Solar recycling headquarters and research lab opens in Arizona
Backed by funding from leading corporations and institutions, Solarcycle sets up shop in Mesa, Arizona, to advance a circular economy for the solar industry.
Sunrise brief: Utility opposition stymies Fair Access to Community Solar Act in Washington
Also on the rise: Array Technologies announces dual-row solar tracker upgrade. Solar EV developer Aptera crowdfunds $33 million. And more.
Transportation department testing dual-use solar snow fence
Pairing electricity production with snow drift barriers to protect roads is being evaluated by the Minnesota department of Transportation.
How to combine residential heat pumps with PV, battery storage
New research from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has shown that combining rooftop PV systems with battery storage and heat pumps can improve heat pump efficiency while reducing reliance on grid electricity.
Organic cathode for high-energy, fast-charging lithium-ion batteries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a new organic cathode material with an energy density higher than most cobalt-based cathodes. It can charge–discharge in as little as six minutes. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent for the technology.
Fraunhofer ISE, Oxford PV produce 25%-efficient perovskite-silicon tandem PV module
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) announced today that it had produced at 421 W perovskite-silicon tandem glass-glass module measures 1.68 m2.
Canadian startup offers 35%-efficient indoor perovskite PV modules
Canada’s Solaires Enterprises says its indoor perovskite modules are suitable for powering a range of electronic devices, such as wireless keyboards, smart door locks, electronic shelf labels, and sensors.
PV commissioning times up by 6 months over past 20 years, claim scientists
Scientists in Switzerland used project-level data from BloombergNEF to analyze completion times of renewable energy projects across 48 countries. They have found that average commissioning times have increased over the past two decades for all clean energy technologies.
Sunrun solar-plus-storage powers the grid during peak demand
In partnership with utility Pacific Gas and Electric, the residential solar installer enrolled distributed batteries to serve the grid during times of peak demand.
A retirement boom for fossil fuels
Since early 2003, the United States has retired the same amount of fossil fueled electricity generation capacity as it has installed, even while the size of the economy has grown by two thirds.
