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Lockheed Martin to provide flow battery for 103 MW Alberta solar + storage project

The Saddlebrook Solar + Storage Project will be a 102.5 MW installation, paired with 6.5 MW/52 MWh of Lockheed Martin’s GridStar Flow battery technology, and will be the largest flow battery energy storage facility in Alberta.

Shoring up the solar industry’s resilience to cyberattack

As solar and storage technologies are deployed on the grid in record numbers, there’s no time like the present to take steps to prevent solar and storage from being vulnerable to cyberattack.

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MIT and Google develop solar cell simulator

The differential physics-based software simulates how the change in a given input can change the cell’s power output, potentially paving the way for faster improvements in PV efficiency.

Alabama students study outdoors in off-grid solar pods

In a partnership with startup SolarFi, the University of Alabama has deployed outdoor solar-powered study “pods”.

Autonomous robot for concentrated solar power installation and maintenance

Heliogen announced the roll-out of its robots to install and clean its CSP plants.

Icephobic surfaces for ice, snow shedding in utility scale solar

Developed by U.S. researchers, the proposed coating solution is claimed to effectively melt ice and snow with temperatures of up to -35 degrees Celsius. It was fabricated by using medium-chain triglyceride oil to plasticize two common industrial polymer polyvinyl chlorides and tested at a pilot facility in Alaska.

NASA to test solar-powered propulsion for asteroid defense

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will employ roll-out solar arrays and an electric propulsion system to redirect Earthbound asteroids.

Your next package delivery could be solar powered

There is still much to debate over the benefits of moving a vehicle via solar, but the market has been getting creative and is evolving quickly.

Discovery boosts perovskite solar cell efficiency by up to 18%

Researchers said they achieved a new benchmark for 2D perovskite efficiency by discovering an effect whereby sunlight causes the material to contract, enabling greater efficiency.

Sunrise brief: Canadian Solar funds growth plans via stock sale

Also on the rise: UK scientists probe perovskite cell structures to better understand how they work, and the International Trade Commission says that Section 201 tariffs should be extended.

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