“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Suppose it heeds the International Energy Agency’s request to diversify the world’s solar cell supply chain. In that case, Australia might begin a “renaissance” in solar manufacturing and have a rare opportunity to expedite its transition to renewable energy. According to an agency assessment released on Friday, more than 80 percent of PV solar supply …
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Hundreds of electric cars will be able to be charged at a superhub in Europe that opens on Tuesday. In an Oxford park and ride, Pivot Power has built a £41 million energy center that includes 42 EV charging outlets and can recharge a vehicle in as little as 20 minutes, according to the company. …
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For the first time, a working sand battery has been erected in Finland that can store renewable energy for months at a time. According to the creators, this could solve the perennial problem of insufficient year-round supply of green energy. The device is powered by cheap solar or wind energy and is heated by low-grade …
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