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Category: Solar

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  • Solar

CERAWEEK: Solar expected to see more records in 2021 despite facing challenges

The biggest challenges to the utility-scale solar industry are integration, supply chain constraints and a lack of discipline, power industry experts said March 4 at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Scientists Warn That Filling The Sahara With Solar Panels Is A Bad Idea

Two years ago, a team of Finnish scientists estimated that the world needs to get 69 percent of its primary energy from solar farms in order to achieve its ambitious Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Solar and Wind Are Reaching for the Last 90% of the U.S. Power Market – Bloomberg

Three decades ago, the U.S. passed an infinitesimal milestone: solar and wind power generated one-tenth of one percent of the country’s electricity. It took 18 years, until 2008, for solar Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • United Arab Emirates

UAE Aims To Triple Its Solar Installations By 2025

The installed renewable capacity of the United Arab Emirates, which until recently was nearly non-existent, concluded 2020 at 2.3 gigawatts (GW), around 91% of which comprises of solar PV projects, Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Europe
  • Solar

Northwest European solar joint venture AMPYR aims for 4 GW installed capacity

A joint venture of AGP Group, NaGa Solar and Hartree Partners plans to develop a pipeline of 4 GW of solar projects across Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, the Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Solar
  • Wind

China Exceeds Clean Energy Record With Extra Wind Capacity

China blew past its previous record for renewable energy installations last year with a massive — and surprising — addition of wind power. The National Energy Administration said in a press release on Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Big Oil Is Buying Into The Solar Boom

After a difficult year in the oil world, Total is planning to invest in heavily India’s solar sector going into the next decade. The French company plans to invest $2.5 Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

The Beginning Of A New Megatrend In Solar Energy

The solar sector has enjoyed a jaw-dropping run-up in the current year. The sector’s sole pure-play solar fund, Invesco Solar Portfolio ETF (TAN), is up 234% over the past 52 Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

US solar sales rise 21.6% on year in Q3 on new facilities, more sellers

Megawatt-hours generated from solar facilities in the US rose 21.6% year on year in the third quarter, according to data filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and compiled by Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Scientists Just Set a New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency

Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a huge difference to the amount of energy produced from the same surface area and the same amount of sunshine, and another Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

US solar installations booming, could overtake onshore wind longer term

US solar power capacity additions accounted for 43% of all incremental power generation capacity through Q3 2020 and appear set to record 19 GW of new solar capacity installations in Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Could Solar Power Save The Lone Star State?

Texas, once the undisputed and seemingly infallible powerhouse of the United States’ energy sector and the world’s shale markets, is struggling to stay afloat . While the COVID-19 pandemic was Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Century Old Space Science Revives Solar Power Dream

The economic and industrial turmoil created by the novel coronavirus pandemic will forever be associated with the year 2020, but its impact will be much farther reaching and longer lasting Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Europe’s Biggest Utility Company to Ramp Up Spending on Wind, Solar Power

Enel SpA plans to spend €70 billion, equivalent to $83 billion, expanding its presence in wind and solar power in the coming decade, seeking to cement its position as the Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. That is according to the International Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Glass Shortage Threatens Solar Panels Needed for Climate Fix

The world’s biggest solar power company says a shortage of glass is raising costs and delaying the production of new panels, throwing a wrench into China’s plans to accelerate its Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Wind, Solar News: Repsol Now Spends More on Renewables Than Drilling

Repsol SA has invested more in recent months in developing renewable power projects than searching for oil and gas, offering the latest example of how Europe’s energy giants are accelerating Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Another Major Breakthrough For Solar Energy

During America’s last election cycle, one of President Trump’s key campaign promises was to revive the dying coal sector and bring back coal jobs. But even intense lobbying by the Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Wind, Solar Are Cheapest Power Source In Most Places, BNEF Says

Wind and solar power are the cheapest form of new electricity in most of the world today. That’s the analysis of BloombergNEF, which predicts a tipping point in five years when Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • IEA
  • Solar

Solar Pushes Aside Coal as the Favorite Fuel for Power, IEA Says

Renewables are set to overtake coal this decade as the world’s favorite fuel to generate electricity, the International Energy Agency says. Solar photovoltaics are now cheaper than plants fired by coal Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar Could Be Europe’s Top Power Source In 5 Years

Solar power could be Europe’s biggest energy source in terms of installed capacity by 2025 if the European Union (EU) stays on track for its net-zero targets, the head of Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Solar

The Solar-Powered Future Is Being Assembled in China

On a recent morning in central China, workers in blue jumpsuits and white masks placed clamps around a bar of shiny metal and fed it into a powerful cutting machine. Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar Windows Will Soon Become A Commercial Reality

Last year, the United Nations sent out a grim warning : The world has a very short 10-year window to act to avert catastrophic and irreversible climate change. Not surprisingly, Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

When Smoke Blotted Out the Sun, Rooftop Solar Withered

When deadly wildfires tinted Western skies a Martian hue this week, homeowners with their own rooftop solar systems were able to tell with great precision just how much useful sunlight Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

What Are Anti-Solar Panels?

