Net billing for rooftop solar, which incentivizes the use of battery storage to maximize solar self-consumption, is inefficient, researchers found, whereas incentivizing battery owners to discharge power during peak hours would provide greater value. | Continue reading
The Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium will work toward making continued cost and efficiency improvements that will make CdTe more competitive on the global market. | Continue reading
As energy storage is used for a wider set of services and renewable energy is rapidly deployed, battery use ramps up across the US. | Continue reading
According to a third-party study, the projected output over the 40-year warranty period of Maxeon solar panels exceeds the energy demand of manufacturing them by over 100-fold. Plus, more details from the Maxeon-SunPower 2021 sustainability report. | Continue reading
Enovix also demonstrated its US-made silicon anode lithium-ion batteries can charge 0% to 80% in five minutes. | Continue reading
Converting the nation’s 40 million acres of ethanol corn farms into solar-plus-food facilities would generate 1.5 times our nation’s electricity needs, while also powering a 100% electrified passenger vehicle fleet. | Continue reading
Led by German research institute Fraunhofer ISE, the consortium has built the solar cells with 100% crystalline silicon recycled from end-of-life photovoltaic panels. The silicon is recycled through a technique conceived by German specialist Reiling GmbH & Co. KG and the Fraunhof … | Continue reading
The company announced 5.6 GW of solar globally. The first U.S. projects are planned for Arizona and Georgia. | Continue reading
The technique is reported to be able to deliver recycled silicon with a purity of up to 99.9984%. | Continue reading
Researchers concluded that wind and solar generation resources that were sized at 1.5x along with three hours of energy storage would meet all but 200 hours of demand scattered throughout any given year. | Continue reading
The company plans to commercialize its calcium-antimony liquid metal battery chemistry and open manufacturing facilities to deliver projects in 2023 and beyond. | Continue reading
Boston startup Form Energy has secured $200 million Series D funding for the development of what is being called a breakthrough in energy storage. | Continue reading
Energy storage is making its presence known on California's electricity grid as projected shortfalls widen and deepen in the coming years. (Dr. Emmett Brown just might be impressed.) | Continue reading
The 300 MW Basin Creek Solar Project would be built on ranch land in Butte and would supply energy to an expanding data center. | Continue reading
The solar industry cannot claim to be a clean energy source if it leaves a trail of hazardous waste. | Continue reading
A permit to expand Vistra's natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station in Monterey County, California to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been approved, setting the stage for the world to see gigawatt-scale battery energy storage for the first time ever. | Continue reading
With 182.5 MW and 730 MWh of capacity and expansion capabilities that would bring it to 1.1 GWh, the Moss Landing battery energy storage system is set to be even bigger than Tesla's Hornsdale project in Australia, as big-battery development takes off worldwide. | Continue reading
The startup claims to be “the world’s top supplier of graphene” and plans to release a non-flammable, environmentally friendly lithium battery that can charge “18 times faster than anything that is currently available on the market” — within the next year. | Continue reading
Researchers have looked at historical buying patterns across multiple countries and U.S. states, and found that starting near $1,000/kW of net present value broader uptake of residential solar begins, at $3,000/kw the market is really overheating, and at $7,000/kW it's projected … | Continue reading
Green Mountain Power has launched a real time blockchain tracked peer to peer platform, starting December 2, to allow businesses to purchase solar power from customers who own the rights to the renewable energy credits via a phone app, using LO3 Energy's backend software. | Continue reading
Engie has been selected to supply a solar power plant in Guam with 50 MWdc of generation capacity and approximately 300 MWh of storage - with the express purpose to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset. | Continue reading
Los Angeles' municipal utility has voted 5-0 to approve a 25-year contract with a 400 MWac solar plus 300 MW / 1.2 GWh energy storage facility, with the aggregate price of the electricity from the project at 3.962¢/kWh. | Continue reading
Power utilities are continuing a nationwide push for vehicle electrification to grow flat since ~2007 electricity demand, with Dominion Energy now aiming for a 100% electric school bus replacement program, starting with 50 by the end of 2020 in Virginia, along with Mid American p … | Continue reading
California regulators have approved an SDG&E proposal to install 3,000 to 6,000 medium and heavy vehicle charging stations, as well as a vehicle-to-grid pilot where 10 school buses will be tested for use as grid assets. | Continue reading
A general consensus among researchers is starting to arise, showing that reaching 80% wind plus solar across various markets in the United States can be done at pricing equal to or cheaper than the cost of electricity today. | Continue reading
Southern Company has partnered with esVolta in development of four energy storage projects totaling more than 86 MW / 345 MWh located in California. | Continue reading
The city's municipal utility is readying a 25-year power purchase agreement for 200 MWac of solar power at 1.997¢/kWh along with 100 MW / 400 MWh of energy storage at 1.3¢/kWh. | Continue reading
Plans for a 531 MW / 2125 MWh battery system are buried in the BLM’s assessment of the 690 MWac Gemini Solar project. | Continue reading
California utility PG&E has tested levels of residential solar power up to 100% penetration, and how to mitigate the effects of voltage and thermal overload via smart inverters and traditional transformer and circuit upgrades - with smart inverters shown to allow for up to 100% p … | Continue reading
The power giant says that coal, gas and nukes will not be able to compete with clean energy, and that renewable energy deployment is “just getting started”. | Continue reading
NREL researchers explore power-to-weight ratios in thin film solar pv products, looking at premium price ($1.25-$100/W) gigawatt scale niches not directly competing with crystalline silicon solar modules. | Continue reading
California's updated maps to the power grid - ICA 2.0 - went online as of December 28, offering insight at every point on the circuit which could affect how much solar can be attached. | Continue reading
Developers have applied to build 139 GWac of large-scale solar projects in the territory of six grid operators - around five times what is currently online across the country - and that figure doesn’t even cover the entire United States. By any metric, we are looking at an unprec … | Continue reading
NovaSolix hopes to use carbon nanotubes to capture a broader portion of the sun's electromagnetic spectrum, a process they hope will yield a 90% efficient solar cell at a tenth of the cost of modern solar modules. | Continue reading
The long-term, steady income of solar power complements the higher revenue, but harder work of traditional farming. The Massachusetts SMART program looks to increase this trend with "agrovoltaic" incentives for solar co-located with crops. | Continue reading
PG&E is seeking approval from California regulators for four energy storage projects totalling 567 MW / 2.27 GWh - including a 300 MW / 1200 MWh system by Vistra Energy, and a 182.5 MW / 730 MWh system by Tesla. | Continue reading
ASU energy security researcher Dr. Wesley Herche, joined pv magazine author John Weaver, to co-author this article describing the new thinking and calculations required to evaluate the value of requiring solar power to be installed at time of construction for all newly built home … | Continue reading