Norwegian Design Displays the Future of Solar Powered Factories The word ‘factory’ often evokes images of large, dull buildings. A Norwegian furniture factory is about to shatter that image with their new factory design. The design involves abundant greenery surrounding the building, but more importantly – a sustainable design that employs 1,200 solar panels churning …

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New Jersey’s Largest Community Solar Project to Sit on Industrial Roofs The concept of community solar farms is becoming increasingly more popular in recent years. An interesting story in this regard is that of New Jersey’s community solar plants. The unique thing about these community solar plants is that they will not take up public …

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Indian Developer Secures World’s Largest Solar Order While the concept of gigawatt-scale solar projects seemed surprisingly huge only a few years ago, it seems to have become more common in recent times. The latest evidence of this is the 8GW solar capacity awarded to Adani Green, part of which will be a 2GW single solar …

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A Post-Pandemic World and A Solar Energy Revolution Hardly any global event in the past 100 years has changed world views and priorities like the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many other sectors, the energy sector will likely never be the same. Many experts and institutions are voicing the fact that solar will emerge as the leading …

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Solar Power to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Renewable Fuel Swedish researchers from the Linköping University might be closer to a major breakthrough related to climate change and solar energy. The new study was published in ACS Nano. Results of the research indicate that it is possible to convert carbon dioxide into usable fuel that includes …

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Ambitious International Solar Power Export Plan Moves Ahead A first of its kind project that carries solar-generated electricity through an undersea cable will soon be a reality. A 2,360-mile cable will carry power generated by a PV plant in Australia, all the way to Singapore. A route survey for the cable will soon begin. Dubbed …

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Britain’s Largest Solar Plant Gets Green Signal With a total of nearly 900,000 solar panels, the 350 MW Cleve Hill Solar Park will be the UK’s largest solar plant. The plant will be housed on a 900-acre site and will power over 90,000 homes. It is one of the few solar farms of this size …

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Could Solar Plants Be the Answer for End-of-Life EV Batteries? Solar PV plants and Electric Vehicles are deemed to be the undeniable future of energy and mobility. However, each of these have their share of limitations. Electric vehicles come with batteries that do not last beyond a decade, and solar plants suffer from intermittence due …

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A New Breakthrough in Ultra-Thin Solar Cells When one hears the word solar, an image of vast fields or roofs with rectangular blue panels likely comes to mind. But that is about to change. A new, ultra-thin and ultra-flexible solar cell has been developed and tested. This same research was undertaken at the Monash University, …

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Amazon Closer to Going Total Solar Amazon has made quite a leap in their solar PV energy consumption, as they have decided to build 5 new utility-scale solar projects in the US, China and Australia. In over two decades of business, Amazon has gone a long way as far as size is concerned. With that …

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Finally, a Map That Shows Solar Energy Sites Worldwide For the first time, we have access to a globally open dataset of solar power sites worldwide. Four researchers from the University of Southampton published a report in the Nature journal and have worked on the ‘Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and …

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A Solar Cell Material That Might Change the Future The word bithiophenylethylammonium might look confusing. Well, it is a material that might have just become the key to high-efficiency solar power. When added to the surface of a perovskite, bithiophenylethylammonium stabilizes it, which is something scientists have been trying to achieve for years now. Perovskite …

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A New World Record for the Cheapest Solar Plant in the Land of Oil Abu Dhabi, an oil rich country, is building the world’s largest solar plant. This is a great proof of the inevitable transition to solar. But it is not just the size of the solar plant that widens our eyes, it is …

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Solar Officially Becomes the Cheapest Power Source for Most A new Bloomberg NEF study shows that prices for solar power have reached a record low. Solar PV, along with onshore wind are now the cheapest energy sources for two thirds of the world’s population. The interesting fact is that these two thirds of the population …

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The Impact on Solar PV During the COVID-19 Pandemic Within a few months, the Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy. All businesses are hit badly. The solar energy sector, however, is an interesting unfolding of a story. On the surface, the sector seems to have taken a hit like any other, however …

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Biggest Solar Tech to Look Out for in In about a century since the inception of solar PV, the technology has come a long way and experienced exponential growth in efficiencies and durability. At the same time, it underwent an exponential drop in costs, with a staggering 99% drop occurring in just 40 years. Interestingly, …

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