R AS Published on Monday 18 November 2019 - n° 298 - Categories:Thread of the Week
le Fil de la Semaine n°298 of November 18
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE
* The Minister for Ecological Transition reminds that it is up to the government to set energy policy.
THE SUBSIDIARY
* World average electricity cost nearly halved in two years
THE WORLD
* The United States has just relaunched its investment in PV R&D
PRODUCTS
* Lithium, situation and forecasts
THE COMPANIES
* Canadian Solar in Q3: postponement of power plant disposals
Other interesting articles :
FRANCE
* Neoen in the third quarter: strong growth
* Committed in the 3rd quarter: the RE are still well reduced
* Restoring consumer confidence when renovating buildings to make them more energy efficient
* * Good start to the sale of the panels live
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THE FILE
* How to make concentration plants profitable
* Will there be any brakes on the installation of solar power plants in the 2020s?
* Should lead in perovskite cells be banned?.
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THE WORLD
* China will install 26 GW in 2019
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THE COMPANIES
* Daqo in Q3: strong increase in production capacity
* Start-up of the Austrian Energetica plant
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MISCELLANEOUS
* Soon hydrogen-powered buses in Germany?
R AS Published on Wednesday 13 November 2019 - n° 297 - Categories:Thread of the Week
le Fil de la Semaine n°297 of November 13th
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE
* French people's resistance to photovoltaic panels
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THE FILE
* LONGi does not believe in competition with TOPCon or heterojunction cells.
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THE WORLD
* Will the new European Commission be the climate change Commission?
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* What if we were to reach the end of a power plant installation phase?
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THE COMPANIES
* Sunpower, the subsidiary of Total, will be split in two :
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FRANCE
* EDF invests in storage
THE FILE
* Wind and solar power now at the operating cost of coal or nuclear power plants
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* Next construction of a 2.1 GW floating power plant
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THE PRODUCTS
* A study on battery recycling
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* New (very odd) justification for the interest of two-sided panels
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THE COMPANIES
* SMAs in the first nine months of 2019: better
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* SolarEdge in the 3rd quarter: less profit
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* Baywa r.e. plans to build 100 MW of floating power plants in the Netherlands by 2020
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MISCELLANEOUS
* New: recharging car batteries without connecting wires!
R AS Published on Monday 4 November 2019 - n° 296 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°296 of November 4th
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE
* Electricity feed-in tariffs for the 4th quarter
THE FILE
THE WORLD
* China officially installed 16 GW in the first nine months of 2019 + 20 to 24 GW will be installed in China in 2019
THE COMPANIES
* SunPower still losing money in the 2019 financial year
MISCELLANEOUS
* Fluorescent dyes activated by light to detect cancer cells
FRANCE
* The SER-SOLER solar commission has renewed its governance
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THE SUBSIDIARY
* Network parity in the world
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THE WORLD
* pvXchange: the shortage of skilled workers in PV in Germany
* The Spanish solar bubble would be ready to burst
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THE PRODUCTS
* Factors driving down battery prices
* Tesla modifies its solar tiles and marketing
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THE COMPANIES
* 12th capacity increase announcement in 2019 for LONGi
* In the third quarter, Enphase Energy doubles its sales with excellent profitability
* Good growth for Iberdrola over nine months
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MISCELLANEOUS
* Non-battery storage, by hydraulic pumping, hydrogen or thermal storage, is in full expansion.
* One protein could boost a perovskite cell by 14 to 17%.
R AS Published on Monday 28 October 2019 - n° 295 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°295 of October 28th
THE IMPORTANT POINTS OF THIS WEEK'S NEWS (le Fil de la Semaine n°295 of October 28th)
If there were only five texts to read this week :
THE FILE
* Considerable potential for rooftop solar installations
* PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) avoids giving its opinion on the bifacial
THE WORLD
* Photovoltaic installations in China in the third quarter: very few in number
PRODUCTS
* ENEL starts manufacturing heterojunction panels
* Production of perovskite-on-silicon solar cells begins
Other interesting articles :
THE FILE
* The size of the inserts has a direct effect on the manufacturer's guarantee.
* The world's largest developers of solar projects
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THE WORLD
* The US tax credit will probably be renewed.
* Call for tenders in Germany at 0.049 euros
* Is the current boom in photovoltaic construction in Spain sustainable?
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THE PRODUCTS
* Microquanta achieved a conversion rate of 14.2% on a perovskite solar panel.
