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PSECC AND NATCORE
FROM PSECC'S WEBPAGE
Resource Ownership Concept
This is a concept that enables a Town, City or State become a part owner of each of our Solar Farms gaining a much needed additional revenue stream over a twenty year period.
The Resource Ownership concept is a simple one - each local Government take ownership of the Resource (the Sun) within it's boundary. Natcore & PSECC Solar Farms will form a link and possible partnership approach to owning, developing and possibly part funding each Solar Farm.
We have been pioneering solar farm developments in Africa since 2012. Our 20MW solar farm at Simbrofo in Ghana, we have submitted a FiT payment of $0.0886 per KWh and hope to get a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in place by the end of November 2017. A Provisional License was granted and issued on the 20th December 2016. PPA draft issued in November 2017 agreed upon late November and a Sovereign Guarantee (PCOA) requested from the Ministry of Finance in December 2017. Possible Build start date of January / February 2018 & operational October or November 2018.
It is this solar farm in Ghana that we hope to introduce the new Natcore solar cells and new solar panels production in Poland. The new cells will see an increase in power out-put by 10% or more, which off sets the lower FiT payments.
Does anyone know of anything that came out of the Sunshot program in Arizona? Natcore were on of the program partners.
PSECC in Ghanna........
http://simbrofo.com/services/
Who is taking up the PP and why?
Based on their performance it would seem to be throwing away money, unless , they actually have a contract coming soon that will generate revenue?
This is a stock sales pitch but their tech sounds for real
http://oilprice.com/er/video?utm_campaign=solar&utm_placement=vn
I think we might see some PR's from them or other companies working with solar crystal's perhaps even in September.
Natcore better hurry or their tech will be surpassed..
https://www.solaronix.com/news/solaronix-achieves-major-breakthrough-toward-perovskite-solar-cell-industrialization/
psecc site mentions a manufacturer in Poland.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/28/south-pacific-island-ditches-fossil-fuels-to-run-entirely-on-solar-power Natcore missed this one for The Best of Breed..
From AUSTRALIAN ENERGY WEEK 2016
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Scientists say proposed cuts could “wipe out” solar research in Australia
By Giles Parkinson on 27 May 2016
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Australia’s world-leading solar research scientists have called on both major political parties to re-assess their positions on the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, saying that the move to cut funding could “unintentionally kill” solar cell research in Australia.
Martin Green, from UNSW, and Andrew Blakers, from ANU, rated as the country’s two leading solar researchers, said Australia solar research could be lost overseas if the proposed funding cuts – by both the Coalition and Labor – became law.
The Coalition has proposed to remove $1.3 billion of unspent funds from ARENA and revoke its ability to issue grants Labor says it will reserve $300 million of funding for large scale solar thermal projects and community energy, but will then cut the remaining $1 billion of grant funding.
Green and Blakers say this could be disastrous for solar cell and other research in Australia, and the two major parties do not appear to understand what they are doing.
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“I don’t think this is a deliberate attempt to wipe out research into photovoltaics in this country – it’s more a case that the implications have slipped below the radar – but that’s what could happen,” said Green, (pictured) a pioneer of solar cells who has led the field for much of his 40 years at UNSW.
“Continuity in funding is essential in solar cell research, so if you lose your funding for even a year or so, a lot of your expertise disappears as teams are disbanded. Our researchers would find employment overseas very easily, and we’d lose that expertise.”
The two scientists also warned that “scores of early-career researchers stand to lose their jobs next year, leaving many PhD students in limbo and severely curtailing training and expertise in the renewable sector.”
This is not the first warning on the issue. A former ARENA chairman, Greg Bourne, said last month that the move to de-fund ARENA would cause much research and early-stage development to shift overseas, despite the Turnbull government’s mantras of “innovation” and “jobs and growth.”
Green and Blakers were among 62 leading researchers who have already protested against the move and written to government, and more another 130 more researchers and 61 undergraduate students wrote to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, making the same call.
Earlier this month Green, while announcing a massive leap in solar cell efficiency that could dramatically reduce the cost of solar, repeated that warning, releasing a report at the time saying that Australian solar cell research had delivered more than $8 billion in economic benefits to Australia in the past decade, Gains in efficiency alone, made possible by PERC cells, are forecast to save $750 million in Australia’s electricity generation over the next 10 years.
PERC cells were invented at UNSW by Blakers, Green and others and are now becoming the commercial standard globally, with sales of US$9 billion a year. But advances in photovoltaics continue, promising to deliver better efficiencies and ever cheaper cells.
“Australia has a tremendous track record of leadership in photovoltaics,” Blakers said.
“Severe curtailment of ARENA grants will cause loss of that leadership, loss of commercial opportunities, loss of hundreds of jobs, and severe downscaling of PhD and undergraduate student opportunities.”
Other significant research includes the the development of a new flexible solar cell for zero-energy buildings that is non-toxic and cheap to manufacture. At ANU, work on advanced materials and high efficiency tandem cell designs are showing great promise in further decreasing the costs of solar energy.
They noted that ARENA is the major funder for Australia’s solar researcher labs, and the move to de-fund it came as the world’s largest oil companies are sinking billions into electric battery storage systems and wind farms, and when a record US$286 billion was invested in renewables in the past year alone.
“It is important to continue and accelerate research and development spending to support the renewable energy revolution now under way,” said Blakers.
“Photovoltaics and wind energy are fundamentally reshaping the way economies of the world are powered, so it’s a critical time for Australia to stay in the game if it is to reap further benefits from its leading position in research and education.”
Recently, 130 more researchers and 61 undergraduate students wrote to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, making the same
How is it legal for Provini to sell at .67cents on Feb27th and announce a PP at .36cents on March 4th. Someone, PLEASE prove to me
that the insiders didn't know there was a PP coming today. I want to make 25 cents a share in a week like Chuck!!!!
I see they have issued 325,000 @45cents for consulting services yesterday. Which consultant??
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1204&MainCatID=12&id=20150816000163
Maybe Natcore can get a contract from one of the major china pv companies to improve their product quality?
Why do this agreement when they just did a PP,or, why do the PP when they had this agreement in the pipeline?
Some serious dilution happening here ?