an investigation

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Game-Changer: 2-in-1 Floatable Solar Device Cleans Water and Tackles Pollutants

Game-Changer: 2-in-1 Floatable Solar Device Cleans Water and Tackles Pollutants

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In an exciting advancement featured in Materials Horizons, Dr. Edison Ang, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, unveils a groundbreaking solution for both water purification and pollutant degradation. This novel approach is detailed in the study titled “Monolith floatable dual-function solar photothermal evaporator: efficient clean water regeneration synergizing with pollutant

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Minimising financial risk as new PPA buyers and sellers join the solar sector

Minimising financial risk as new PPA buyers and sellers join the solar sector

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“We’re definitely moving from the initial phase of PPAs, which has been going on for five or ten years depending on how you count, where this was a procurement tool that was associated mainly with the 0.1% of global corporates, the biggest companies in the world [including] the very big tech companies and some enormous

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Generate and KeyState close investment fund for 53.5MW of New York community solar

Generate and KeyState close investment fund for 53.5MW of New York community solar

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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads KeyState’s solar tax credit fund platform, dubbed SOLCAP, is now on track to raise over US$450 million in solar tax equity financing across the US. Image: KeyState Renewables. US investors Generate Capital and KeyState Renewables have closed their third joint fund,

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Avantus, Toyota Tsusho start construction on 125MW solar PV plant in Texas

Avantus, Toyota Tsusho start construction on 125MW solar PV plant in Texas

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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads Avantus will oversee the construction of the solar PV project, which is expected to begin operations in late 2025. Image: Avantus. US solar developer Avantus and Japanese conglomerate the Toyota Tsusho Corporation have started construction of their 159MWdc/125MWac Norton Solar project

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Enel North America starts operations at 326MW solar-plus-storage plant in Texas

Enel North America starts operations at 326MW solar-plus-storage plant in Texas

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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads Nestlé is the sole tax equity investor of the Stampede solar-plus-storage project, pictured above. Image: Enel North America. Enel North America, the US subsidiary of Italian utility Enel, has begun operations at the 326MW Stampede solar-plus-storage plant in the US state

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