Student activism leads Boston school to adopt solar
The Planet Protectors club at the Winsor School, an all-girls college prep day school, successfully launched a project that will cover one third of the school’s energy needs and is estimated to save the school over $1 million during the project’s life.
Texas solar is booming, but batteries are not included
In the next three years, Texas is expected to deploy 50% more solar capacity than California, but projects are attaching batteries at about 28%, while in California, nearly 99% of solar projects have batteries included.
Solar plus storage microgrid spares remote Alaskan community on diesel expenses, boosts resilience
Shungnak, Alaska is expected to save $200,000 a year and reduce its reliance on dirty fuel.
Survey finds Commerce’s anti-circumvention case cuts Biden’s solar goal in half
In a survey of solar project developers, the American Clean Power Association found that 47% of the 81 GW needed to be deployed in 2022-2023 to achieve national clean energy and climate goals is impacted by the Department of Commerce’s actions.
Canadian university to be equipped with a stealthy solar façade/microgrid
Building-integrated photovoltaics provider Mitrex said its system will provide St. Mary’s University student residence with a power-producing microgrid.
iSun posts 115% revenue growth in full year 2021 financial results
The solar and electric mobility infrastructure developer had a “milestone year.”
Duke Energy Florida launches utility-owned “community” solar program
Participants will subscribe to a share of the utility’s solar production without having to install panels on their roof.
Speeding perovskite solar cell development with machine learning
MIT and Stanford researchers are employing artificial intelligence to test perovskites in pursuit of a commercially viable PV cell manufacturing process.
MIT backed start-up develops polymer-based batteries for stationary storage
The device is based on a standard, two-electrode electrochemical cell containing conductive polymers, a carbon-graphene hybrid, and a non-flammable liquid electrolyte. The battery cells were tested to perform for 12,000 cycles at 100% depth of discharge.
Green hydrogen electrolyzer provider closes $45 million Series B
Ohmium International secured funding that is expected to quadruple the manufacturing output of its modular PEM electrolyzers.
