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ACEN bags 1.1 GW of solar awards in Aussie tender
ACEN Corporation (PSE: ACEN), the power platform of Philippine conglomerate Ayala Group, today confirmed solar project awards totalling 1,120 MW in a renewable energy tender in New South Wales.
May 2, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, tender, new south wales, ACEN, Ayala Group
India's Navitas Solar to add 1.2 GW of module production capacity
Indian solar module maker Navitas Green Solutions Pvt Ltd, likewise called Navitas Solar, has increased USD 5 million (EUR 4.5 m) to support its plan to expand its production capacity to 1.7 GW, it said on Friday.
May 2, 2023 // Manufacturing News, India, Asia, solar module, Navitas Solar
Japan's Kao, Mizuho ink solar VPPA tied to 15.6-MW project
Japan's Kao Corp and Mizuho Leasing Co Ltd (TYO:8425) on Friday announced the finalizing of a solar virtual power purchase agreement (PPA) in between the two companies.
May 2, 2023 // Plants, Japan, Asia, Mizuho, Kao, solar VPPA
Dubai commissions further 200 MW of flagship solar project
Dubai Electricity and also Water Authority (DEWA) has actually connected to the grid a more 200 MW of the 5th phase of the 5-GW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park ahead of schedule.
May 2, 2023 // Plants, Grids, Dubai, Solar Project
SPI Energy to spend USD 66m on solar gigafactory in S Carolina
US renewable resource team SPI Energy Co Ltd (NASDAQ: SPI) has committed to spending USD 65.9 million (EUR 60.2 m) in a project that will increase its solar wafer as well as module production in South Carolina, according to growing demand for US-made products.
May 2, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, SPI Energy, S Carolina
German solar power manufacturing down substantially in Q1
Renewable resources added 47.1 percent to Germany's gross electricity generation in the first quarter of this year, 2 percent factors greater than in the same duration last year (45.1 percent).
May 2, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Germany, Europe
Trina Solar asserts greater than 50 percent market share for modules with 210 mm cells
Chinese solar company Trina Solar Co. Ltd. stated it had actually reached the 140 gigawatt (GW) mark in cumulative solar module production by the end of March. According to the report, the firm, which was founded in 1997, produced around 30 percent of this amount-- 43.1 GW-- last year alone.
May 2, 2023 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Trina Solar, solar module
China Activates Giant Solar Energy Plant Established In The Desert
China has achieved yet one more milestone in its quest for renewable resource domination, appointing its first solar energy plant in arid regions, located in the Tengger Desert. The center, which is the second largest solar energy plant in the world, aims to get to a complete solar capacity of 3 GW as well as stands for an important step towards the nation's commitment to ending up being carbon neutral by 2060.
May 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, China, Asia, PV Power Plant
Vietnamese Company Launches Solar Power Project In Cuba
The Thai Binh Investment as well as Trading Corporation of Vietnam released two projects in Cuba. These included a laundry detergent plant and also a solar power park.
May 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, North America, Cuba, solar power project, Vietnamese Company
On-site solar project powers every one of Stanley Black & Decker's Kentucky factory
Stanley Black & Decker in partnership with Castillo Engineering and RPG Energy Group unveiled a 4.3-MW solar farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Covering virtually 15 acres, the solar area generates enough clean energy to power Stanley Black & Decker's 280,000 sq. ft on-site production facility while likewise supplying excess energy back to the state.
May 2, 2023 // Plants, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Stanley Black & Decker
New inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite subcells that are both efficient and stable
All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions developed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving greater efficiencies than conventional single-junction solar cells. Up until now, nevertheless, a lot of proposed all-perovskite tandem cells have actually not achieved the preferred power conversion performances (PCEs), usually because of difficulties associated with developing ideal narrow- and wide-bandgap subcells.
May 2, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, Hairen Tan, Nanjing University, University of Toronto
Boralex commissions 2nd French battery
Energy storage plant is set up on the site of the Plouguin wind farm in Brittany
May 2, 2023 // Storage, France, Europe, Boralex
Ethical Power turns sod on UK solar farm
45MW project in Herefordshire results from be commissioned in 2024
May 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, solar farm, Ethical Power
NSW Announces 1.4 GW Renewables' Tender, RWE To Create Battery Storage Project
The 1.4 GW renewables tender allocation anticipates an investment of about A$ 2.5 billion in the state. RWE has been granted with 50 MW/ 400 MWh Limondale battery energy storage project.
May 2, 2023 // Storage, Australia, tender, Oceania, new south wales, BESS, rwe, Katja Wünschel, Limondale battery energy storage system, LTESAs
GUS Technology Opens Taiwan's First Battery Gigafactory
The overall investment in the general construction of the Jhongli gigafactory has reached NT$ 4 billion. GUS Technology also joins hands with global companions to produce a lithium battery ecosystem; production expectred in third quarter of 2023.
May 2, 2023 // Storage, Taiwan, Beyonder, CC Chang, Echion Technologies, GUS Technology, Jhongli Industrial Park, lithium titanate, Midwest Energy, NCM material systems, NT$4 billion