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Latin America’s ‘Largest’ Solar PV Complex Online In Brazil
864 MW São Gonçalo Solar Power Complex Starts Commercial Operations In Brazil With Enel Green Power Switching On 256 MW Under Phase III
Enel Green Power (EGP) Brasil has commissioned 256 MW São Gonçalo III solar PV project in Brazil’s Piauí and with this, it has brought online 864 MW São Gonçalo Solar Complex calling it the ‘largest’ operational solar power facility in Lat.
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100 MW Floating Solar PV Power Plant In Indonesia
PT PLN Nusantara Power Looking For Strategic Partner To Build 100 MW Floating Solar PV Power Plant In East Java’s Malang District
Indonesia is planning a large scale floating solar power plant with 100 MW capacity for which local utility PT PLN Nusantara Power (PLN NP) is looking for a strategic partner and has launched a pre-qualification process to select one.
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Sweden’s Cumulative Installed PV Till 2022-End: 2.6 GW
Swedish Solar Energy Association Svensk Solenergi Counts Country To Have Deployed Nearly 1 GW New Solar PV Capacity In 2022
In 2022, Sweden brought online close to 1 GW of new solar PV capacity, according to the country’s local solar energy association Svensk Solenergi, which takes its cumulative installed capacity till the end of December 2022 to 2.6 GW.
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China PV News Snippets
Listen To JinkoSolar At Taiyangnews Conference On Jan 31 & More From Taizhou
JinkoSolar will be part of the TaiyangNews Solar Module Innovations Conference scheduled to take place on January 31, 2023 from 09.30 to 13.30 CET; Taizhou City’s installed PV capacity touches 1.79 GW and expectation is that it will grow further to 3 GW.
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Solar Fabs Attracted $23.9 Billion Investment In 2022
Renewables Led Global Energy Transition Investment Of $1.1 Trillion With 13% Annual Increase In 2022; BloombergNEF Says Not Enough
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BloombergNEF) believes with $1.1 trillion investment in low-carbon energy transition in 2022, including $23.9 billion for solar manufacturing factories, these technologies seem to have reached parity with capital deploye.
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2.5 GW Panel Deal Between Qcells & Microsoft
Touting A Completely Domestic Solar Supply Chain In US, Qcells Bags Microsoft Deal For 2.5 GW Solar Modules, Development & EPC Services
South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions’ owned Qcells has announced an agreement to supply 2.5 GW US made solar panels, develop PV projects and also offer EPC services for select projects of tech giant Microsoft that the latter has contracted through power purchase agreements (EPC) in the US.
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Encavis & ILOS Partner For 300 MW Solar Projects In Italy
With 300 MW Solar Project Investment, Encavis Expands Its Solar Project Pipeline to 2.6 GW
Germany based renewable energy producer Encavis announced that it has signed a deal with ILOS, a venture company, for 300 MW pipeline of solar projects in Italy.
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High Efficiency Cell Production Equipment From China And Korea
While LAPLACE Is Promoting Latest TOPCOn Equipment, Jusung Is Offering HJT Processing Tools
LAPLACE has recently released TOPCon core equipment and solutions as the global photovoltaic sector is experiencing increasing activity with n-type technology developments. LAPLACE, an experienced provider of production equipment and process solu.
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TUV Rheinland’s New Laboratory Center Opens In China
German Testing & Certification Firm TUV Rheinland Opens Laboratory Center In China’s Jiangsu With Dedicated Solar PV Module Lab
Germany based global chain of testing and certification firm TUV Rheinland is building the ‘largest laboratory site’ in China’s Jiangsu province to be spread in 37,000 sq mtr space that includes a solar PV module testing laboratory spread on ov.
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Semco Smartech Speaks on Current TOPCon Cell Manufacturing Trends
Video: Semco Smartech CEO Raymond De Munnik Presented Manufacturing Trends and Cost Comparisons for TOPCon cells
During the TaiyangNews Virtual Conference on High Efficiency Solar Technologies 2022 – TOPCon, HJT and Beyond, Today & Tomorrow, Raymond De Munnik, CEO SEMCO Smartech emphasized that TOPCon is a mature technology already in 2022, with a ‘big cell line installation boom’ going on.
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Nano-Silicon From Solar Panels For Lithium-Ion Batteries
Deakin University Scientists Successfully Extract Silicon From Old Solar Panels To Develop New Battery Anode For Energy Storage Industry
Scientists from Deakin University of Australia have successfully tested a new, non-toxic process to safely and effectively extract silicon from solar panels reaching their end-of-life, then using this nano-silicon worth $45,000/kilo with graphite to .
