Solar Energy
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Solar should be at heart of EU recovery
Solarpower Europe has called on member states to put solar and battery storage front and center when it comes to drawing up the Recovery and Resilience plans needed to secure a slice of the bloc’s proposed €672.5 billion post-Covid...
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EU grants German-Danish offshore wind connection capacity exemption
A power cable connecting offshore wind farms in both Denmark and Germany has been exempted from European Union rules reserving a minimum capacity for traders, grid operators Energinet and 50Hertz said.
Power cables connecting two countries in the 27-member bloc...
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U.S. solar group pushing Biden to end tariffs, extend subsidies
The U.S. solar industry on Tuesday laid out a list of policies it says could be enacted early next year as President-elect Joe Biden works to deliver on his pledge to ramp fire up clean energy development to create...
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Scientists in Korea Develop Novel Eco-friendly Buffer for Solar Panels
Solar power is an eco-friendly alternative to conventional, non-renewable sources of energy. However, current solar panels require the use of toxic materials as buffers, which is not sustainable. To this end, a team of scientists in Korea, at the...
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EU plans to increase offshore windfarm capacity by 250%
The capacity of the EU’s offshore windfarms in the North Sea, the Baltic, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea will be increased by 250%, under a draft plan drawn up by the European commission.
The move follows Boris...
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UK commissions research into space-based solar power stations
The UK Government has announced the commissioning of new research into space-based solar power (SBSP) systems, which would collect energy in space using large solar satellites.
The system will convert the collected solar energy into high-frequency radio waves and beam...
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Nucor to purchase solar energy from EDF Renewables North America
US-based steel products manufacturer Nucor has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) for 250MWac of solar energy in Texas for 15 years.
Nucor selected the project through a competitive request for proposal (RFP)...
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