Electrochemistry

Floating solar panels have the potential to give a huge boost to Türkiye's installed electricity capacity, according to a top official from the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry.

The Ministry of Environment and Energy on Thursday finalized the guide for the 'Photovoltaics on the Roof' program.

The platform for applications will open in April and the beneficiaries of the program are households and farmers able to install a small photovoltaic system combined with a battery.

SolarPower Europe's aim to achieve a new record in the installation of photovoltaic electricity production units in 2023, after the 2022 highs, Aristotelis Chantavas, the president of the organization said in a message for the new year.

The Development Ministry and the European Investment Bank on Thursday signed a new ELENA contract for technical assistance to improve energy efficiency in public buildings and other facilities such as schools, hospitals, sports venues and administrative buildings all over Greece.

The long-awaited Ministerial Decision was published a few days ago in the Government Gazette, paving the way for the start of applications from small investors for photovoltaic parks up to 400 kW in Peloponnese, Crete and the Cyclades. These are areas in which, until recently, the electrical grids were considered saturated and could not… pick up any more current.

The Secretary General of Energy and Mineral Resources, Alexandra Sdoukou, referred to the priority of upgrading ports to energy hubs with the promotion of the use of RES and especially photovoltaics, participating in a working meeting on "Energy upgrading of ports through electrification" organized by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with the participation of the Hellenic Elec

Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Science in partnership with colleagues from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski "have created a new generation battery that will revolutionize the storage of energy.

Photovoltaic units installed in Greece generated three times more power last year than a year earlier, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Tuesday, citing the Hellenic Association of Photovoltaic Companies.
The report said that new photovoltaic power units installed in 2018 had a total capacity of 41.1 megawatts compared to 12.9 MW in 2017 and 5.4 MW in 2016.

Sofia. Inercom Bulgaria has submitted a new notification on the CEZ deal to the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) after a restructuring that the company said was a response to all concerns about concentration stated by the antitrust regulator.

The results of the first tenders by the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) for new renewable energy source projects - based on the offer of more competitive prices - have come as a shock to the local market.

The domestic players appear unprepared for the entry of foreign investors who offer considerably lower and clearly more competitive rates.