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Interfloat Corporation, a European market leader for solar glass, has been bought by Holzverarbeiter HS Timber Group and Blue Minds. March 4, 2020Petra Hannen The move will see the timber processor and Israeli business innovation company enter the solar industry. Image: SolarWorld AG From pv magazine Germany. Austrian wood processing company HS Timber Group and […]
Researchers in China have ranked some of the most commonly used battery chemistries according to parameters deemed important for grid-level storage. The team gave a score in each category and determined a winner – and it wasn’t lithium-ion. March 4, 2020Marian Willuhn The battery in a gas-guzzling car is usually a lead-acid device and the […]
Researchers in China have developed an organic solar cell using a sequential solution treatment technique in which the donor and acceptor mixture blends are sequentially spin-coated. With this technique, the researchers say they are better able to modulate the morphology of the active layer. March 4, 2020Emiliano Bellini An electronic device relying on organic solar […]
Figure 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory A new report by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory highlights income trends among residential rooftop solar adopters. The study is based on address-specific income estimates and other financial metrics for roughly 1.4 million residential rooftop solar adopters across the country, representing the most extensive analysis of this topic to-date. The […]
Commercial solar developer Safari Energy announced a new partnership to develop several commercial solar projects for ShopCore Properties, a leading owner and operator of community, power and grocery anchored centers throughout the country. Part of The Blackstone Group, ShopCore Properties owns over 20 million square feet of real estate, with properties in densely populated sub-markets […]
Gabriela Burian, senior director of sustainable food systems at Bayer, says that hunger is an issue that the company is trying to combat. “Our goal is to make sure we empower especially farmers that are very small across the world and farmers that don’t have access to technology or to information,” Burian says. Bayer has […]
Faced with extreme weather events and unexpected and planned power outages, flexible energy storage solutions provide solar array owners with backup power from batteries when the lights go out. Recently, OutBack Power released an AC coupling firmware update to its SkyBox hybrid inverter. AC coupling is ideal when users have an existing solar PV system […]
Inovateus Solar, a Midwest solar developer, has released its first annual sustainability report. The report outlines the company’s 2019 sustainability initiatives and sets new decade goals for developing sustainable solar projects with zero-waste construction and sustainable end-of-life-cycle decommissioning. Inovateus Solar’s sustainable roots began in 2006 with its mission of “Building a Brilliant Tomorrow.” Since then, […]
Sharon Basel, senior manager of sustainability at General Motors, works a lot on the company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. “I think it’s a really important thing not to be taken lightly,” she says. “A lot of people inside of General Motors call it the encyclopedia of GM and I think how we portray […]
• Ørsted conditionally selects Siemens Gamesa to supply 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 and 242 MW Gode Wind 3 offshore wind power plants in the German North Sea • SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbine to be employed featuring rotor with 200-meter diameter and new B97 blades • Approx 1.2 million German households to be […]
