By Brian Wang Twin HTR-PM reactors will drive a single 210 MWe turbine in China’s high-temperature pebble bed reactor. This new reactor could eventually be mostly factory mass-produced. The higher temperature will make it about 45% thermal efficiency versus 34-40% efficiency for pressure water reactors. 18 more HTR-PM units are proposed at Shidaowan. * pebble…
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) Lordstown Motors released a handful of updates on its efforts to get an electric pickup truck into production at a discarded General Motors factory, including a statement on the company’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The company released the first of what it said will be a series of videos…
By [email protected] (Dr Alex Holland) IDTechEx forecast Li-ion demand to grow almost 10-fold from 2020-2030, but can supply meet this demand? Automotive manufacturers the world over are pledging to electrify their fleets. Volkswagen have a target of producing 1.5 million EVs by 2025 and have entered a joint venture with Northvolt to build a 16…
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) Rivian does expect a pandemic-related delay for the R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV, which were due to be produced starting late this year, the company confirmed to Green Car Reports Wednesday. A message to the Rivian community sent earlier in the day, with an accompanying video, included the following:…
By WPED Staff As cases of COVID-19 started cropping up across the United States in March, Caroline Shaw, sourcing manager at GE Renewable Energy’s wind turbine factory in Pensacola, Florida, knew the pandemic would alter many parts of her job. A team of her coworkers had been assigned to screen employees for fevers or other…
By Adrijana Buljan Siemens Gamesa has resumed production at its blade factory in Hull today (1 April), after pausing operations on 24 March. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Offshore Wind » News by topic
By Stephen Dunne COVID-19: Siemens Gamesa reopens Hull blade factory Read Full Article Here For more great articles: reNEWS – Renewable Energy News
By Kelly Pickerel U.S.-headquartered solar panel provider Solaria announced it has filed suit against Chinese panel manufacturer Canadian Solar in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit alleges that Canadian Solar, with operations in China and Southeast Asia, infringes Solaria’s U.S. patent that covers a process for separating PV…
By Joshua S Hill GCL System Integration is planning to build what would be the world’s largest solar PV module factory, capable of producing 60GW of solar panels each year. The post World’s largest solar PV module factory planned for China appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By [email protected] American solar manufacturers are deciding whether to keep workers on the line during the coronavirus crisis or let facilities go dark for an unknown period of time. Many are choosing to stay in operation despite the risks. The solar industry — like many others — has framed its workers as “essential” in the…
By Adnan Durakovic 96 percent of Europe’s wind turbine and component manufacturing factories continue to operate, WindEurope […] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Offshore Wind » News by topic
By Brian Wang Tesla Shanghai factory experts and key investors exchanged conference calls and the production level information from the call from Shengang Securities was obtained by Ranjing Finance, on March 1, 2020. Current production capacity of the first phase of the Tesla Shanghai plant is 2,000 units per week, with single shifts per day…
GCL-SI said that the COVID-19 outbreak had occurred in the first quarter of 2020, while production had now resumed. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] First Solar, the largest PV module maker in the Western hemisphere since opening a second factory in Ohio last year, said on Thursday that all of its global factories remain in production despite the coronavirus outbreak. On Sunday, March 22, Ohio issued a “stay-at-home” order for most workers; on Wednesday of this week,…
Musk claims PV facility recently closed in New York will make medical devices ‘as soon as humanly possible’. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech