There is a widely-held perception that data centers — the giant facilities that hold networks of society’s supercomputers — are an out-of-control energy suck. It’s actually not true, says our guest. These myths are rooted in bad projections and false statements from coal advocates, dating all...
Read MoreThe Düsseldorf Regional Court has agreed Chinese rivals of the Korean manufacturer illegally used its patented passivation technology. The judges granted Hanwha Q-Cells an injunction which requires Jinko, REC and Longi to retrieve all modules featuring the patented technology distributed in Germany since late January...
Read MoreThe 15 to 20-year power purchase agreement is expected to provide around 2% of the electricity consumption of all SNCF passenger trains.From pv magazine France. France’s national railway company, SNCF, has renewed its commitment to the energy transition. When the group signed its largest green corporate power...
Read MoreFirst Solar signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with chemical company Dow for its Gulf Coast operations. Dow’s Texas Operations is the largest petrochemical site in the western hemisphere. Under the agreement, First Solar will supply Dow with renewable energy from 75% of its...
Read MoreThe state cabinet has approved a 74:26 joint venture proposal by publicly-owned hydropower company THDC India and the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency for the ambitious project.The state government of Uttar Pradesh has paved the way for a 2 GW ‘ultra-mega’ renewable...
Read MoreAlthough the U.S. courts thought differently, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany has upheld Hanwha Q CELLS’ patent infringement complaint filed on March 4, 2019, finding that JinkoSolar, REC, and LONGi Solar unlawfully incorporated Q CELLS’ patented technology into specific solar products of the...
Read MoreSunPower has quietly released a new roof-integrated solar system, called OneRoof. KB Home is the first homebuilder to offer the product in a new-build home community in the San Francisco Bay Area. KB Home is using the solar product in California to meet the state’s...
Read MoreCumulative distributed energy resource capacity in the United States will reach 397 gigawatts by 2025, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report. The DER resource mix is evolving quickly away from non-residential load management, which made up two-thirds of all U.S. DER capacity in 2015 but will make up less than half by 2025. Solar, electric vehicle infrastructure, and...
Read MoreSiemens Gamesa CEO Markus Tacke's contract was terminated by mutual consent Wednesday night, amid mounting challenges for the company's onshore wind business. Siemens Gamesa — formed several years ago by the merger of rival turbine makers Siemens Wind and Gamesa — was the world's fourth-largest supplier of...
Read MoreA team of researchers led by Nanchang University in China trialed a polymer based hole transport layer to flexible perovskite solar cells, using a glue to attach it to the active perovskite. The team was able to assemble the 19.87%-efficient cells into a small flexible...
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