* Q Cells introduces a new panel, storage device and energy management
* A panel+storage+energy management package with LG
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THE COMPANIES
* First Solar: opening of the factory and 3rd quarter accounts
* Meyer Burger is looking for a way to survive + Meyer Burger still selling assets
* Scatec's quarterly results more than brilliant
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MISCELLANEOUS
* First rechargeable lithium-carbon dioxide (CO2) battery pack
* The cost of fouling the photovoltaic panels would have reached 3 to 5 billion dollars in 2018.
R AS Published on Monday 21 October 2019 - n° 294 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°294 of October 21st
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE
* The EPP prescribes 4 GW / year; less than 1 GW is installed!
* The French delay in the PV is linked to a great lack of knowledge
THE WORLD
* The European electricity market is characterised by a shift from coal to gas.
* Profits of photovoltaic companies in China reach record levels
PRODUCTS
* Can batteries provide power during a prolonged power failure?
Other interesting articles :
FRANCE
* Seven independent renewable energy producers supply Plüm Energie
* Assessing the potential of your home in the Ile-de-France region
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THE WORLD
* The main motivation for storage in the United States, to avoid electricity shortages
* In Spain, 1.5 GW connected in 9 months. 4 GW was expected within a year.
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THE PRODUCTS
* Falling lithium prices affect the profits of lithium producers
* Motech reaches 23.1% with a TOPCon cell
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THE COMPANIES
* LONGi can supply 27% of the world's wafers and 10% of the world's panels by 2020.
* Wacker revises downwards its 2019 forecasts
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MISCELLANEOUS
* Another wind turbine system: at altitude
R AS Published on Monday 14 October 2019 - n° 293 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°293 of October 14th
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE
* All is well! Madam Minister: €12.1bn for the climate in France in 2020
* Finergreen analyses the results of the RCE 4.8 ISB call for tenders
THE WORLD
* Europe could produce three times as much electricity from solar and wind power
* Germany sets a target of 98 GW of solar energy by 2030
THE COMPANIES
* Four Europeans have launched their green hydrogen production project
FRANCE...
* Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) acquires the PV and wind assets of Vol-V
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THE FILE
* Solar asset holdings around the world
* The different EPC directors in the world
* To reduce the cost of operating power stations, digital technology is essential.
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THE WORLD
* The exemption from US customs duties on double-sided panels is abolished.
* Finding electricity generators to compensate for the closure of gas-fired power plants in California
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THE PRODUCTS
* More and more inverters at the end of their service life are being used
* Next steps for heterojunction (HJT)
* REC Solar starts production of a heterojunction panel
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THE COMPANIES
R AS Published on Monday 7 October 2019 - n° 292 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°292 of October 7th
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
THE SUBSIDIARY* The global race for dominance of the clean energysector
............................................... * The war over platelet size is raging
............................................... * A first study of the contribution of two-sided panels
THE WORLD * Electricity with storage at $0.022 per kWh in the US
PRODUCTS * Start of commercialization of perovskite cells in 2021-2022?
Other interesting articles :
FRANCE
* Commercial signs are going solar
* Neoen has completed the 51 MW Paradise Park solar power plant in the Caribbean
* Sun'R-Volterres orders a power station from the Générale du Solaire
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THE SUBSIDIARY
* The emergence of the bifacial and the albedo
* Tesla plans to put a new battery into service at the end of 2020.
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THE COMPANIES
* REC Silicon plans to sell its Montana plant
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MISCELLANEOUS
* An American clean energy supply platform is expanding its activity to Europe.
R AS Published on Monday 30 September 2019 - n° 291 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°291 of September 30th
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R AS Published on Monday 30 September 2019 - n° 291 - Categories:Thread of the Week
Le Fil de la Semaine n°291 of 30 September (B)
THIS WEEK'S NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
If there were only five texts to read this week :
FRANCE* The inadequacies of the Energy-Climate law, according to Enerplan
................................... * Finergreen analyzes the results of the Fessenheim call for tenders
................................... *Already derives 10-15% of the costs of the Hinkley project for EDF
THE DIVISION * Should the lifespan of the panels be reduced from 25 years to 10 or 15 years?
PRODUCTS* Using PV energy for industrial processes
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FRANCE* 12 laureates for the 1st stage of the Fessenheim call for tenders
...............................* Engie invests in solar + storage projects in the US
...............................* Neoen's half-yearly accounts are brilliant
...............................* Voltalia acquires its sister company Helexia
...............................* Voltalia's half-yearly accounts: can do better
...............................* Inauguration of the SUNCNIM concentration plant
...............................* Sonnedix has 252 MW in operation in France
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THE FILE* The Chinese cell industry for four months, according to PV InfoLink
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THE WORLD* Austria wants to reach 100% RE in 2030
L R AS Published on Monday 23 September 2019 - n° 280 - Categories:Thread of the Week
le Fil de la Semaine n°290 of September 23rd
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