Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Built with the future of energy transition in mind, the NExT Factory leverages the natural advantage of renewable energy sources like solar power to produce direct current. But we seized it as an opportunity to break new ground.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While tariffs may keep some products at a higher price, advances across the board to bring hard and soft costs down are making solar systems more affordable and efficient as possible. The SPW editors traveled… The post Editor picks for the Top Solar Products of 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Most school installations include some educational aspect, from monitoring kiosks to show students the day’s energy… The post 8 schools that went solar in 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 27, 2019

Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for more than one-fifth (20.1%) of net domestic electrical generation during the first six months of 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 29, 2020

The company leveraged a subset of its data repository of PV system “digital twins” to query 7,880 MW across 25 countries and 6 continents to help PV system owners and operators benchmark and improve their… The post Aerial thermography study finds offline inverters caused 27% of lost solar production in 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World. (..)

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 30, 2019

The National Solar Tour will empower people across the country to learn about solar technology and the process of going solar from their… The post 2019 National Solar Tour includes every state for the first time appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Solar-powered sensors and wireless gateways attached to trees are the basis of the system developed by environmental IoT startup Dryad Networks , in addition to a patent-pending distributed mesh architecture. Seed funding of 1.8million has been secured for a large-scale IoT network to detect wildfires.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Residential solar company Sunnova experienced a surge in customers buying energy storage in the fourth quarter of 2019, CEO John Berger said on an earnings call Tuesday. The share of customers opting for batteries alongside solar, referred to as the "attachment rate," jumped from 15 percent in Q3 to 24 percent in Q4.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Energy Information Administration (EIA) for the first 10 months of 2019, the mix of renewable energy sources is on track to place first in the race for new U.S. electrical generating… The post More renewable energy expected to be built in 2019 than any other form of U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 When the Kentucky Coal Museum puts solar on its roof because it is cheaper than hooking up to the coal-fired grid at its doorstep, it’s over. To put it simply, that is record-cheap solar power.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. on solar power would require a substantial amount of backup power or storage for when the sun isn’t shining. I also knew that my solar PV calculation was subject to many assumptions, and the answer could therefore be 50% too large or 50% too small.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 24, 2020

In 2019, global PV inverter shipments increased by 18% on a YOY basis with total shipments reaching 126,735 MW, according to a report released by Wood Mackenzie. The company has been pursuing a global strategy… The post Growatt ranked eighth in global PV inverter shipments in 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

But the next year, everything changed: the 10 utilities planning to install storage in their 2019 IRPs called for five times more capacity, on average, than the utilities including it in their 2018 plans. As a result, the combined resource plans now anticipate 6.3 gigawatts of battery deployments from 2020 to 2029.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans. Heliogen (IdeaLab): Capturing carbon with solar-powered, desert-based DAC plants. Gross then described the solar-powered DAC process his team at Heliogen has designed.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2020

The SEG replaces the Export Tariff, which was scrapped in April 2019 along with the Generation Tariff under the government’s Feed-In Tariff scheme. per kWh of power exported to the grid. The Export Tariff provided a fixed rate of 5.2p Suppliers will be required to offer tariffs with rates above 0p/kWh.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In June, we said goodbye to coal by dismantling FPL’s last coal plant in Florida just as we surpassed 40% of the way toward completing our ’30-by-30’ plan to install 30 million solar panels by 2030. The original construction to build the solar center started in 2019. Registration is free and sessions on demand.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Many global names set up shop in the country in 2019 to help push the United States to bigger domestic capacity numbers. Here are the Top 10 largest solar panel assembly facilities in the United States… The post The largest solar panel manufacturers in the United States by capacity appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 2, 2019

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the first three-quarters of 2019, solar and wind provided nearly six-times as much new generating capacity as natural gas in September.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The 10th annual National Solar Jobs Census was released today by The Solar Foundation, and it shows the U.S. solar industry increased employment 2.3% since 2018, employing nearly 250,000 workers in 2019. after two years of losses appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Don McEachin and co-sponsored by over 150 members could set the United States on a path to an economy powered by 100% clean energy by mid-century.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 16, 2020

A review: All imported solar panels were taxed beginning in 2018. Bifacial modules received a full exclusion in June 2019. Tariff exemption for bifacial modules was first revoked in October 2019.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT), a Dallas, Texas-based perovskite material developer, reached a milestone in the development of a highly-durable perovskite technology for the manufacture of low-cost printed solar cells.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 4, 2020

Inovateus Solar, a Midwest solar developer, has released its first annual sustainability report. The report outlines the company’s 2019 sustainability initiatives and sets new decade goals for developing sustainable solar projects with zero-waste construction and sustainable end-of-life-cycle decommissioning.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

California’s Solar Bill of Rights is an entirely different piece of legislation than when it was proposed; Oregon’s… The post West Coast legislators are at a solar crossroad <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>2019 Regional Solar Policy Report</span> appeared first on Solar Power World. (..)

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Iowa-headquartered solar installer Moxie Solar, which installed almost 5 MW of projects in 2018 and likely tripled its business in 2019, has announced plans to set up a 100-MW solar panel assembly operation in Iowa. “If

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2019, Environment America and its state affiliates played a key role in convincing New Mexico, Maine and Washington to make commitments to 100% clean or renewable energy. Burning fossil fuels… The post 15 states are calling for 100% clean energy with backing of Environment America appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

JULY 12, 2021

There have been some announcements of crystalline silicon solar panel manufacturing outfits coming to the United States in the last couple years, but so far, nothing new has opened since Q CELLS (Georgia), LG (Alabama) and JinkoSolar (Florida) unveiled their panel assembly facilities in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. That’s in a state that has not matched California in passing climate-oriented policies; in Arizona, dry sunny terrain make solar and batteries cheaper than gas plants, plain and simple. Massive utility procurements.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. Adding to its challenges, the grid operator is now contending with falling power demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

On November 21, 2019, MCE’s Board of Directors approved membership for the Cities of Vallejo and Pleasant Hill, setting the stage for MCE to offer a choice of electricity providers and clean electricity service to these communities.

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Solar Power World

JULY 21, 2021

When the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities announced a three-year community solar pilot program in 2019, many local installers scrambled to grab a piece of the initial 75-MW allotment.

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Solar Power World

APRIL 27, 2020

PV Leaderboard report by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, Q CELLS has the top market share in both the residential and commercial solar module markets in the United States. Q CELLS nearly doubled its market share in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Provisional data shows greenhouse gas emissions have fallen more than 45 per cent since 1990, as low carbon power again reached record levels in 2019. In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2 per cent in 2019, thanks in large part to slower road traffic growth and improving car fuel efficiency, the statistics show.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 5, 2020

Changes in Cost According to SEIA, solar system prices as of Q1 2019 are at their lowest levels in history across all market segments, dropping from $40,000 in 2010 to roughly $18,000 today, and we don’t expect that to slow down… The post 2020 Solar Trends to Watch appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 30, 2021

Demand for home solar soared in 2020, according to recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BloombergNEF) research, with U.S. residential solar installations jumping 21% in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2019. </span> appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Cool, sunny weather and the low air pollution levels caused by the coronavirus lockdown have helped drive a new all-time solar power record in the UK, with solar farms generating a peak of 9.69GW of electricity for the grid on Monday afternoon. The result is thought to have been in part driven by clearer, less polluted skies.

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