Global power industry tenders: Solar technology up 25% in August 2020

Solar technology tenders activity in August 2020 saw 131 tenders announced, marking a rise of 25% over the last 12-month average of 105, according to GlobalData’s power industry tenders database. Looking at global power tenders activity divided by the type of technology, solar held the second position in terms of number of tenders during August […]
JAPAN DEMANDS HIGHER STANDARD OF RESOURCE DATA TO SUSTAIN SOLAR MARKET GROWTH – SOLARGIS

Reliance on publicly available solar datasets may hold back development and operation of profitable solar projects in Japan Solargis sees growing demand for high-resolution, validated solar data from international and domestic developers Japan, 23rd September – Japanese solar developers and operators need to invest further in high quality resource and forecasting data in order to […]
Power Roll closes £2.8m funding round to commercialise a new way to generate and store energy

Sunderland, UK 23 September 2020 – Power Roll, the developer of ultra-low-cost and lightweight flexible film for energy generation and storage, confirmed today that it has raised £2.8m of investment to commercialise its unique solar film and capacitor technologies. The investment comprises £2.0m of equity and £0.8m of convertible loans as part of the Future […]
Delta’s Virtual Tradeshow – the Easy Way to View New String PV Inverters and e-Mobility Solutions

Delta has been participating at Intersolar for many years, as it is an ideal platform to present its latest solar and e-mobility solutions. Although this year’s exhibition was cancelled, Delta is still keen to engage with the delegates that would have attended, to offer them the opportunity to see its latest products. In order to […]
Sharp launches new 440W half-cut cell PV panel NU-JD440

Hamburg, 22nd September 2020 – Sharp today announces the addition of a new 440W monocrystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) panel to its half-cut cell portfolio. Available today, the NU-JD440 has a module efficiency of 19.9% and uses 144 M6 wafer size half cells. This decreases the balance-of-system costs per watt-peak installed across the whole BOS component […]
South Korea’s Green New Deal to create sustainable ecosystem with offshore wind and solar PV playing pivotal roles, says GlobalData

South Korea, one of the top CO2 emitting countries in the world, proposed a ‘Green New Deal’ to help accelerate the country’s transition towards the creation of a sustainable ecosystem by attaining net-zero emissions by 2050 and mitigate the risk of climate crisis. The deal affirms South Korea’s desire to make big advancements in the […]
MKM Invest Group und Prime Capital schließen Mezzanine-Finanzierung für länderübergreifendes PV Portfolio mit 579 MW ab

MKM Invest Group (“Sponsor”), a Hamburg based independent power producer, raised a EUR 106m mezzanine debt financing for a portfolio of solar PV projects in Germany, France, and Spain with a total capacity of 579 MW (“Portfolio”) based on contracted and merchant revenues. The financing was provided by accounts managed by Prime Capital AG (“Prime […]
Tigo Enhanced aims to increase customers’ confidence in selecting an MLPE device, while ensuring a reliable and cost-effective solution.

September 17, 2020, Campbell CA – Tigo Energy, Inc. has launched a joint marketing program, called Tigo Enhanced, in conjunction with its major inverter partners to make it even easier for customers to choose Tigo’s reliable module level power electronics (MLPE) for their solar PV projects. Under the program, inverter partners that use Tigo technology will include a Tigo Enhanced logo on their specification sheets and product marketing material. […]
A great success: The first online edition of EU PVSEC reports a huge positive outcome

An abundance of topics Sessions available for streaming Lisbon 2021 The topics and discussions of the 37th edition of the European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition have shown once again that a sustainable energy supply is becoming ever more important. New challenges lie ahead of us, but with initiatives like the Green Deal, there […]
Next generation back-contact solar modules in pre-production in Eurolab

Bleskensgraaf, the Netherlands, 17 September 2020 – Since the very first start of Eurotron, we have been on the forefront with state-of-the-art production equipment for manufacturing back-contact solar modules. Today, we are noticing an increasing demand for back-contact solar modules. We are excited to be involved in many initiatives and share our knowledge and long-term […]