Monthly Archives: July 2020

Cooling mechanism to increase solar energy harvesting for self-powered outdoor sensors

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Sensors placed in the environment spend long periods of time outdoors through all weather conditions, and they must continuously power themselves in order to collect data. Many, like photovoltaic cells, use the sun to produce electricity, but powering outdoor sensors at night is a challenge. An illustration of thermoelectric devices using a wavelength-selective emitter and a broadband emitter. The device

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Solarcentury to lead the field in a successful tender for sites in Chile

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Solarcentury has been awarded the right to develop three utility-scale solar farms for a total of 1.04 GWp (963 MWac) by the Ministry of National Assets of Chile. In the tender, 11 sites owned by the State of Chile were consented for the development of renewable energy projects, attracting interest from key renewables companies from around the world; of the

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BayWa r.e. to sell largest Floating-PV Park outside China

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The generator was built on an 18-hectare lake of a sandpit site at Zwolle. Now fully commissioned, it is the largest project of its kind outside of China and was constructed by BayWa r.e. and its Dutch subsidiary, GroenLeven. “The sale of Bomhofsplas, which was built in just seven weeks, represents another important step in the Netherlands’ energy transition. For

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JinkoSolar to Complete Supply Agreements Totaling 100MW with Blue Sun Group

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JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE:JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced  that they have confirmed orders totaling more than 100MW with specialist wholesale distributor Blue Sun Group, with the focus of the orders on JinkoSolar’s Cheetah Plus panels.  JinkoSolar Cheetah Plus is unique in the power class due to

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