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Korea Firm OCI To Build 2 GW Cell Manufacturing Plant In US

Korean chemical industries company OCI Holdings will build a 2GW solar cell production facility in Texas. The Korean firm had closed 2024 with revenues of almost $2.5 billion. With a strong presence in photovoltaic polysilicon manufacturing including plants in Malaysia, the firm is hopeful that its own polysilicon supply chain will provide it a competitive […]

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Researchers Build Photo-Assisted Zn-Ion Storage To Boost ESS Capacity

Researchers from the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), have developed a photo-assisted self-chargeable energy storage device. CeNS is an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in Bengaluru, India developed this devise to enhance the charge storage capacity in the presence of light. It can charge by its own […]

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Chennai Offers Ideal Access To Southern RE Market: Julian Thomas

1. How Informa Markets is planning to boost the growth of the renewable industry through the upcoming RenewX event in Chennai? RenewX Expo has played a significant role in driving the renewable energy industry forward, especially in South India. From 2015 onwards, RenewX Expo is making all possible attempts to support government policy, manufacturers, developers, […]

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Battery Storage Era: 5 Reasons BESS Is Supercharging the RE Revolution

Among many things, 2024 will probably remain a marker for the momentum it built up for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). So sharp has been the pick up here that even countries like the UK which had special focus on Pumped Hydro Storage (PSP) have changed rules in recent weeks to allow BESS projects to […]

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Fraunhofer ISE Flags ‘Overstatement’ Of Output Claims By Module Manufacturers

A research team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has evaluated over 70,000 power measurements on photovoltaic modules that have been carried out in the institute’s calibration laboratory, CalLab PV Modules, since 2012. In the process, the researchers found that since around 2017, the negative discrepancy between the performance data of the […]

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Vietnam’s Threat To Go Back On Tariff PPA’s Sends Chills Through Developers

Vietnam’s decision to retroactively revise subsidised pricing rules for wind and solar energy has raised concerns among stakeholders in the industry, especially foreign investors. The move comes after Vietnam blew past its renewable addition targets between 2020-23 on the back of a generous Feed In tariff mechanism that made projects much more lucrative in the […]

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Hoymiles Micro-Inverters Make an Impression at the REV Expo, Chandigarh

Chinese solar inverter firm Hoymiles, a global leader in Solar Microinverter and Energy Storage Solutions, made a strong impression at the Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicles (REV) Expo in Chandigarh from March 7th to 9th. Partnering with its Authorized Distributor, Sun Solista, it had showcased its latest innovations in microinverters and smart solar technology to […]

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Tandem PV Raises $50m To Take Perovskite Based Technology Commercial

US based Tandem PV, which has focused research on perovskite based solar technology, has announced that it has secured $50 million in Series A funding and debt, led by Eclipse, with participation from Constellation Energy, Planetary Technologies, Uncorrelated Ventures, Trellis Climate, Tom Werner (former CEO of SunPower), Stifel Bank, CSC Leasing, and other existing and […]

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India’s Surge In Tendered Capacity Of RE Projects faces Multiple Risks

India’s two consecutive years of record renewable energy tendering capacity has placed the country on a record capacity addition trajectory. With tenders equaling 73 GW  in 2024 versus 58 GW in 2023, the numbers have surpassed even the central government’s own targets of 50 GW per year. These are among some of the findings of […]

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