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Octopus grabs 175MW Spanish solar portfolio
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has conditionally gotten a 175MW photovoltaic solar profile under growth in southern Spain.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, Octopus, María Pilar
Engie activates French PV plant
12MW installation has been designed to be largely obscured by trees as well as mix into the landscape
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, France, Engie, Europe, PV Power Plant
Canadian pension fund clinches Spanish solar procurement
Canada-based institutional capitalist Caisse de depot et positioning du Quebec (CDPQ) has shut the procurement of a 216MW solar profile located in a number of Spanish areas.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Canada, Spain, Europe, North America, Q-Energy, CDPQ, Maria Pilar Garcia Guijarro
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says the expense per megawatt to build solar plants is listed below nonrenewable fuel sources worldwide for the very first time. Public success tales like Elon Musk's solar as well as wind battery farm in Australia have actually helped move public view. All 4 IEA situations consist of a mix of renewables in addition to nuclear and the globe's continuing to be nonrenewable fuel source plants.
Oct 22, 2020 // Market Research, USA, India, Elon Musk, China, Europe, Asia, North America, International Energy Agency
Solar Industry Awaits Clarity on ALMM Extension and Implementation
The due date for executing the accepted checklist of versions and manufacturers (ALMM) has actually passed, and also the sector is still in limbo. There's no update yet on the new due date as the previous due date of September 30, 2020, has passed. The sector is additionally waiting for quality on the implementation procedure as the pandemic will be affecting guidelines mandating assessment of centers in India and also outside.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, solar cells, solar modules, mnre, ALMM, BIS
Avangrid to acquire United States power holding business PNM Resources
Iberdrola via its US-based utility firm Avangrid has revealed the purchase of New Mexico's energy holding firm PNM Resources.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Iberdrola, North America, avangrid, Ignacio Galán
Australian electrical energy demand rolls in Q3 as country accepts rooftop solar
Australia's roof PV boom incorporated with modifications in power usage because of COVID-19 drove electrical power demand to record lows in 3 states throughout Q3.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Rooftop PV, Market Research, Australia, AEMO, rooftop PV, Oceania, covid-19, Audrey Zibelman
Tesla affordable solar strategy paying dividends as installs rebound
Tesla has said its technique to deliver the lowest-cost solar rooftop installments in the US is settling after it saw an increasing of installs in Q3 2020.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, TESLA, ENERGY STORAGE, Elon Musk, North America, Solar Rooftop
Schneider Electric Solar Expands Its Energy Management Ecosystem with New Smart Edge Devices
Schneider Electric Solar introduced InsightHome as well as InsightFacility, their most recent additions to the Insight Energy Management community. Both InsightHome as well as InsightFacility are wise edge gadgets that link clients' Schneider Electric solar and storage space systems to the Insight app. InsightHome targets the residential solar as well as storage space market worldwide. InsightFacility is for huge domestic and commercial solar and storage systems.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, Residential, Storage, Bernhard Kiechl, Digital technologies, Schneider Electric Solar
New research reveals UNITED STATE solar installments raised 3,000% in one decade
In 2019, the United States produced 30-times a lot more solar energy and also greater than triple the amount of wind energy than it performed in 2010, according to a brand-new report from Environment America Research & Policy Center. The project, "Renewables increasing 2020," records the growth of five vital clean energy modern technologies throughout the past decade: solar energy, wind power, battery storage, power performance and electric cars.
Oct 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, USA, North America, Susan Rakov, Emma Searson
NIPSCO wraps up plans for 900 MW of new Indiana solar energy
North Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource, revealed that it will certainly bring an added 900 MW of solar power to Indiana with the Dunns Bridge I, Dunns Bridge II as well as Cavalry Solar Energy Centers as part of the firm's long-term generation approach.
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, nipsco, Mike Hooper, NextEra Energy Resources, Kendell Culp
Australian outback cattle terminal to house world's biggest solar farm, powering Singapore
Electrical power from $20bn farm on 10,000 sq km residential property in Newcastle Waters also prepared to feed Northern Territory's power grid
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Northern Territory, Australia, Asia, Oceania, Singapore, Sun Cable, David Griffin
EDF proceeds solar push with 49.9 MW website prepared
EDF Renewables is seeking to develop a 49.9 MW solar farm at Tye Lane near Bramford.
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, EDF, Mark Vyvyan-Robinson
Ecotricity signs deal to buy ROCs from UK solar portfolio
Energy vendor Ecotricity has actually authorized a long-term agreement to supply and acquire Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) from a UK solar portfolio.
Oct 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UK, PPA, Europe, Sam Dickerson, Renewable Obligation Certificates, Jonathan Hick
Solar modern technology meets tradition on a Monson family members farm
SunBug Solar, a Massachusetts-based solar options supplier, has completed the building of a dual-use solar-terra solar system in Monson, Massachusetts. The style of the system enables the regional landowner to gather both sunlight from above and crops from listed below on land which has been in the family for 3 generations.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, Plants, USA, Massachusetts, North America, solar projects, SunBug Solar, Nate Tassinari