This week the agency in Puerto Rico that manages public-private partnerships announced that the newly formed Luma Energy will take over management of the island’s grid from its publicly owned utility, after an 18-month selection process. Luma, a joint venture between infrastructure company Quanta Services and Canadian Utilities...
Read MoreThe U.K. government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) annual report (PDF) also covers...
Read MoreThe storage technology promises ten times the energy density offered by lithium-ion batteries but notorious cycling instability remains a concern. Researchers in South Korea may have come a step nearer a solution.Amid intense global competition to identify optimal battery chemistries, lithium-oxygen has stirred interest due...
Read MoreU.S.-based tender platform has invited proposals for projects ranging in scale from 50-500 MW on behalf of an unnamed client which is a member of the RE100 clean energy campaign. European developers have until July 20 to lodge their bids.US renewables marketplace and procurement platform...
Read MoreResearchers in Kenya are seeking to reduce the influence of the Geomagnetic field on PV panel performance by replacing aluminum module frames with a steel cage. They have specified they have been unable to quantify costs related to the solution, and that more research is...
Read MoreJuly 9 is the deadline to bid for supply of five-busbar, multicrystalline ‘PERC’ solar cells with an efficiency of minimum 19.60%.State-owned Central Electronics Limited has invited bids for supply of five-busbar, multicrystalline PERC solar cells with an efficiency of minimum 19.60%. Quantities to be supplied...
Read MoreEnphase Energy and Q CELLS announced a strategic partnership to develop Enphase Energized Q CELLS AC Modules (ACMs) based on seventh-generation Enphase IQ microinverters. The first Enphase and Q CELLS-developed ACMs will be available from major distributors in the U.S. starting July 15. The Q.PEAK...
Read MoreA 103 MW solar park built by Danish developer European Energy has been connected to the grid after a year of construction work. The project had been started in 2011 and at one stage appeared doomed, when a national feed-in tariff program ended.Danish PV project...
Read MoreThe federal network agency allocated 96.3 MW of solar in a procurement round which saw the solar power price nudge up slightly.From pv magazine Germany. German federal network agency the Bundesnetzagentur has announced the results of a tender held on June 1 for photovoltaic projects with...
Read MoreNew Kenya Cooperative Creameries has finalized the preliminary phase of a tender to buy electricity from a solar facility that will be built at its new KCC Sotik Factory. The installation is expected to cover around 40% of the site's power needs.New Kenya Cooperative Creameries...
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