by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
Almost 1,000MW of new-build battery assets were successful in the T-4 Capacity Market Auction (CMA) for delivery year 2027/28, which cleared yesterday (27 February) at an “all-time high” clearing price of £65/kW/year. Noted that this “all-time high” is £2/kW/year...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
Hemlock Semiconductor (USA), Wacker (Germany/USA) and OCI Malaysia together were able to increase their polysilicon exports to Vietnam from 18,672 MT in 2022 (+78.2%) to 33,265 MT in 2023. This growth more than compensated for the 13,918 MT they lost in business...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
14 GW for wafer cutting, 14 GW for cell processing, and 14 GW for module assebly will require an investment of CNY 9.63 billion ($1.33 billion) – Canadian Solar Aiko Solar says it will invest CNY 9.97 billion in a 10 GW facility. The company plans to build two...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
“With hindsight, Ouarzazate served as a testing ground for an immature CSP technology,” said another source. Technological problems stopped all output at a 150 MW plant there for a year from summer 2021, said two of the sources. ONEE cited problems at Noor...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
first attempt to build tandem solar cells based on CIGS and SWCNTCGIS cell with a 2,000 nm thick absorber achieved a maximum power conversion efficiency of 23.69%tandem cell, the scientists used a version of the CIGS cell with a 22.82% efficiency and a sample of the...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Solar News Stream
earlier version of VanValkenburg’s bill would have prohibited local governments from banning solar installations outright After pushback, the legislation was softened to say localities couldn’t limit the total amount, density or size of solar or energy storage...
