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The United States will certainly require "thousands of gigawatts" of carbon-free energy set up within the following four years to fulfill its climate targets, brand-new Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm has stated.

EDP, Iberdrola and BayWa r.e. are among the signatories of a new charter that gets in touch with Europe to "accelerate and also enormously deploy" extra renewables capacity to support the continent's eco-friendly hydrogen ambitions.

Solar project developer and plant driver Adapture Renewables Inc has actually finalised the procurement of an 81-MWp solar park in Texas' Cooke County from an US subsidiary of South Oriental photovoltaics (PV) supplier Q CELLS.

Puerto Real 2 project will come online in the initial quarter of next year

China's National Energy Administration (NEA) released further data worrying last year's total solar PV market growth, says the consultancy Asia Europe Clean Energy (Solar) Advisory Co. Ltd. (AECEA). As necessary, the 48.2 GW deployed throughout 2020 are comprised by 32.7 GW of utility-scale systems, 10.1 GW of residential PV and 5.4 GW of commercial & industrial (C&I) PV systems.

New solar power systems with an ability of an approximated 430 to 460 MW were mounted in Switzerland last year. This represents a development of 30 to 39 percent contrasted to 2019, estimates Swissolar, the Swiss solar power trade organization.

RE2 Robotics has actually been chosen for $1.9 million in financing from the UNITED STATE Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to create a robotic system for the Outdoor Autonomous Manipulation of Photovoltaic Panels (O-AMPP).

Chicago-based energy company Exelon’s board of directors have agreed to separate its power generation business from its utility interests, creating two publicly-listed companies. Energy group EDF has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (PPA) for the second tranche of its Texas solar project with an affiliate of listed energy partnership group Enterprise Products partners.

Abu Dhabi-based renewables company Masdar has a "significant aspiration" to increase its tidy energy portfolio in Southeast Asia, a firm exec has actually told PV Tech.

Major China-based polysilicon manufacturer Daqo New Energy has signed a three-year high-purity polysilicon supply arrangement with Zhonghuan Semiconductor (TZS), completing 41,000 MT.

Spain needs to restrict the size of brand-new solar parks to motivate the deployment of smaller sized projects located better to consumers, the country's National Association of Photovoltaic Power Producers (ANPIER) has actually claimed.

Israeli robot photovoltaic panel cleaning business Ecoppia is laying the ground for worldwide growth and increased data capabilities following its recent going public (IPO) on the Tel Aviv stock market.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has actually acquired 100MWp of UK solar in a c. ₤ 64.3 million deal with Lightsource BP.

Elgin Energy is to progress a 210MW portfolio of subsidy-free solar complying with the closure of its very first fundraise with Focus Capital Partners.

Bank's renewables arm to at first obtain 55MW of area PV in New york city state from SMT Energy