As electricity costs continue to rise, a solar power company has seen unprecedented demand from farms. MyPower, located in the Cotswolds, increased its annual panel installation rate from 7,000 to 27,000. According to the company’s managing director Ben Harrison, energy price rises are the reason for the meteoric rise in sales. As electricity costs continue […]
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As the demand for solar power soars, we’re well into the energy shift. Bloomberg’s senior renewable energy analyst, Rob Barnett, predicted worldwide solar capacity installations will expand by 30 percent this year and continue to grow at a double-digit rate through 2023 and 2025. Astonishing is an understatement when it comes to the global solar
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Barcelona has teamed up with a secondary school and a residents’ association to build a solar energy community that can spread across broad portions of the city, rooftop by rooftop. Rooftop solar panels at Poblenou’s Quatre Cantons Secondary School provide electricity to the school and 30 nearby families. For every 500 watts of electricity used,
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“Floating solar parks” are being developed in the North Sea. German energy company RWE has agreed to invest in a trial project focusing on the deployment of floating solar technology in the region. The Merganser pilot, located off the coast of Ostend, Belgium, has a peak power output of 0.5 megawatts, or MWp. RWE announced
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Councilors have voted down plans for a solar farm. Croup Hill (Murton), County Durham, was earmarked for a 100-acre development by Aura Power. MPC, the local parish council, and 75 residents all spoke out against it, calling it “overpowering” in the open countryside. The idea was rejected by Durham County Council’s planning committee, notwithstanding the
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Councilors in North Yorkshire have approved plans to build a solar farm of 50 football fields. An area of around 28.5 hectares will be developed in Seamer. There could be enough power generated to power 9,600 houses, according to the developer Voltalia, a French renewable energy company. It was learned that eight residents objected to
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The first Jersey ground-mounted solar farm’s plans have been made public. St Clement fields, Jersey Electricity’s 12-acre location, is part of a sequence of similar initiatives. Within a few years, there will be a succession of ground-based solar developments “strategically situated” in “carefully selected” locations. Power for 1,500 houses a year was claimed by the
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Creating windows that generate electricity has just taken a significant step closer to becoming a reality. An ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science team led by Professor Jacek Jasieniak from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University has created perovskite cells with a conversion efficiency of 15.5% that allow more than
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As the International Energy Agency has pointed out, China’s hegemony in the solar panel supply chain could impede the worldwide shift to cleaner energy sources. More than 80 percent of solar panel manufacturing is currently done by Chinese companies, according to a new analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA). By 2025, that figure might
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