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Florida Power & Light Announces Construction of Four Solar Power Plants for $40 Million in Savings

[ad_1]   Florida Power & Light (FPL) recently announced the start of construction on its four newest solar power plants. Today, FPL operates 14 major solar power plants and more than 200 smaller solar installations, totaling more than 935 megawatts of universal solar capacity currently powering customers. The four new plants, which are expected to […]

Materials “Sandwich” Breaks Barrier for Solar Cell Efficiency

[ad_1] Dr. Andre Taylor achieved remarkable effi ciency by introducing a squarine molecule (ASSQ) as a crystallizing agent, which both donates electrons and enhances the light absorption of the active layer of the cell, properly orienting the PBDB-T donor-acceptor polymer that accepts the donor electron with the non-fullerene electron-acceptor molecule ITIC. The National GEM Consortium […]

EDF signs new PPAs for wind & solar energy

[ad_1] EDF Renewables North America announced the signing of two Purchase and Sale Agreements (PSA) by which PGGM Infrastructure Fund will acquire a 50{0b7da518931e2dc7f5435818fa9adcc81ac764ac1dff918ce2cdfc05099e9974} ownership interest in the following projects: Glacier’s Edge Wind and Valentine Solar, with a combined capacity of 332 MW. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval and customary conditions precedent. EDF Renewables will […]

Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells enables efficiency improvements — ScienceDaily

[ad_1] Even solar cells made of a perfect miracle material would never be able to convert 100 {0b7da518931e2dc7f5435818fa9adcc81ac764ac1dff918ce2cdfc05099e9974} of sunlight to electrical energy. This is because the theoretical maximum achievable power is limited by the position of the energy bands of the electrons, and by unavoidable radiation of photons (the thermodynamic or Shockley-Queisser limit). Maximum […]

AgI–Ag2S heterostructures for photothermal conversion and solar energy harvesting

[ad_1] JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Available online 1 August 2018 Highlights • AgI–Ag2S heterostructures metallic nanoparticles were prepared for photothermal conversion investigation. • The AgI–Ag2S heterostructures show obviously enhanced photothermal properties in comparison to the corresponding AgI nanoparticles and Ag2S nanoparticles. • […]

McCarthy to build 53-MW solar project in Tennessee, with some land leased from U.S. Navy

[ad_1] McCarthy Building Companies has begun construction on the 53-MW Millington Solar Farm project in Millington, Tennessee, which represents a public-private partnership between Nashville-based renewable energy provider Silicon Ranch Corporation, the U.S. Navy, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) and the Millington Industrial Development Board (MIDB). The 402-acre utility-scale solar energy […]

Nashville’s first community solar park goes live

[ad_1] Photo: SayCheeeeeese / Wikipedia NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Madison is now home to Nashville’s first community solar park. Music City Solar went live in Madison on Wednesday, touting 17,020 photovoltaic solar panels which will power NES customers. The facility is expected to add 55 million kilowatt-hours of energy to the Nashville power grid through the array’s lifetime. […]

Small Business of the Month: Sphere Solar Energy

[ad_1] Sphere Solar Energy owner Edwin Ngugi Wanji stands in front of the solar panel system his company installed for Hellbent Brewing Company. Growing up in Kenya, Edwin Ngugi Wanji says he was the kind of kid who was always “trying to figure out how stuff works.” “A solar panel on my mom’s little calculator […]