2021 is expected to have the highest PV installation capacity on record for many key markets, including China. In the last few months, PV module suppliers have been continuously increasing their prices for 2021.
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President Biden has pledged to make the United States a leader in clean energy manufacturing as part of his efforts to jump-start the economy and create "millions" of green jobs. However, achieving these goals presents many challenges.
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From severe weather events and rolling blackouts in California and Texas to powerful hurricanes in the Gulf region, the demand for reliable energy will only grow. Read this Climate Change Business Journal article on energy storage.
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Paul Wormser discusses everything from technology innovations in solar and storage, tariffs, forced labor prevention legislation, the Biden Administration, energy storage trends and green hydrogen, and much more.
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CEA Founder and CEO, Andy Klump, sits down with Jon Powers from the Experts Only Podcast to discuss how the solar supply chain has become more efficient and what the future of solar and storage look like in the US and overseas.
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2021 is expected to be a record-breaking year for storage, but with technological innovation accelerating, renewable energy asset owners need to carefully select safe and reliable systems to protect their storage investments.
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CEA Founder and CEO, Andy Klump, sits down again with Nico Johnson from Suncast to discuss his life, how he built Clean Energy Associates from the beginning, and what solar supply trends and risks to look for in 2021.
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During the largest nighttime onsite EL imaging test ever conducted, CEA inspected 180,000 PV modules of a 56MW solar project and helped the O&M build a case for the manufacturer to replace over 5,000 defective modules.
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S&P Global recently interviewed CEA’s Vice President of Technology, Paul Wormser, regarding President-elect Biden’s green agenda and the upcoming legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress that would ban goods made in China’s autonomous Xinjiang region where Washington alleges forced labor is being used.
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2020 introduced PV modules above 500 W as the new norm, offering the potential to lower LCOE, but also coming with risks. We also saw supply constraints for encapsulant, glass, and polysilicon which are likely to continue into early 2021.
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As energy storage looks to form the bedrock of the future electricity grid, great strides are made every day to develop smart, low-cost, sustainable distributed generation resources. Here are the trends to look for in 2021.
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From Covid and supply chain disruptions to the rapid adoption and growth of renewables and new technology, 2020 has left its impact unlike any others. 2021 will likely offer even more PV industry growth, despite some policy speed bumps and uncertainty.
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The latest report examines the commodity prices impacting solar and the upward pricing trends expected to continue well into 2021 - raising module prices.
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Hail is becoming a bigger financial risk for insurers, and they’re not covering all the damage. As glass gets thinner and storms get worse, solar asset owners need to take notice.
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Hail is becoming a bigger financial risk for insurers, and they are not covering all the damage. As glass gets thinner, solar asset owners need to take notice.
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Thermal runaway is always the big concern for lithium-ion batteries. Chris Wright discusses why the energetics of an LFP thermal runaway failure are much lower than that of in NCM or NCA.
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Chris Wright discusses gas detection systems and active ventilation in the face of a battery fire.
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LFP cost structure can better take advantage of economies of scale compared to NCM. The main cost contributors to a lithium ion battery cell are the cathode, the anode, the separator, and the electrolyte.
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As part of our SPI 2020 presentations, CEA's Chris Wright revealed two battery fire risk case studies involving cells and racking.
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