World Suddenly Goes Nuts Over Green Ammonia, Now That Green Hydrogen Is Old Hat
The ultimate squirrel trick: green ammonia launches sneak attack in waning days of Trump admin., with help from US Energy Deptartment.
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Array Technologies Announces SmarTrack™ Production Boost of up to 5%
Machine Learning Software Optimizes Energy Yield on Uneven Terrain and in Diffuse Light Conditions.
Floating Solar Industry Pulls Together To Develop Recommended Practices
Floating solar power plants have gone from a super niche sector of the solar market in 2012 and 2013 to a pretty popular option in 2020. It’s still not anywhere near as mature as on-land utility-scale solar power, though, so it seems sensible to pull the industry together and collect useful tips and experience for a set of recommended practices.
Astronergy Is The Top “Top Performer” In PVEL’s “2020 PV Module Reliability Scorecard”
The 2020 PV Module Reliability Scorecard from PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) and DNV GL is out, and the “top performers” have been pumping out press releases highlighting their commendable scores. But who is best of the best?
DNV GL Sets Out To Tackle Wind Turbine Blade Erosion
DNV GL, the world’s largest independent energy advisory and certification body, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new Joint Industry Project called COBRA intended to analyze damage and erosion caused to wind turbine blades from high-speed impacts of foreign objects such as raindrops.
New Fraunhofer Solar Cell Stringer Uses Adhesives For 2% Boost
An R&D team at Fraunhofer ISE has unveiled a new solar cell stringing machine that can boost cell performance 2% by using electrically conductive adhesives to fix solar cells to a foil substrate in a shingled pattern. The process reduces the number of manufacturing steps that soldering a connective ribbon would require, and imparts more efficient cell performance in several incremental ways.
Sunfolding’s Pneumatic Solar Tracker Builds 60 Megawatt Pipeline
Maverick pneumatic solar tracker maker Sunfolding has amassed a pipeline of 60 megawatts for the first quarter of 2019, following its 2018 commercial rollout, says Matthew Schneider, the vice president of product at the San Francisco-based company. Sunfolding also is supplying its first delivery contract for a utility-scale photovoltaic array, a 39 MW project in California, using the company’s motor-less T29 single-axis design.
Sunfolding’s Unique Solar Bellows Selected for CA Project
The ancient air bellows has been repurposed once again, to drive solar tracker arrays created by Sunfolding, of San Francisco, in a 39 megawatt installation at an undisclosed California location. The cost-saving design has attracted the attention of the ARPA-e program, DOE’s SunShot program, and several venture capitalists.
DNV Rolls Out Bifacial Solar Testbed In California
DNV has begun installing what it calls the largest bifacial solar panel test facility in the world, at Davis, California, with the goal of benchmarking brand variations in the market to facilitate widespread adoption. The $250,000 project recently won a $200,000 grant from the US Department of Energy.
Solar & Wind Energy Destined To Expand Faster Than Other Global Energy Sources — #CleanTechnica…
Global market analyst DNV GL peeled back the layers of its recent forecast on global energy source evolution to reveal that solar & wind energy, buoyed by offshore wind, will grow to represent nearly 70% of global electricity production by 2050, according to Richard Barnes, the Executive Vice President and Regional Manager for the Energy Business Area of the company in North America.
