British solar PVT tech company Naked Energy has entered the US market. They partnered with ELM Companies to deploy its TÜV-certified solar heat tech to Graves Hall at Creighton University in Nebraska. 240 pieces of their solar heat collectors were installed on the rooftop of the new residence hall to heat water. The company claims that its solution reduces more than three times the greenhouse gases per square meter compared to traditional solar PV panels.
Georgia Tech researchers discovered an important new factor in perovskite solar cell stability: isolated water or oxygen exposure does not degrade cells, and it is rather the interplay of the molecules that cause rapid degradation. It is s good step towards solving degradation, that chronic issue with metal halide perovskite development.
Apparently, the first round of applications for the Dept. of the Treasury’s Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program pulled in interest from 8+ GW of renewable energy projects, four-times higher than the program’s available capacity. But then generous carveouts mean that there is still room for more to apply – at least 364 MW of capacity is still available in the ASC portion.
PV Mag chose 8 2023 award winners that range from module manufacture to project development. Winners include Risen Energy with its Hyper-ion, Solar Cooling Engineering with its PV Cool Kenya, Deye Technologies with its SUN-29.9-50K-SG01HP3, Origami Solar with its roll-formed recycled steel frame, ArcelorMittal with its XCarb and Magnelis, and others.
A California appeals court panel heard arguments last week in a lawsuit challenging the state’s NEM 3.0. The petition said the commission ignored a host of rooftop solar benefits and that for-profit utilities across the country are trying to gut rooftop solar programs because distributed energy resources, like rooftop solar, threaten the utility business model.
In this latest Solar Conversation, host Kerim Baran is back with Will Wiseman, the visionary Founder & CEO of Climatize. Kerim and Will discuss the services Climatize offers and how Climatize is making it easier for early stage developers and communities to invest in renewable energy projects. An early developer partner/customer of Climatize, Lawrence Chan, also joins this conversation and shares the successful outcomes of his partnership with Climatize. You can explore how Climatize is reshaping climate action and get a glimpse of their exciting future plans in this below video.
Solar Builder sat down with Wattmonk, a provider of turnkey engineering services, who is seeking to simplify the proposal and plan set to permitting and PTO so solar companies can more easily focus on sales and install. They offer super-fast turnaround times: plan sets in 3 hours, sales proposals in 45 minutes via something their CEO calls a “strip mall for solar engineering.” The video is below.