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WEB5 days ago · Southern U.S. solar soars in August while Northeast falls behind. In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that August was an extraordinary month for solar energy production in the Southeastern states, while regions like the Midwest and Northeast experienced cloudier conditions and lower irradiance.
More than a view: Here are 3 solar energy-producing windows
WEBJun 22, 2021 · SolarGaps. U.S. and Ukraine-based SolarGaps views the concept from a different angle: rather than electrifying windows, it developed blinds integrated with photovoltaics. The blinds automatically track the sun, producing power and keeping the building cool. SolarGaps said its product can produce 100W per hour for every square …
Solar 101: Working the angles to maximize your solar system’s …
WEBApr 30, 2021 · This makes due south 180°, west 270° and east 90°. Returning to our completely average city of Normal, Illinois, we’ll keep the system’s roof angle at 40.5° for our calculations. As you can see in the table, the Normal house facing due South can generate 5,608 kWh. When facing due east, that value falls to 4,350 kWh, a 22% loss.
Another massive solar project is approved in Indiana
WEBJun 21, 2021 · Indiana regulators have approved for construction the 195 MW Hardy Hills Solar project, recently acquired by AES Indiana from developer Invenergy. The project is set to be constructed on nearly 1,800 acres in Clinton County, about 50 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Work is expected to begin this fall, with the project reaching commercial ...
Making perovskite solar PV circular from the start
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used a circular economy framework to determine how to scale, deploy, and design future metal halide perovskite solar panels to be easily recyclable. As initiatives to commercialize metal halide perovskite (MHP) solar technology are …
The world’s largest solar power stations – pv magazine USA
WEBAug 30, 2021 · From pv magazine Global. In 2019, the top five solar parks had a combined capacity of 6.6 GW AC. Fast forward to 2021, and today’s top five total over 12.5 GW AC. The intervening Covid-19 pandemic has clearly done little to slow the explosive global growth of utility-scale solar. In three blogs in the coming weeks, the top solar power …
Here’s what Biden’s infrastructure bill offers solar and cleantech
WEBMar 31, 2021 · Here’s what Biden’s infrastructure bill offers solar and cleantech. The $2 trillion package includes a proposed 10-year extension of the ITC and PTC and calls for further incentives to add transmission capacity. Most solar advocates liked it, but one nonprofit panned it as being too industry-friendly. The Biden administration revealed a $2 ...
A look at the great transformer shortage affecting U.S. utilities
WEBMar 7, 2024 · A look at the great transformer shortage affecting U.S. utilities. An NREL team finds that lead times for transformers has grown fourfold in three years, with orders sometimes taking two years. Additionally price increases of four to nine times have been reported in the past 3 years. March 7, 2024 Anne Fischer. Grids & Integration.
Solar antidumping tariffs back in the spotlight - pv magazine USA
WEBFrom pv magazine 6/24. AD/CVD tariffs for US-imported solar components from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia have been paused since 2022. Should they resume, tariffs of between 50% and 250% of the cost of shipped goods would apply to components from China that are found to have been dumped in the affected Southeast Asian nations …
Solar tower of power shows benefits of vertical installations
WEBMar 2, 2023 · Other key benefits of the Solar Tower demonstration are the space-saving impacts of the vertically-mounted array compared to ground-mounted systems, which require up to 6 acres of land to produce 1 MW of electricity. To provide the same amount of energy, the company’s tower configuration frees up 85% to 90% of the land use for other …