UK-based solar developer Lightsource bp said today it has brought online its 188-MW Honeysuckle solar project in St Joseph County, Indiana.

Lightsource bp switches on 188-MW Indiana solar farm to supply Google

UK-based solar developer Lightsource bp said today it has brought online its 188-MW Honeysuckle solar project in St Joseph County, Indiana.

Lightsource bp has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google for the solar park’s electricity, following the tech group’s announcement of a USD-2-billion (EUR 1.8bn) data centre campus in Fort Wayne.

“We have an ambitious goal to operate every Google campus on clean electricity every hour of every day by 2030, which will include our Fort Wayne data center once it comes online,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, Google’s global head of data centre energy.

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Source: Renewables Now

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Tesco Supermarket will buy almost two-thirds of the energy generated by the new £450m Cleve Hill solar park in Kent

Tesco signs deal to buy enough solar energy to power 144 large stores

Tesco has struck a deal to buy enough solar power to run 144 of its large supermarkets, buying almost two-thirds of the entire electricity output from the Cleve Hill solar park in Kent.

The £450m solar park is being built on farmland near Faversham by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a London-based firm that invests in renewable and low-carbon energy in the US, UK and Australia.

The site will provide Tesco with up to 10% of its UK electricity demand over 15 years. Tesco said the amount of clean energy generated would be enough to power 144 of its large stores for a year.

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Source: The Guardian

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To triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, $1.5 trillion annually is needed; solar PV is the only tech on track for this investment.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) is the only technology on track to meet 2030 investment targets

The world will need to invest US$1.5 trillion per year until the end of the decade to meet the target of tripling global installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, as agreed upon at the COP28 summit, and solar PV is the only clean energy technology currently on track to receive the level of investment necessary to hit this goal.

These are the headline takeaways from ‘Delivering on the UAE Consensus’, the first in a series of annual reports published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA), COP28, COP29 and COP30 host Brazil. The report finds that the world added 473GW of new renewable power capacity in 2023, of which solar accounted for 346.9GW.

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Source: Reve

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Researchers at Oxford are developing ultra-thin, portable solar panels from perovskites, cheaper and more efficient than silicon-based panels

Revolutionary’ portable solar panels being developed

Portable solar panels, which could be used on-the-go to charge devices, are being developed by university researchers.

At the National Thin-Film Cluster Facility (NTCF) for Advanced Functional Materials in Oxford, scientists are creating ultra-thin solar panels from perovskites.

According to researchers, perovskite solar panels are cheaper and more effective than those made purely from silicon and can be produced at a smaller size.

Prof Henry Snaith, from the University of Oxford’s physics department, said the new technology will “basically mean you’re going to be able to generate power in more places”.

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Source: BBC

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Two weeks after Hurricane Helene, volunteers are providing solar power to hard-hit areas in NC, helping those affected by the storm.

Volunteers bring solar power to North Carolina communities still lacking electricity after Hurricane Helene

Two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the southeastern United States, killing hundreds of people across multiple states and knocking out electricity for millions, volunteers are bringing solar power to hard-hit areas in North Carolina.

Helene made landfall Sept. 26 as a powerful Category 4 storm, causing disastrous flooding and landslides that destroyed neighborhoods and left at least 225 dead in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. North Carolina’s death toll accounted for around half of all of the victims as the hurricane brought several days of severe, torrential rainfall to the western part of the state. Around 1.5 million electricity customers in that region lost power during the storm, and many remain without it in Helene’s aftermath.

For Bobby Renfro, the constant din of a gas-powered generator is getting to be too much.

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Source: CBS News

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CAISO hit a record battery discharge of 8.3 GW on October 9, with 177 GW in the energy storage queue and 1.9 GW expected by year-end.

California installs 10 GW of utility-scale batteries

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which manages about 80% of California’s electricity, has connected 10.219 GW of utility-scale energy storage to its managed power grid as of the first day of October this year.

The data was released as part of the ISO’s Key Statistics report for September 2024. The 10.2 GW value was a 0.9 GW increase from August’s 9.3 GW on the grid, and a greater than 3 GW jump from the 7.1 GW that was connected as of the state of 2024.

In the month following energy storage capacity records being set, there are now battery use records being set. According to Gridstatus.io’s record page, CAISO has set multiple battery charge and discharge records in the six days prior to this article being written.

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Source: PV Magazine

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Amazon is focusing on wind and solar for green power in Asia, unlike other tech firms exploring nuclear energy for data centers.

Amazon prefers renewables in Asia as nuclear still elusive

Amazon.com Inc. is currently only looking at wind and solar to offer green power for projects in Asia, even as global technology companies begin examining nuclear generation to supply energy-hungry data centers.

“We’re going where we can procure today, and that’s renewables” in the region, said Ken Haig, APAC regional head of energy and environmental policy at Amazon Web Services. “Is it possible to procure nuclear power in this part of the world? Not yet.”

This is in contrast to the US, where tech titans including Amazon and Microsoft Corp. are turning to nuclear energy to fuel their power-hungry data centers. The technology provides low-carbon electricity around the clock, a key benefit over intermittent wind and solar.

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Source: Bloomberg

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The IEA says renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity demand by 2030, with solar driving 80% of capacity growth.

IEA forecasts over 4,000 GW of new solar by 2030

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) is predicting over 4,000 GW of new solar will be added worldwide by the end of the decade.

The agency’s flagship report, “Renewables 2024,” says the world is set to add more than 5,500 GW of new renewables capacity between 2024 and 2030, to reach a cumulative capacity of almost 11,000 GW.

The prediction indicates solar will account for 80% of renewables growth over the 6-year period. Utility-scale solar will account for the majority of the solar expansion, but distributed applications, encompassing residential, commercial, industrial and off-grid projects, are expected to make up almost 40% of new solar.

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Source: PV Magazine

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Researchers from China have designed a novel building-integrated photovoltaics system that integrates a layer of PCM on each side of the wall

Building-integrated photovoltaic system integrating PCM on sides

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Researchers from China have designed a novel building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) system that integrates a layer of phase change material (PCM) on each side of the wall.

Dubbed double-PCM BIPV composite envelope (BIPV-dPCM), the new system was experimentally validated via a numerical model and was compared to reference systems. Per the results, it achieved superior thermoelectric coupling performance compared to all of the other systems.

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Source: PV Magazine

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Vertical solar panels are proving to be a new solution for northern regions, yielding 20 per cent more energy than traditional panels.

Norway’s national football stadium has the world’s largest vertical solar roof

Norway’s national football stadium carries a lesser-known star attraction: 1,242 solar panels stretching across the roof.

These are not traditional flat roof panels. The mini, square-shaped solar panels have two key features that distinguish them from those typically seen on buildings: they are bifacial, meaning they have two active sides, and they are installed vertically.

In June 2024, Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo became home to the world’s largest vertical solar panel installation on a roof, placing the stadium at the forefront of renewable energy innovation.

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Source: Euro News

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