by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
Source US companies have announced more than 100,000 jobs in clean energy manufacturing since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) 69 new projects in the solar sector, adding 25,157 jobs to the US economy solar sector has also attracted the third-most...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
BloombergNEF is seeing ’energy storage systems’ – probably battery cells in packs, in 20’ shipping containers, decked out with supporting gear (HVAC, etc), and some sort of bus or combiner – below $100/kWh. Probably doesn’t include a DC to DC converter,...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
Source Shanghai Metals Market reported last week that the amount of polysilicon #inventories in China is approaching 250,000 metric tons 250k MT = 250 billion grams, 2.2 grams per watt of solar = 113.6 GW of solar capacity global price average fell by 4.1% to...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
Source engineers in the bowels of a nearly century-old apartment building drilled 14 holes to a depth of 500 feet to install a heating system that taps the constant temperature of subterranean rock In a U.S. first, they used a compact drilling rig that fits inside a...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
global solar cell and module manufacturing industry is currently operating at a utilization rate of approximately 50% global investments in new solar factories amounted to $80 billion in 2023 alone, which is two times more than in 2022 Chinese solar industry accounted...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
119-acre site is designed, owned, and operated by WattEV world’s first electric truck stop featuring a solar-powered microgrid with a battery energy storage system (BESS) and is capable of megawatt rapid charging (MCS) 16 dual-cord 360kW chargers connected to the grid...