Solar panels have been hailed as one of the most important energy technologies of our time for their ability to theoretically produce infinite energy. But solar panels only work during Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

World Added More Solar, Wind Than Anything Else Last Year

For the first time ever, solar and wind made up the majority of the world’s new power generation — marking a seismic shift in how nations get their electricity. Solar additions Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

India To Propose World Solar Bank

India will propose a World Solar Bank at the World Solar Technology Summit organized by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in September, the Business Standard reported. Stay up to date Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Wind and Solar Double Global Share of Power in Five Years

Wind and solar energy doubled its share of the global power mix over the last five years, moving the world closer to a path that would limit the worst effects Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Solar

How the Australia-ASEAN Power Link plans to make the island continent a solar superpower

Could Australia, one of the world’s biggest exporters of coal and natural gas, become a solar superpower? The island continent, distant from Asia’s megacities, plans to capture the plentiful Outback sun, Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Solar

Australia aims to become renewable energy export superpower

Australia has shipped vast quantities of coal and gas to fuel Asia’s rapid growth for decades. But amid global concerns over climate change, investors and a previously skeptical conservative government Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

The World Is Facing A Solar Panel Waste Problem

Solar panel installations hit a total 629 GW last year–an increase of 12 percent from 2018. It was also a lot—really a lot—of panels. And in a few years, these Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

In the Future, Solar and Wind Will Be Everywhere You Look

To my four-year-old son, electricity must seem magic—this invisible stuff that comes out of the wall sockets to power the fridge, to light up the TV, or run his favorite Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Chevron Powering Oil Pumps with Solar Panels

In California’s sun-drenched Kern Valley, Chevron Corp. has found a way to use one of the state’s clean-energy programs to cut costs. (Bloomberg) — In California’s sun-drenched Kern Valley, Chevron Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

New California Study Is Good News for Certain Solar Companies

California’s three investor-owned utilities have released the results of a study called for by the California Public Utilities Commission to assess the “effective load carrying capability” of various energy technologies—in other words, how Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • USA

Home-Solar Companies Merge as Coronavirus Dims Growth

The two largest U.S. rooftop solar companies are merging as the coronavirus pandemic casts a cloud over the market to install panels on homes. Sunrun Inc. RUN 22.63% is acquiring Vivint Solar Inc. VSLR 38.19% in an all-stock deal, the companies Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

NREL researchers use adversarial training to super-resolve climate data; up to 50X higher resolution data

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a novel machine learning approach quickly to enhance the resolution of wind velocity data by Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar-Power Costs Falling Even Faster Than Expected Due to Virus

The cost of U.S. solar power is dropping faster than expected as the coronavirus stifles demand, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie. Residential-system prices will fall 17% over the next five Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Solar and Wind Cheapest Sources of Power in Most of the World

Solar and onshore wind power are now the cheapest new sources of electricity in at least two-thirds of the world’s population, further threatening the two fossil-fuel stalwarts — coal and Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar-Power Costs Falling Even Faster Than Expected Due to Virus

The cost of U.S. solar power is dropping faster than expected as the coronavirus stifles demand, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie. Residential-system prices will fall 17% over the next five Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

U.S. Solar Set for Its Third-Best Year Ever Despite Coronavirus

This year was shaping up to be Sunnova Energy International Inc.’s best ever. California—already the biggest U.S. solar market—had started requiring most new homes to be powered by the sun. The rooftop Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Plunging cost of wind and solar marks turning point in energy transition: IRENA

Plunging costs of renewables mark a turning point in a global transition to low-carbon energy, with new solar or wind farms increasingly cheaper to build than running existing coal plants, Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Israel
  • Solar

Israel Is Betting Big On Solar Power

Israel, which hopes to become energy-independent with its huge natural gas fields, is aiming to significantly boost its solar power generation over the next decade under a new US$22.8 billion Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • United Kingdom

Sunniest Spring Helps U.K. Hit a New Solar Record

The U.K.’s sunniest spring on record has boosted solar power’s share of the electricity mix to new heights. Clear skies throughout May, with low power demand during the coronvirus lockdown, helped the Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Europe
  • Solar

Europe Needs a Solar Boom Now or Regret Missing Out in a Decade

Europeans need to urgently increase the solar power that their economies generate or face a reckoning with climate change they could regret.  Those are the stark choices outlined by top European Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Solar panels are more efficient than you’ve heard. This material could make them even better.

Renewable energy has been on the defensive recently. Following the release of Planet of the Humans , the controversial new climate change documentary executive produced by Michael Moore, fossil fuel–backed Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • USA

Trump Administration Approves Largest U.S. Solar Project Ever

The U.S. Department of the Interior approved this week the biggest solar project in the United States ever—an estimated US$1-billion solar plus battery storage project in Nevada. Australia’s Quinbrook Infrastructure Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen
  • Solar

Kobe team develops method for highly efficient hydrogen production using sunlight, water and hematite

A research group led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa of Kobe University’s Molecular Photoscience Research Center has developed a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from sunlight Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • USA
  • Wind

Trump administration signals help coming for solar and wind energy amid pandemic

The Trump administration is signaling it is about to offer a lifeline to solar and wind projects battered by the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter sent to senators Thursday, the Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Australia’s Biggest Solar Farm Gets Green Light After Power Deal

Neoen SA will start construction on Australia’s biggest solar farm after winning a power purchase agreement with Queensland state’s renewables company. The Paris-based company will invest A$570 million ($366 million) in the Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Virginia climate law spurs significant clean energy push at Dominion

Dominion Energy updated investors Tuesday on medium-term clean power generation development plans resulting from recent Virginia legislation that includes spending $3.5 billion on developing 2.6 GW of offshore wind and Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple

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