Solar Markets & Finance News

Terabase Energy lands US$ 6m funding round to supply ultra-cheap solar
Solar start-up Terabase Energy has closed a US$ 6 million Series A financing round, revealing an objective to help drive down solar generation expenses to listed below US$ 0.01/ kWh by 2025.
Sep 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, SunPower, soft costs, Start-up, terabase energy, sjf ventures
France desires 6.5 GW of hydrogen capability by 2030
Government ministers Barbara Pompili and also Bruno Le Maire today revealed a national technique for carbon-free hydrogen to the French Association for hydrogen and fuel cells and also various other significant players in the state's hydrogen economic climate.
Sep 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Solar to Fuel, France, Europe, hydrogen, Barbara Pompili, Bruno Le Maire
Panama to hold October renewables public auction
Picked projects will certainly safeguard five-year power acquisition contracts as well as will need to begin business procedure on January 1.
Sep 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, auction, North America, panama, covid-19
Gambia looks for consultants for 150 MW solar-plus-storage project
The global West African Power Pool is seeking professionals for an environmental impact research in addition to transaction advisors for a project under development considering that October.
Sep 10, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, solar-plus-storage, Africa, Gambia, PV Power Plant
Aiko Solar profits struggle with solar cell cost decreases but profits up 30% in H1 2020
Significant merchant solar cell producer Aiko Solar might have increased initially half year revenue 30% compared to the prior year duration, but COVID-19 and solar cell typical cost declines, caused by weak demand, sent out internet profits falling by 68% year-on-year.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, c-si manufacturing, solar cell, monocrystalline wafer, PERC, aiko solar, covid-19
Ecuador kicks-off 60 MW solar tender
The government is seeking proposals for 200 MW of renewable energy capacity including two 30 MW solar parks to be built in either Santa Elena or Guaya provinces.
Sep 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Ecuador, tender, South america
Solar is essential to develop the France of 2030
KilowattSol CEO Xavier Daval has actually criticized the absence of references to solar in the French government's post-Covid recuperation strategy, which has designated EUR30 billion to the power shift. The head of the PV technical advisory states solar must become a lot more main to France's critical choices as well as China must not be enabled to preserve its near-monopoly on PV panel manufacturing.
Sep 9, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, France, Europe, Xavier Daval, covid-19
Bhutan launches ground-mounted PV tender
The nationwide utility has kicked off a procurement round to construct the country's very first significant PV project.
Sep 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, tender, Asia, Bhutan
Cuba increasing solar capability with economic help from ADFD
Cuba has recently broadened a 10-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant to 15 MW of overall capacity with the help of funding from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD).
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, North America, Cuba, ADFD
Bulgaria's Gradus-1 invests in 999.74 kWp solar park
Bulgarian chicken producer Gradus [BUL: GR6] said on Tuesday that its wholly-owned unit Gradus-1 has spent 1 million levs ($603,000/ 511,000 euro) in the building and construction of a 999.74 kWp solar park at its farm in Stara Zagora.
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Bulgaria, Solar Park, Gradus
Asia Pacific renewables might draw in US$ 1tn of financial investments this decade-- WoodMac
Solar and also wind power stand for a US$ 1 trillion financial investment possibility in Asia Pacific this years, equivalent to two-thirds of the area's total power generation industry, as countries move far from fossil fuel generation in favour of greener choices.
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Wood Mackenzie, Australia, Oceania, Asia Pacific, natural gas, Alex Whitworth
Performance-Based Financial Mechanism for MNRE's CST Scheme: GERMI
A new research has actually discovered that MNRE's off-grid and decentralised CST system must have a performance-based financial backing system
Sep 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Thermal, mnre, CST Scheme, GERMI, off grid
Canada's Kruger markets 523 MW people solar projects to Ecoplexus
The renewables arm of Canadian tissue products maker Kruger Inc has actually unloaded a 523-MW mid-stage solar advancement portfolio in the US to local firm Ecoplexus Inc
Sep 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, Kruger, Ecoplexus
France backs green hydrogen as part of EUR30bn green power package
Nearly a third of France's EUR100 billion (US$ 118.2 billion) coronavirus recuperation bundle will certainly be routed towards greener energy policies, as the nation increases expense on hydrogen manufacturing.
Sep 7, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Solar to Fuel, France, Europe, hydrogen, green hydrogen, covid-19, Enerplan, Jean Castex, Daniel Bour
UK's Foresight Solar makes initial Spanish financial investment adhering to Shell deal
UK solar investor Foresight Solar Fund has actually concurred a EUR20 million offer to get a 26.1 MW solar project in Spain, the firm's initial in the country and its first ever subsidy-free solar financial investment.
Sep 7, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, UK, Europe, Foresight Solar Fund, foresight group, shell, Alek Ohlsson