Sun Exchange has closed a $4 million Series-A funding round by obtaining a $3 million investment from ARPF, a Mauritian private equity fund. The peer-to-peer solar leasing platform said it will use the funds to help its members deploy solar solutions across sub-Saharan Africa.The Africa...
Read MoreResidential solar installers are gearing up for a surge of demand for battery storage products as the critical California market swings from a COVID-19 shutdown straight into wildfire season. Storage has become increasingly central to the business models of home solar companies in the U.S. And...
Read MoreOil-heavy Texas could be a model for fully decarbonized energy systems around the world, at least in how it handles grid flexibility. While some other markets are paying for spare capacity to make sure the lights stay on, the Lone Star State’s energy-only market is...
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The pilotless, high-speed solar boat, now under development by Russian scientists, purportedly has unlimited power reserves. It could be used for marine patrols, search and rescue operations, and cargo delivery, they said.Engineers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in Russia are developing...
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Researchers in Malaysia have developed a new, cheaper method to assess PV cooling techniques. Designers and manufacturers of PV cooling systems could follow the parameters of the new approach to evaluate the performance and bankability of their own devices, the scientists claimed.Scientists from Malaysia’s Multimedia...
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The country reached 1.95 GW of installed PV capacity at the end of May, after installing around 653 MW of new projects in the first five months of this year. If the current growth trend continues over the next few months, Poland could become a...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk finds himself in the news quite often, from groundbreaking SpaceX launches to contentious tweets. Yet one story that has flown under the radar by the brash businessman’s standards has been going on for four years now.From pv magazine USA In 2016, Tesla...
Read MoreThe NABCEP 2020 Continuing Education Conference has been moved to a virtual experience and will be hosted within Instructure’s learning management software (LMS) platform this August. The virtual 2020 NABCEP CE Conference will include NABCEP’s regular offerings and opportunities for engagement, including technical training sessions,...
Read MoreEnergy storage software company Stem will operate a 345 megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries—it’s taking over from long-time competitor AMS. The owners of the portfolio, Swiss infrastructure fund manager SUSI Partners and...
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Should California reserve hundreds of millions of dollars in battery incentives for customers at the highest risk of being harmed by wildfire-prevention blackouts? Or should it or share the money with low-income and disadvantaged communities that will otherwise be denied support for projects? That's the question...
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