Canadian Solar has won three solar power contracts with Alberta’s Ministry of Infrastructure for a 94MW PV portfolio in southeast Alberta, Canada. The projects hold an average contracted PPA price of US$36.27 per MWh. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] German solar inverter maker SMA Solar Technology this month gave 260,000 customers the ability to claim a cryptocurrency called SolarCoin in exchange for solar energy. The scheme, available as a feature in SMA’s Sunny Portal software for Webconnect and Sunny Home Manager customers, allows PV system owners to collect a SolarCoin for every…
By [email protected] German solar inverter maker SMA Solar Technology this month gave 260,000 customers the ability to claim a cryptocurrency called SolarCoin in exchange for solar energy. The scheme, available as a feature in SMA’s Sunny Portal software for Webconnect and Sunny Home Manager customers, allows PV system owners to collect a SolarCoin for every…
By [email protected] German solar inverter maker SMA Solar Technology this month gave 260,000 customers the ability to claim a cryptocurrency called SolarCoin in exchange for solar energy. The scheme, available as a feature in SMA’s Sunny Portal software for Webconnect and Sunny Home Manager customers, allows PV system owners to collect a SolarCoin for every…
Shell is to acquire German battery storage manufacturer sonnen in a bid to accelerate its home energy services position. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) are set to finance a new solar plant set to be developed in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
After China connected a huge battery to a project combining solar, wind and other generation sources, a US utility project has just been announced which will likewise combine solar and wind with a grid-scale battery. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
Module manufacturer JA Solar expects glass-glass bifacial modules to become the mainstay of the Middle East market. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
Described as a project of ‘strategic importance’ for India’s entire energy sector, the country’s first grid-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage system officially went into service this week. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
Solar PV capacity will overtake wind within five years, according to a new forecast, but wind power generation will outpace that of solar. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
The largest solar panel rooftop installation in the Baltic States recently started operations atop the RETAL factory in Lentvaris,- around 10 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The installation has a total generation capacity of 1.4MW. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
California-based E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation (E&B) is investing in PV energy in order to help run its oil production facilities in both Santa Barbara and Kern counties. Once these two PV projects are completed, they will help cut down carbon dioxide emissions by more than 700,000 metric tons over the 20-year life of the…
By Kelly Pickerel Suntuity AirWorks, a subsidiary of solar provider Suntuity Inc., has launched a new U.S. dealership. The AirWorks dealer program will enable established solar vendors to add drone inspection of residential and commercial PV installations. Services, including the Solar Health Checkup using specialized thermography drones, are designed to rapidly diagnose PV defects without…
By Billy Ludt Tigo Energy, the creator of the Smart Modular Flex MLPE platform, unveiled the updates to its SMART Website, the company’s next-generation online monitoring platform. The SMART Website manages system-, string- and module-level data for utility, commercial and residential PV systems. System analytics track production, send alerts and proactively suggest maintenance actions to…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded $9.6 million in funding to 12 projects and study initiatives that will look to further integrate distributed energy resources (DER) into Australia’s electricity grid. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech