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Selling solar to homeowners is an even playing field. Of course there are some advantages to those with more cash in the bank or purchasing volume but nonetheless a small company can compete with the biggest installer. In the world of virtual power plants, contracts with utilities, that changes. This was the quote from Sunrun CEO, Lynn Jurich, on the earnings call yesterday, “We have the contract with the utility for grid services which gives us a customer acquisition edge.” To their credit and that of utilities, it is still early in this newly created market. COVID’s Impact In Q2. At Home Microgrid. East & West Coast Acquisition.
Bill Walton Comes Back. Out of Many, You Benefit. Opinion Grist: Is the carbon tax dead? Best, Yann. The PV world ten years ago – summer series part II. Pv magazine editor Pilar Sánchez Molina recalls news from the PV sector of ten years ago as part of a new series.
The insights offered will not only bring back memories for the pioneers of that exciting, challenging period but may also offer an idea of where we could be in 2030. Challenging plans to deploy PV on dikes. Dutch researchers are trying to determine whether large-scale PV projects can be deployed on flood-control dikes across the Netherlands.
A 5 MW solar project has already been built on a dike near Groningen, but the researchers believe there is potential to build up to 2.9 GW of PV on such embankments. August 6, 2020Emiliano Bellini The Dutch authorities are struggling to identify surfaces on which to deploy large-scale PV plants due to the limited availability of land. In recent years, research institutes and private companies across the densely populated country have tried to prove the feasibility of solar projects on surfaces that do not damage agricultural land, including rooftops, road noise barriers, onshore and offshore water surfaces, and bike lanes.
First Solar posts strong Q2, sells O&M unit to NovaSource. Another stalwart of the solar industry was able to take the necessary precautions in order to maintain a sense of normalcy during the pandemic, leading to a quarter of increased sales, net cash, and a positive outlook to finish off the year.
August 7, 2020Tim Sylvia First Solar's manufacturing facility in Lake Township, Ohio Image: First Solar From pv magazine USA Solar earnings season is in full swing and, just as SunPower did yesterday, First Solar has now given a full look at how the company dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. France’s EnerGaïa, Italy’s Key Energy to be held in fall, Australia’s All-Energy 2020 canceled. France’s EnerGaïa Forum will be held Dec. 9-10 in Montpellier, while Italy’s Key Energy event will be held in Rimini from Nov. 3-6.
Australia’s top PV industry event will not take place in 2020. August 7, 2020Catherine Rollet, Emiliano Bellini and Jonathan Gifford. Solar tile with passive cooling. Researchers built the device by attaching 17%-efficient monocrystalline PV cells to a mortar roof tile that was doped with a phase-change material (PCM).
The PCM solar tile provided 4.1% more power than the PV tile with no cooling agent in the winter, and 2.2% to 4.3% more during the summer. August 7, 2020Emiliano Bellini Image: Western Sydney University Researchers from Australia’s Western Sydney University have created a solar tile that includes phase-change materials (PCM) with a cooling function. They built the device by attaching 12.5 × 12.5 mm monocrystalline solar cells to a mortar roof tile that was doped with the PCM. To avoid leakage issues, they created a form-stable PCM by encapsulating methyl stearate (MeSA), which is often used as an antifoaming agent and fermentation nutrient, into diatomite, which is a very fine-grained siliceous sedimentary rock used as a filtration medium. Silver price rally won’t affect PV industry. Silver prices reached their highest levels this week since 2016.
But Michael DiRienzo, executive director of The Silver Institute, says prices are still not high enough to complicate silver supplies for the PV industry. August 7, 2020Emiliano Bellini A silver bar Image: Armin Kübelbeck/Wikimedia Commons Silver prices jumped by $3.77 per kg to $28.04 per kg from Aug. 4 to Aug. 6. These high price levels are mainly due to inflation fears, low interest rates. and the recognition of silver’s role as a valued investment, according to Michael DiRienzo, executive director at The Silver Institute. The PV world 10 years ago – Summer Series Part III. Pv magazine editor Pilar Sánchez Molina takes a look at PV sector news from 10 years ago as part of an ongoing series.
These insights bring back memories of an exciting, challenging period, while pointing to where we might be in 2030. August 7, 2020Pilar Sánchez Molina Global The prospects for the international PV market were very positive in 2010, with significant growth anticipated. According to a statement published by iSuppli before Intersolar Europe 2010, the world was set for annual growth of around 13.5 GW.Italy, the United States, and Japan were on their way to becoming gigawatt markets. Large PV markets were also forming in France, China, Spain, Belgium and the Canadian province of Ontario. However, Germany retained the leading position. Chinese PV Industry Brief: Polysilicon, module prices continue to rise.
Polysilicon prices continued to soar this week.
Prices have been rising across the PV supply chain since mid-July due to recent accidents at two Chinese polysilicon factories, according to EnergyTrend. August 7, 2020Vincent Shaw and Emiliano Bellini EnergyTrend said this week that prices have been rising across the entire PV industry supply chain since the middle of July, after two separate incidents at factories owned by Daqo and GCL-Poly disrupted global supplies of polysilicon. Statistics from the Taiwanese market research firm show that supply issues have now spread to solar cell and panel production, in addition to the downstream business. Polysilicon prices continued to rise sharply this week. State Power Investment Corp. SolarEdge violated Huawei inverter patent, rules Chinese court. Huawei said the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court in China has ruled in its favor in a patent dispute with its Israeli rival.
August 7, 2020Emiliano Bellini Chinese inverter manufacturer Huawei said on Friday that the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court has ruled that SolarEdge has infringed on one of its patents for inverter products manufactured and exported by its Jabil Circuit (Guangzhou) Ltd. unit, along with two other subsidiaries in China. The decision is related to one of three infringement lawsuits that Huawei filed in Chinese courts against SolarEdge in May. The court has ordered SolarEdge to “immediately stop the infringing activities” and pay RMB10 million ($1.4 million) to Huawei, the company said.
Thin-film amorphous silicon greenhouses begin to sprout. Researchers have matched the tinting of semi-transparent PV modules with the bandwidth of light that plants absorb for photosynthesis. A promising trial with basil and spinach has opened up economic opportunities for farmers. August 7, 2020Marian Willuhn. The weekend read: Europe ramps up policy support for storage. The European Union and national governments are beginning to recognize that battery energy storage will play a key role in the expansion of solar PV and other renewables across Europe. Grid-scale batteries are still a niche technology, and the rollout of projects will have to accelerate much faster to fulfill its potential.
It is, therefore, a boost for the industry that more nations are removing regulatory barriers to allow a level playing field for storage to compete with power generators, for example in capacity auctions. Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Ireland have designed capacity markets whereby storage operators can bid for contracts in auctions. Jinko unveils new 610 W solar panels. Kstar launches 1,500 V string inverter. Four injured in ‘incident’ at Wacker’s US polysilicon factory. Consultants needed for West Africa Clean Energy Corridor. New method to calculate solar irradiation on rear side of bifacial panels. Researchers have announced a new technique that is a modified version of the isotropic diffuse model.
August 10, 2020Emiliano Bellini A group of researchers from Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (METU) and Gumushane University have developed a new way to calculate the solar irradiation on the rear side of bifacial solar modules. The scientists said that the technique can be applied to any kind of PV project or site conditions, without the need for high computational power. They presented their findings in “Solar irradiation on the rear surface of bifacial solar modules: a modeling approach,” which was recently published in Scientific Reports. The new technique is a modified version of the isotropic diffuse model, which is also known as the Liu and Jordan model. They started to modify the model by treating the rear side as the front side. The second modification involved altering the ratio of beam irradiation on the rear side of the bifacial panels.
Emiliano Bellini. The PV world 10 years ago – Summer Series Part IV. One of United States’ first solar PPAs BlueChip Energy began installation of the first stage of the 10 MW Rinehart Solar Plant in Central Florida, which it defined in its statement as “one of the largest privately owned solar plants in the country.” The project, located in Lake Mary, was built in stages, starting with a 120 kW total rooftop plant featuring 520 230W monocrystalline panels and two 60 kW Fronius inverters. The second and third stages added 500 kW and 1.4 MW respectively, and finally an 8 MW ground-mounted plant. BlueChip has entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply Progress Energy Florida with power. “We hope that the Rinehart Solar plant will serve as a model in the state of Florida for more large-scale alternative energy projects,” said Lawrence Hefler, a company spokesman.
India’s NTPC 1.2 GW solar auction sees aggressive tariff of INR 2.43/kWh. Digital prospecting and selling tools for rooftop PV. Nearmap presents the suburbs as a mosaic of solar panelled roofs, beside bare residential and commercial rooftop potential, swimming pools just soaking up energy and canopies of trees leaning in. A darling of the Australian Stock Exchange, the tech company’s regularly updated digitised aerial mapping — using vertical, oblique, 3D and AI enhanced imagery — of populated areas in Australia and the US, could prove the greatest boon to rooftop PV solar sellers in the time of COVID-19 and beyond. At Nearmap’s virtual Navig8 2020 event last week, it showcased its latest capabilities and partnerships.
Nearmap CEO Dr Rob Newman directly addressed solar designers, an important sector of the company’s customer base, saying that the company’s digitally delivered, high-res imagery of the lay of the solar landscape, will “profoundly change the way you work”. He expanded: “By reducing site visits, we’re taking cars off the road. Digital prospecting and selling tools for rooftop PV. Innovative community solar in the United States. A 497 kW project on five roofs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., uses SREC sales to provide $1.50 in community benefits for every dollar of power generated. Hydrogen can be transported by rail, German railway company says. Texas approves 12 GW of solar projects in seven months. Canadian Solar plans new listing in China. Poland’s PV capacity reaches 2.26 GW. The country has deployed around 916 MW of new PV capacity in the first seven months of the year. August 10, 2020Emiliano Bellini.
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US utility invests in Australian prefab PV system manufacturer. Finnish industrial park gets 12 MW smart grid with central inverters. The weekend read: In pursuit of universal energy access. A step forward for single-crystal perovskites. Is Mexican utility CFE entering the solar business? Cadmium-free CIGS solar cell with 18% efficiency. A residential vanadium flow battery. Amorphous lithium discovery could lead to new high-performance batteries. Mobile, quick-install mounting system for medium and large scale projects.
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C&I rooftop solar set to surge in India. Another solar module factory in North Africa. Bosch, IBC Solar combine smart heating production with PV. Portugal’s hydrogen call attracts €16bn of proposed investments. ET Solar unveils new 525/545 W bifacial module series. Chinese PV Industry Brief: New PV capacity exceeds 10 GW in H1. German customs bureau launches another probe into illegal PV module imports. The weekend read: Making solar sizzle. SunPower to launch 625 W shingled module. Residential storage solution with LG Chem battery, SolarEdge inverter. EU maintains anti-subsidy duties on solar glass from China. World’s lowest bid of $0.0135/kWh wins in Abu Dhabi’s 2 GW solar tender. Exclusive interview – Jinko Power on how it offered the world’s lowest solar power price. Australia adopts international standards to shape hydrogen future. Indian power company tenders to acquire 1 GW of already-built solar projects.
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