Solar Cell Optimization: Cutting Costs and Driving Performance

May 29, 2018

Over the past several years, DC optimizers have become an important technological ingredient in many residential, commercial and utility-scale solar designs. By utilizing modules integrated with this technology, system designers can reduce the power loss from shade obstructions, thus safeguarding systems against long-term module mismatch caused by uneven soiling or debris.

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Bright Planet Solar

Bright Planet Solar is dedicated to changing the way the solar industry works. It starts with our commitment to providing you with the best priced, highest quality, American made PV systems on the market, but it goes far beyond that As a social benefit corporation, our company has a fundamental mandate to consider the “triple bottom line” of people, planet, and profit. That means everything we do has a vested interest in supporting local communities, helping address issues of economic disparity, caring for the environment, and giving back to those in need.

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2023 Large-scale Renewable Energy Market Intelligence Report

whitePaper | July 4, 2023

This market intelligence report is written for foreign and local investors looking to invest directly in the South African renewable energy market. It highlights opportunities in the public and private large-scale renewable energy1 market in South Africa.

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Reforming Electricity Market Design: Integrating Renewables to decarbonize the Power Sector

whitePaper | October 24, 2022

There is an urgent need to rethink the structure of the European energy system. The current geopolitical situation across the continent, combined with high dependency on imported natural gas, growing electricity demand, and consequently, higher bills for households and businesses needs the immediate attention of policymakers.

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Reaching Net-Zero Carbon by 2040:Decarbonizing and Neutralizing the Use Phase of Connected Devices

whitePaper | May 20, 2022

As part of our Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon is working to measure, reduce, and neutralize the emissions across every part of our business. For Amazon Devices, we are integrating carbon reduction strategies across the life cycle of our devices, including materials and manufacturing, transportation, use, and end-of-life phases. This paper focuses on the use phase, which accounts for 10-15% of the overall carbon footprint of rechargeable battery-operated devices and 60-80% of the footprint of plugged-in devices. We believe this phase is an important area of focus, since consumer electronics will always require some amount of electricity to operate. As the world becomes more connected even beyond consumer electronics, we believe that connectivity in itself allows us to rethink how we approach use phase decarbonization for all connected devices.

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Biogenic CO2 from the biogas industry

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

This white paper explores the climate impact of biogenic CO2 use or storage, the main utilisation avenues and perspective markets opportunities. While detailing current CO2 requirements, the paper underlines current obstacles to and opportunities for the further take-up of BIO-CCS and Bio-CCU solutions, summarises best cases, and concludes with a set of policy recommendations to define a suitable legislative framework for the further deployment of BIO-CCUS solutions, necessary to meeting Europe’s mid-century climate neutrality target.

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Shipping’s Role in the global Energy Transition

whitePaper | November 5, 2022

This executive summary sets out the scale of the global energy transition needed to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals, the implications for the shipping sector, and actions which could be taken by national energy ministries and by the shipping sector to help deliver this transition.

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Why we need the European wind industry – and how to safeguard it

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

We’re in the midst of an unprecedented energy crisis, with soaring energy prices and faltering supply chains around the world. In Europe, we have failed to realize and mitigate our strong energy dependencies – and now, people and industries are suffering the consequences. We urgently need more wind capacity to protect our economies and our climate alike.

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Bright Planet Solar

Bright Planet Solar is dedicated to changing the way the solar industry works. It starts with our commitment to providing you with the best priced, highest quality, American made PV systems on the market, but it goes far beyond that As a social benefit corporation, our company has a fundamental mandate to consider the “triple bottom line” of people, planet, and profit. That means everything we do has a vested interest in supporting local communities, helping address issues of economic disparity, caring for the environment, and giving back to those in need.

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