Dutch startup Solar Visuals and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have developed new "mimic design" facade modules that reproduce the features of building surfaces. Lenneke Slooff-Hoek, a senior scientist for TNO, told pv magazine that the panels can be made in any...
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Ikea has launched its turnkey home solar offer in Australia, making it the first market outside of Europe in which consumers can purchase home solar kits from its website. The company has partnered with Solargain to bring solar to as many Aussie rooftops as possible.From...
Read MoreThe solar industry logged its largest first quarter of installations on record by a significant margin in 2020, but overall dire projections on the coronavirus impact dampened any positive news for the industry. With new data released Thursday, analysts at Wood Mackenzie confirmed what the solar...
Read MoreA boisterous CEO who brags of “out-Eloning” Elon Musk; a reverse merger that makes a little-known fuel-cell trucking company as valuable as Ford; and no actual cars or trucks in production. On this week's edition of The Interchange, we try to make sense of Nikola Motor. Nikola Motor went...
Read MoreA new Duke Energy solar power plant in West Lafayette, Indiana also now helps renew and increase populations of pollinator species important to the growth and reproduction of flowers and food plants. Approximately 1.5 acres of the plant site at the Discovery Park District have...
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An Ieefa report has suggested the cost of generating electricity from solar will be near zero in the world’s sunniest regions by 2030-40 – despite what the naysayers at the International Energy Agency might think.From pv magazine International U.S.-based energy transition thinktank the Institute for Energy Economics...
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Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. New York state’s zero-carbon energy goals will require new...
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic forced layoffs and spending cuts across the solar industry and hammered global electric vehicle sales. But startups serving the EV charging market have continued pulling in new investments in spite of the uncertainty. In recent weeks, managed fleet charging specialist Amply executed a $13.2 million...
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Foreign direct investment into Indian solar concerns from China and other neighboring countries will now have to secure the approval of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.With Indian solar companies weakened by the Covid-19 crisis, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has...
Read MoreThe Solarize NOVA solar energy/energy efficiency program returns June 15 through August 31 to Northern Virginia. Since 2014, 372 contracts have been signed through the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP)’s Solarize program, totaling more than 3 MW of solar capacity and nearly $9 million in...
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