L R AS Published on Monday 15 January 2024 - n° 471 - Categories:new development
QCells to supply 12 GW of panels to Microsoft
QCells will supply 12 GW of panels and engineering services,
L R AS Published on Sunday 17 December 2023 - n° 470 - Categories:French companies, new development
Software for assessing photovoltaic systems on buildings
France's Heliocity has developed HelioFlash, a series of artificial intelligence algorithms that assess photovoltaic systems on buildings and make recommendations for improving operations.
L R AS Published on Sunday 17 December 2023 - n° 470 - Categories:new development
A guide to best practice for installing floating solar power plants
SolarPower Europe has published best practice for the installation of floating solar power plants with practical advice for project developers. It shows the expertise gained from years of experience in developing such plants.
In 2022,
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 December 2023 - n° 469 - Categories:new development
Salt water battery and heat pump
Norway's Statkraft is studying the scalability and commercial viability of Aquabattery's technology, which has developed a battery based on salt water. It will fund a pilot project lasting six to twelve months in the Netherlands.
This flow battery is capable of independently modifying power (kW) and energy (kWh) capacity. It is also said to be inexpensive,
L R AS Published on Saturday 11 November 2023 - n° 465 - Categories:panels, new development
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L R AS Published on Monday 12 June 2023 - n° 449 - Categories:new development
Producing drinking water from atmospheric humidity
British researchers have developed a system called Solar2Water, which extracts moisture from the air to produce drinking water. This system generates
L R AS Published on Saturday 3 June 2023 - n° 448 - Categories:new development
Setting up a solar simulator to analyse perovskite
Fraunhofer ISE has set up a solar simulator. This is a test and measurement device for perovskite photovoltaic cells and panels. It involves
L R AS Published on Saturday 27 May 2023 - n° 447 - Categories:new development
Devices to monitor the state of the electricity network
TH Köln's Institute of Electrical Energy Engineering is developing communicating charging stations for network monitoring. The wall-mounted boxes can independently analyse the state of the network and
L R AS Published on Monday 22 May 2023 - n° 446 - Categories:new development
New tools are needed to counterbalance intermittency
The intermittency of renewables requires the use of tools such as energy storage and virtual power plants. But with new technologies being used by the grid and consumers, utilities and regional transmission operators must employ
L R AS Published on Monday 17 April 2023 - n° 441 - Categories:new development
Assembly of various domestic appliances by Toshiba
Japan's Toshiba has completed a "future-proof" housing project in the UK. It combined two 11 kW air-source heat pumps
L R AS Published on Sunday 19 March 2023 - n° 437 - Categories:new development
A mobile container containing a power plant
The Austrian Alternative Energy Projects (AEP) has developed a container consisting of photovoltaic panels, a battery storage system and a hydrogen storage system. The system starts
L R AS Published on Sunday 19 March 2023 - n° 437 - Categories:new development
Recycling of wind turbine blades
Spanish company Acciona Energia uses fibreglass from used wind turbine blades to make the torsion beams for solar trackers.
AS Published on Sunday 4 December 2022 - n° 427 - Categories:new development
PV glazing reduces energy consumption in buildings
PV windows reduce energy consumption by 40% in glazed buildings in eight regions of the United States,
L R AS Published on Monday 9 May 2022 - n° 403 - Categories:new development, tandem cells
Next production of tandem panels in the USA
California-based Tandem PV has raised $6 million to build a pilot plant at its headquarters in San Jose, California. It will manufacture its first tandem solar panels there
L R AS Published on Monday 13 December 2021 - n° 386 - Categories:new development
In brief news: joint wind-solar production of Windbox, AES robot; split Terre et Ciel - Terre et Ciel Conseil which becomes Sépale
In brief news: joint wind-solar production of Windbox, AES robot; split Terre et Ciel - Terre et Ciel Conseil which becomes Sépale
French start-up Wind my Roof has created a 1.8 kW wind generator