Seasons Greetings from TaiyangNews
The TaiyangNews – All About Solar Team Wishes You A Sunny And Peaceful 2023
Dear TaiyangNews Readers, As another record growth year is coming to an end for solar, the sector is still struggling from supply chain issues (now mostly inverters, batteries), high prices (though easing towards the end of the year), and increasing market protection measures in a de-globalizing world that is, moreover, facing rising geostrategic tensions and a fossil-fuel based energy crisis as a consequence of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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N-type Is The Way To Go & TOPCon Is The Choice For Now
TOPCon Still Dealing With Several Obstacles To Growth, Say Astronergy Executives in Q&A, But See Its Costs Becoming Comparable To PERC By 2022-End
TOPCon has become a buzzword in the PV community. Several companies have been announcing gigantic plans with the technology and few have made their first move with Astronergy being one among them.
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Costs and Power Performance Speak For TOPCon
Both TOPCon & HJT Are Meritorious, But Maturity Of Industry Chain, Efficiency & Cost Optimization Decide Which Technology Will Be Eventually Adopted, Says JA Solar’s Tang Kun
TaiyangNews: JA Solar has now announced big plans for TOPCon. On the other hand, you are also among the companies that started pilot projects with HJT.
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HJT Entering High Volume Production
New Innovative Tools Support Large HJT Modules As The High Efficiency Technology Is Starting Mass Production Phase
As a technology, HJT has made remarkable progress, not referring to its infinite past, but just in the last 1.5 years. The latest reference point is our previous report on the topic that was published end of 2020.
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The Status Quo of HJT Processing
Huasun CTO Wenjing Wang About Latest HJT Developments And What’s In Store For The HJT Shooting Star From China
TaiyangNews: What was it that attracted Huasun to HJT? Wenjing Wang: The first driver is our technical background; both our operation and R&D teams have a solid background in HJT.
Reports & Market Survey
Global PV Tender Snippets
Solar PV Tender Snippets From Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur, Africa’s Eritrea
This is a weekly overview on solar tender information TaiyangNews has published as part of stories on its website over the course of the past week – this time from Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur, Africa’s Eritrea.
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Germany Launches 1.95 GW Solar PV Projects Tender
Bundesnetzagentur Seeking Bidders For 1.95 GW Utility Scale Solar PV Capacity With €0.0737/kWh Ceiling Tariff
Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur or the Federal Network Agency is seeking bidders for 1.95 GW utility scale solar PV capacity to be built on arable land and grassland in disadvantaged areas, capping the bids at €0.0737/kWh.
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30 MW Solar PV Power Plant Coming Up In Africa’s Eritrea
Eritrean Government Looking For Consultants To Advice On African Development Fund Backed 30 MW Dekemhare Solar PV Project
Located on the Red Sea Coast in northeast Africa, Eritrea is looking at installing An African Development Fund (ADF) backed 30 MW solar PV project in Dekemhare with a battery energy storage system (BESS) and is looking for a project supervision and management consultant for the same.
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Global PV Tender Snippets
Solar PV Tender Snippets From UAE’s EWEC, India’s RUVNL, Chile’s Codelco & Switzerland’s Pronovo
This is a weekly overview on solar tender information TaiyangNews has published as part of stories on its website over the course of the past week – this time from UAE’s EWEC, India’s RUVNL, Chile’s Codelco & Switzerland’s Pronovo .
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Switzerland Launches Maiden Auction For HEIV Funding
Switzerland’s Pronovo Open Bidding Round For 50 MW Solar PV Capacity For Systems Above 150 kW Under HEIV Scheme
Switzerland’s enforcement agency for federal subsidy program for electricity production from renewable energies, Pronovo has invited bids to award state subsidy under the country’s newly announced high one-time payment for photovoltaic systems (HEIV) scheme to solar PV systems.
Top Solar Modules Listing – Dec. 2022 / Jan. 2023
Monthly TaiyangNews Update on Commercially Available High Efficiency Solar Modules
Ending our first year and starting the 2023 cycle for our Top Solar Modules ranking, we feature 34 products in our December/January edition, 3 more than in the November listing.
ReneSola Senior Executives Join EU Backed New Solar Platform
ReneSola’s Ex-Europe CEO Josef Kastner & Ex-Director France & Spain Chloe Durieux To Spearhead Pan-European Solar Development Platform Of Marguerite
A pan European solar development platform with a mandate to install over 2 GW new solar PV capacity, recently launched by the European Union (EU) backed Marguerite fund, has appointed former senior executives with ReneSola, Josef Kastner and Chloe Durieux as its leadership team.
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Hans-Martin Rüter Joins Solar German Electricity Company
Ex-Conergy Founder & CEO Hans-Martin Rüter Now German Solar Leasing And Installation Company DZ-4 GmbH As CEO
Hamburg, Germany based residential solar system supplier and installer and a wholly owned subsidiary of energy utility EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, DZ-4 GmbH has a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Hans-Martin Rüter who was previously the fo.
