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This is the Maxeon Air. It is a thin (4 mm), light, frameless panel that can be installed without fixing (by self-adhesive). It will be marketed in France

The French solar photovoltaic industry, represented by Enerplan, SER and the association Solidarités Renouvelables, filed an appeal with the French Council of State on Monday 29 November 2021 to obtain the suspension and annulment of the decree and order implementing the tariff reduction of the S06 and S10 solar contracts.The French photovoltaic industry, represented by Enerplan, SER and the Solidarités Renouvelables association, filed an appeal with the Conseil d'Etat on Monday 29 November 2021 to obtain the suspension and cancellation of the decree and order implementing the tariff reduction for S06 and S10 solar contracts

Greenpeace France and the Rousseau Institute wanted to know the respective costs of photovoltaic and wind power compared to nuclear power in order to shed light on the debate launched by the President of the Republic with his choice to resort to nuclear power plants

On 23 November, DualSun inaugurated its new production line in the Jujurieux factory (Ain, 01). It had been in operation for several quarters. The company triples its production capacity of Spring hybrid panels.

Ernst & Young found that utilities and financial investors are investing heavily in renewable energy, including hydrogen. An amount of

Despite the imminent closure of several ageing fossil fuel power stations in Australia, continued growth in renewable energy capacity (rooftop solar, wind and large-scale solar, as well as energy stored in large batteries) is expected to lower household electricity bills in the coming years.Despite the imminent closure of several ageing fossil fuel power stations in Australia, continued growth in renewable energy capacity (rooftop solar, wind and large-scale solar, as well as energy stored in large batteries) is expected to drive down household electricity bills in the coming years.

The Belgian institute EnergyVille has just compiled a list of Belgium's rooftop photovoltaic and onshore wind power potential. It arrives at a total volume of 118 GW (99.6 GW solar + 18.2 GW wind). Flanders has the largest rooftop solar potential with 65 MW; Wallonia has 30 GW and Brussels has 4 GW. At the end of 2020, Belgium had an installed capacity of 6 GW, almost exclusively residential and commercial solar.

These figures require the use of photovoltaic panels of 226 Wp per m², with a specified tilt and orientation per building type, while Belgium has between 930 and 1,060 hours of full load sunshine. This would produce 99.3 TWh per year.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/25/belgiums-rooftop-solar-potential-estimated-at-99-6-gw/

PV Magazine of 25 November 2021

Editor's note: This means that Belgium could install more than 16 times the current solar capacity by using only the roofs. This would leave the ground surfaces untouched

The vanadium flow battery technology was tested with a stand-alone charger in Australia. An AC charger was coupled to a 5 kW/30 kWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB)

In twenty years (between 1991 and 2021), the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 97%. Improvements in the technology

As electricity grids struggle to absorb renewable energy during generation, US solar developers are increasingly focusing on hybrid generation + storage projects to take advantage of the time lag between energy production and delivery

The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab estimates that 34% of

Shipments of Maxeon panels were blocked by transport problems: 37% of shipments, or 200 MW, were blocked at sea in ^Q3

France deployed more than 2 GW of PV in the first nine months of 2021 (compared to 0.8 GW last year), bringing the installed volume to 13.3 GW. This is mainly due to large plants: 65% of the connections are installations of more than 250 kW, which are only 1% of the total connections. Smaller installations (below 9 kW) account for almost 83% of the number of new connections and about 7% of the installed capacity.

The number of solar projects in the queue for grid connection has increased by 18% since the beginning of the year to 10.6 GW, of which 3 GW have a signed connection agreement.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/11/26/france-deployed-more-than-2-gw-of-pv-in-first-nine-months-of-2021/

PV Magazine of 26 November 2021

Editor's note: These figures are a welcome change from previous years. Before becoming too euphoric, we should know what was the postponement of the 2020 installations disrupted by the pandemic and which were completed in 2021.

L'installateur néerlandais Zonneplan a lancé cette semaine sa centrale électrique virtuelle et un système d'échange d'énergie qui numérise complètement la production, l'achat, la vente et le stockage de l'électricité.

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After having obtained in July 2021 from the European Commission a target of 40% of renewable energy in 2030, and then after much reflection, SolarPower Europe has changed its mind and now believes that the target is not sufficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55%.

In the first nine months of 2021, large-scale solar power additions in the US reached 8.4 MW, an increase of