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United States' 'biggest' floating solar farm completed in a glass of wine nation
What's asserted to be the United States' largest floating solar farm has actually been finished in the city of Healdsburg, California.
Mar 4, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, USA, floating PV, North America, california solar, noria energy, white peak, Evan Riley, Jon Wank, Terry Crowley
New United States Energy Secretary shakes up DOE, asks for 'numerous gigawatts' of brand-new tidy energy
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.
Mar 4, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, TESLA, North America, department of energy, biden, energy sectretary, Karen Skelton, Tarak Shah
Faster renewables authorizations as well as more powerful grids vital to environment-friendly hydrogen progress, coalition says
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.
Mar 4, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Solar to Fuel, EDP, Iberdrola, Enel, wacker chemie, hydrogen, Fronius, SolarPower Europe, baywa r.e., European Union, sma solar technology, green hydrogen, Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, windeurope
Tongwei Solar's Meishan solar cell production base becomes biggest on the planet
Major polysilicon as well as solar cell manufacturer Tongwei Team has begun ramping the final cell lines at its 15GW Meishen manufacturing hub in Sichuan Province, with the center currently the largest single site for solar manufacturing worldwide
Mar 4, 2021 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, solar cell, Tongwei Solar, solar upstream
Biden management supports Trump's elimination of bifacial tariff exemption
The Biden administration has upheld former United States Head of state Donald Trump's controversial choice to eliminate a tariff exception for bifacial solar panel imports.
Mar 4, 2021 // Tariffs, Policy, USA, Donald Trump, North America, Bifacial panels, bifacial solar, biden, Heather Zichal, manufacturing capacity, solar imports
Adapture Renewables buys 81-MWp solar project from Q CELLS
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.
Mar 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Q CELLS, Solar Project, Solar Park, Adapture Renewables, JK Jaekyu Lee
Copel turns on 3-MWp solar system in Brazil
Brazilian power energy Copel (BVMF: CPLE6) has taken into operations the first three units, totalling 3-MWp, of its Bandeirantes solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in the North area of Parana state.
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, Brazil, Copel, solar system
Iberdrola prepares 3 even more Spanish solar projects totalling 450MW
Iberdrola is proceeding with initiatives to establish three solar farms in Spain's Valencia region that will certainly have an integrated capability of 450MW and require a financial investment of more than EUR235 million (US$ 284 million).
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, PV Power Plant, utility, largescaleeu, sfi con london
JLEN snaps up 50MW Scottish battery
Acquisition of Gigabox South Road consists of rights to create the West Gourdie project
Mar 3, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, SCOTLAND, JLEN, Richard Morse
Capital Dynamics finishes 50MW Spanish solar buy
Puerto Real 2 project will come online in the initial quarter of next year
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Capital Dynamics, Spain, Europe, WElink Group, Dario Bertagna
Tata Power to Develop 15 MW Solar Plant in Jharkhand for Tata Steel
Tata Power has revealed that TP Saurya Limited has actually signed a PPA with Tata Steel Limited (TSL) to establish a 15 MW solar project in Jharkhand.
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, tata power, Praveer Sinha, PV Power Plant, Jharkhand, Tata Steel
China can set up PV systems up to 75 GW up until completion of 2021
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.
Mar 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, China, AECEA, Asia
Nextracker to supply devices for 830 MW PV plant in Brazil
Nextracker Inc. has actually been picked by Brazilian EPC company Andrade Gutierrez and designer Elera Renováveis (previously Brookfield Energia Renovável) to supply 830 MW of its solar tracker innovation, NX Horizon for Phase I of the Janaúba solar complex situated near the city of Janaúba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, South america, Brazil, tracker, Nextracker, minas gerais, PV Power Plant
Solar energy tire manufacturing at Bridgestone manufacturing facility in South Carolina
Bridgestone Americas, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese Bridgestone Corporation, revealed its initial ground solar array giving power straight to the manufacturing procedure. The brand-new 2 MW PV plant is located at the business's Aiken County, Passenger/Light Truck Tire Plant in Graniteville, South Carolina.
Mar 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, USA, North America, South Carolina, PV Power Plant, Paolo Ferrari, Bridgestone factory
Swissolar estimates enhancement of approximately 460 MW of PV in 2020
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.
Mar 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Switzerland, Swissolar, David Stickelberger