Let’s get going! Time is wasting! It’s got to be done ASAP! << The US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) said in order to meet 2035 targets, solar deployment has to double in the next three years, and ultimately ramp up to 100 GW by 2035. >> https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/05/20/perovskite-solar-cell-technology-on-the-road-to-commercialization/
Posts Tagged ‘solar’:
2022-05-20 EIA: Solar, Wind To Be Larger Sources
US EIA expects solar and wind to be larger sources of US electricity generation this summer. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/19/eia-expects-solar-wind-to-be-larger-sources-of-u-s-electricity-generation-this-summer/
2022-05-18 Australia Generating Too Much Solar Power
Australia’s looming solar cliff https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2022/05/14/weekend-read-australias-looming-solar-cliff/
2022-04-28 Ginormous 20 GW Solar + Storage Project in NT, Australia
Sun Cable plans to build 17 to 20 gigawatt plus battery storage in Australia to power Singapore through undersea cable. $30 billion (Aus). To show how Ginormous this project is, divide 20 billion watts by 1000 watts, then multiply by 2.5 (400 watts per panel). So 20 million times 2.5 is FIFTY MILLION solar panels!!
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2022-03-31 Solar Tariffs 50% Or More!
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/29/solar-starts-strong-in-the-u-s-growing-40-year-over-year-in-january/ Comment on FB group (look at the bar graph) This article said “…Nearly 40% year-over-year.” That’s good but not good enough. That needs to be more than 100% year-over-year. The whole solar industry depends on the wafer fabrication facilities, which have grown but demand is still exceeding the supply. The US needs a large
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2022-03-28 Misinfo Derailing Wind, Solar Across US (NPR)
Misinformation, especially on Facebook and social media, is derailing renewable energy projects across the US. These fools are going to cause the planet to suffer greatly. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1086790531/renewable-energy-projects-wind-energy-solar-energy-climate-change-misinformation
2022-03-15 Calif Solar Is A Battery Market
California’s Solar market is a battery market. Interesting article. It says that battery storage is to be used as long term storage. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/14/californias-solar-market-is-now-a-battery-market/
2022-03-13 Solar Parks Could Increase Rainfall
Solar parks could help to increase rainfall in Saudi Peninsula. This is interesting – the darker solar arrays change the albedo or sunlight reflectivity. Maybe they’ll have to turn the solar parks into agrivoltaics and plant crops under the solar arrays. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/08/solar-parks-could-help-to-increase-rainfall-in-arid-regions/
2022-02-16 Solar Desalinator
This low-cost solar desalinator does not have salt build-up. Gives a link to downloadable .PDF research paper. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28457-8
2022-02-11 Project Links Solar Canopies, Irrigation Canals
This article shows the synergy between solar PV and the use of the canals as the location for solar canopies. They call it agrivoltaics but there is no agriculture or crops. The author said there are three benefits. But the author did not include the added benefit that the canal water keeps the solar panels
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