London, UK, 11 December 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — The Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), funded by the UK Government’s International Climate Finance, has invested £1 million into a renewables-powered battery rental company that provides affordable energy access to off-grid communities in West Africa.
Kaunas, Lithuania, Dec. 9, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) – With clients successfully using the first version of PVcase software in over 50 countries, the company is pleased to announce the public release of PVcase 2.0 which now includes shading analysis and civil design tools. Solar engineers can adjust table layouts based on different shading scenarios to optimize system economics and address key challenges of the civil design early on in the project.
NOTTINGHAM, UK, Dec. 7, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Nottingham-based startup Cheesecake Energy Ltd (CEL) and Via East Midlands (Via) who are wholly owned by Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) today announced a trailblazing partnership to install and test CEL’s cutting-edge energy storage technology for the charging of electric vehicles at Via’s Bilsthorpe highways depot.
Prague, Czech Republic, Dec. 3, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Leadvent Group announces the Solar PV Digitalization Forum, a virtual conference to discuss the market opportunity of digital solar, digital innovation and technological challenges for the industry, including how machine learning, digital twin and predictive analytics can enable monitoring and prediction failures to help drastically improve availability and reliability of the solar assets, increase revenue and reduce O&M costs.
London, UK, Dec. 3, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Invest In Network in partnership with Trina Solar announce the Energy Talks series webinar entitled Central Asia: solar PV growth opportunities and the latest solutions, dedicated to exploring growth opportunities and the latest solutions in the region, which will be joined by experts representing the Solar Power Association of Qazaqstan, Unicase law firm, FMO, Sungrow, and Trina Solar.
Singapore, 30 November 2020 (Solar Business Hub) – Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG), in partnership with Canopy Power, is developing and constructing a solar and battery energy storage hybrid microgrid to deliver clean energy and power remote island Koh Rong Sanloem in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Construction has started, and the project is expected to be completed in April 2021.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 30 November 2020 (Solar Business Hub) – Array Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY) (“Array”) today announced it has entered into an agreement to supply 1GW of DuraTrack® HZ v3 single-axis solar trackers to RP Construction Services, Inc. (“RPCS”). RPCS provides design-build services for small and medium-sized ground-mounted solar energy projects across the U.S. and is the leading contractor for solar energy projects under 25 MWs.
West Sussex, UK, Nov.24, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Sunstore Solar, a leading solar energy specialist in the UK, announces the arrival of a new brand of off-grid solar power systems called WattGrid. A fully self-contained solar power unit that can be delivered, connected and be generating sustainable energy within hours.
Kansas, Nov.17, 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Using the sixth cooperative principle of cooperation among cooperatives, twelve cooperatives in Kansas are joining together to make a small investment for the next 25 years or more in the harvesting of sunshine.
The UK government has commissioned new research into space-based solar power (SBSP) systems that would use very large solar power satellites to collect solar energy, convert it into high-frequency radio waves, and safely beam it back to ground-based receivers connected to the electrical power grid.
London, U.K., 11 November 2020 (Solar Business Hub) — Camco Clean Energy (Camco) has been approved as an accredited entity by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at the 27th Board meeting being held this week.
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, USA, October, 30 /Solar Business Hub/ – Namasté Solar and financial partner, Solaris Energy, were awarded up to ten megawatts (MW) of solar installations by Colorado State University (CSU). This project, likely doubling the campus’s solar energy production, shows significant action toward CSU’s commitment to 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and complete carbon neutrality by 2050.
