The program supports clean energy innovation and technology development across Massachusetts. Here are some of the recent cash awardees in solar and energy storage. Massachusetts announced a $2.6 million funding program managed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC), MassVentures, and the InnovateMass program, to support clean energy innovation. The programs aim to ensure early-stage ventures have…
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In a series of articles pv magazine identifies the largest solar power stations operating in the world today. Here, we look at the largest stations in 2019. In 2019, the top five solar parks had a combined capacity of 6.6 GWAC. Fast forward to 2021, and today’s top five total over 12.5 GWAC.The intervening Covid-19 pandemic has clearly…
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Dutch start-up SolarDuck has secured approval-in-principle for its floating offshore platforms. Its 64 kW pilot project on the inshore water of the Netherlands’ widest river was validated by Bureau Veritas. Netherlands-based testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) provider Bureau Veritas (BV), has granted approval-in-principle (AIP) to Dutch start-up SolarDuck for its offshore floating solar solution ‘King Eider.’ An AIP is…
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Renewables have now crossed the 25% threshold of total U.S. available installed generating capacity. Renewables comprised nearly all the new electrical generation capacity added in the U.S. in the first half of this year, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and reported by the SUN DAY campaign. About 92% of new power sources…
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The group takes donations of discarded but still useful solar modules and offers solar apprenticeships to provide both training and reduced-cost PV systems to schools. A non-profit group called Brighten Haiti said it plans to begin installing PV systems on 109 schools in rural Haiti starting in 2022. The Oregon-based group said that fewer than 35% of…
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The two companies have signed on to purchase shares of the energy generated by Lightsource bp’s upcoming 345 MW Ventress Solar project. McDonald’s and eBay have both reached agreements with Lightsource bp to purchase power from what is planned to be Louisiana’s largest solar project, located 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge in Pointe Coupee…
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The survey of 1,500 homeowners shed light on the home solar energy experience and motivating factors behind solar purchases. Homeowners are increasingly being driven to buy or lease solar with energy storage by news-making grid failures, power outages, and higher electricity rates, said a survey conducted by SunPower. The 2021 SunPower Energy Sense Index surveyed 1,500 homeowners…
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The furniture giant will sell power from wind and solar facilities to final customers through the Strömma offer. Swedish furniture giant Ikea has announced it will become a renewable electricity provider in its home country. Through its Strömma offer, the company and its Swedish partner, Svea Solar, will soon begin selling electricity produced exclusively by photovoltaics and…
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Soltech Energy has installed a 646 kW solar facade on a parking garage in Sweden that hosts 300 EV-charging posts. Soltech Energy, a Swedish PV system integrator and solar product supplier, is building several PV facades in its home market. It recently installed a 646.6 kW solar facade on a newly built garage with 300 EV–charging posts in Gothenburg,…
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In this case study, LG solar takes a deep dive on the company’s work with Lagunitas Brewery, showing the struggles overcome and the innovation needed to deliver the best beer the sun can brew. After burning the Thanksgiving turkey in an attempt to brew his own beer, Tony Magee was asked to take his new-found…
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