Wood Mackenzie this week made a slew of predictions for the industry in 2022 and noted the effects the US’ recently announced anti-circumvention investigation is already having on utility scale plans. May 26, 2022 Capital costs for 100 MWdc solar projects are set to rise 6% this year, according to one analyst. US-owned Wood Mackenzie issued a …
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An aerial view of NREL’s South Table Mountain Campus outside Golden, Colorado. Photo by Joshua Bauer, NREL. Emissions from the Flatirons Campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will become an artifact of the past by the close of the next fiscal year. The ambitious plan announced Wednesday by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm served …
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The Texas power grid is notorious for being put to test by extreme heat as well as winter snow and ice storms. While battery owners from utility scale down to homeowners provide needed power to the grid in many places around the world, Texas is not one of them. Tesla hopes to change that, and …
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GCube Insurance Ltd has released its latest market insights report, “Supply Another Day: Gauging the insurance impacts of renewable energy’s supply chain challenge.” Drawing on the expertise of the company’s global underwriting and claims teams, the report articulates the impacts of global supply chain disruption and rising inflation on renewable energy developers, manufacturers and insurers, …
Siemens AG has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Gamesa Electric to use Gamesa Proteus central inverters for PV and energy storage projects. The agreement between the two companies has a global reach, supplying equipment internationally from Gamesa Electric’s factories around the world, and will have an expected volume of GW scale per year. Under …
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Eguana Technologies today announced that full turnkey production and supply chain management is now underway at the Omega EMS facility in San Jose, California. Every stage of energy storage system production is active including circuit board, inverter and system assembly, and final functional testing with multiple Omega personnel trained at each station. The company, along …
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SolarEdge and its subsidiary Kokam Limited Company, a provider of lithium-ion batteries and integrated energy storage solutions, announced the opening of “Sella 2,” a 2-GWh battery cell manufacturing facility. Located in the Eumseong Innovation City of Chungcheongbuk-Do, South Korea, Sella 2 is currently producing test cells for certification, with ramp-up expected during the second half …
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Solar and storage project developer, EPC and O&M provider Borrego announced it will sell its development business (including an 8.4 GW solar/25-GWh storage pipeline) to ECP, an energy transition-focused investor. Upon the completion of the transaction, ECP will operate the development business as an independent company. The business will be headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, and …
Since their introduction into the utility-scale solar market, the name of the game with single-axis trackers has always been about increasing yield and optimizing generation for project owners and PPA off-takers. In the years that have followed, a whole host of solutions have driven up the savings presented by the technology exponentially, with gains up …
Trackers vs. the elements, part one: tackling uneven terrain Read More »
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