Sunrise brief: World’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Also on the rise: Indiana’s largest solar power plant about to come online.
People on the move: SolarEdge, SEIA, Mitsubishi Power Americas, and more
Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy transition finance.
Organic solar cell gains counterintuitive efficiency boost from entropy
A research team at the University of Kansas found that organic semiconductors known as non-fullerene acceptors demonstrate a high solar cell efficiency due to a reversed heat flow.
Indiana’s largest solar power plant about to come online
Mammoth North Solar is a 400 MW agrivoltaic installation that is the first phase of Doral Renewables’ 1.3 GW solar complex.
REIT completes commercial-scale solar tax credit transfer
Solar developer Black Bear Energy said the real estate investment trust’s (REIT) transaction on the 556 kW portfolio is proof of concept that demand exists for credits of this size and risk profile.
With great (solar) power comes great responsibility
Consumer protection and transparency are the keys to reigniting industry growth. Josh Levine, vice president of marketing, EnergySage shares his perspective.
Researchers build 16%-efficient mini perovskite solar module resistant to UV light-induced degradation
A U.S. research team has built a 15 cm2 perovskite solar module with improved stability and efficiency thanks to a polymer hole transport layer that reportedly improves the panel stability and efficiency.
World’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Researchers at the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion have created a new sodium battery architecture with stable cycling for several hundred cycles, which could serve as a future direction to enable low-cost, high-energy-density and fast-charging batteries.
Sunrise brief: Tariffs may stall the growth of the U.S. solar industry
Also on the rise: Toledo Solar goes out of business. Hydrogen power plants feasible but inefficient. And more.
Louisiana allows firms to buy 500 more MW of renewable power
Louisiana’s large electricity customers will be allowed to purchase up to 500 MW of renewable power through a new type of agreement with renewable project owners.
