Researchers from Deakin University in Australia claim their battery chemistry is based on a new class of electrolyte material which carries no risk of uncontrolled thermal events and represents a viable alternative to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Researchers from Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, have developed a lithium metal battery prototype which features electrolytes designed to…
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Gov. Ralph Northam has signed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which requires the state’s utilities to switch to 100% clean energy by 2050, while also adding 16 GW of solar and onshore wind, 3 GW of energy storage and the closing of all the state’s coal power plants by 2024. Virginia is the newest state…
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German manufacturer a2-solar has supplied 240 solar panels for the renovation of an old building in Bern, Switzerland. The modules, which are being integrated into 96 balconies, feature different transparency options and color variations. Over the past few months, Swiss Renova has been renovating a multifamily structure dating back to 1963, in line with the…
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With its sonnenVPP, German battery company Sonnen wants to improve the efficiency of virtual power plants which it says can offer primary balancing energy from houses with solar and storage and can operate up to 90% more cost-effectively. With a virtual power plant (VPP) aggregated from household solar-plus-storage installations operating in Germany’s primary balancing energy market since November 2018,…
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Also in the brief: High albedo ground cover for bifacial installations, Peak Clean Energy sells its solar development pipeline to hep global. Construction on the 215 MW Fresno County Little Bear Solar Project is now underway. Little Bear will sell energy and RECs to Marin Clean Energy under 20-year busbar power purchase agreements. In addition…
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Northern Indiana Public Service Company, in collaboration with Inovateus Solar has installed 420 kilowatts across three “zero-waste” projects at NIPSCO office locations — the first step towards the 2.3 gigawatts the utility has planned by 2023. Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), the second-largest electrical utility in Indiana, serving roughly 400,000 people, now has its…
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New legislation also creates the U.S.’s first Office of Renewable Energy Siting — charged with consolidating the environmental review of major renewable energy facilities and providing a single forum for ensuring that siting decisions are predictable, responsible and delivered in a timely manner with opportunities for input from local communities. Legislation that makes renewable energy…
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French solar thin-film specialist Armor has designed a retractable automotive solar cover. It has deployed an initial prototype on a Gazelle electric car, but it said that the cover can be used on any kind of electric vehicle. French thin-film PV manufacturer Armor has deployed a thin-film solar car cover on a Gazelle Techelectric vehicle…
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The electronics brand said the project will be its largest engineering, procurement and construction order for a solar plant. Facilities on such a scale are rare in Japan because of land constraints. Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has bagged its largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) service order to date. The global brand has won the contract for…
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The country added around 700 MW of new solar in the January-February period. Cumulative capacity hit 49.75 GW, which means that about 2.25 GW remains before the feed-in tariff cap is reached. According to Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), the country installed 356.7 MW of PV capacity in February, from 375 MW in the preceding…
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