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New RE Already Cheaper Than Operating Coal Plants: Report
A brand-new report has revealed that brand-new renewable energy (RE) is currently more affordable than remaining to run coal plants in much of the world.
Jul 10, 2020 // Market Research, Sierra Club, Market research, rocky mountain institute, Renewable Energy, Carbon Tracker Initiative, Cheaper Than Coal, RE, RE Cheaper Than Coal
ADB, IEA Renew Collaborative Agreement on Energy Sector Sustainability
ADB has actually renewed an MOU with IEA to scale up partnership and also breakthrough development on sustainability with an increased focus on power industry durability in APAC The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revealed that it has restored a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to scale up collaboration as well as breakthrough development on sustainability with a raised concentrate on power field strength in Asia as well as the Pacific.
Jul 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, ADB, IEA, ADB IEA Energy Sector, Energy sector, sustainability, Masatsugu Asakawa
Ørsted Acquires 227 MW Under Construction Solar Plant in the US
Ørsted is broadening its solar footprint with the procurement of the 227 MW a/c unfinished Muscle Shoals solar project found in Alabama, US.
Jul 10, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, International, Solar Project, Orsted, Vishal Kapadia, Neil O’Donovan
Hitachi ABB Power Grids India wins Rs 120-crore order
The business has landed an order from state-run Chittaranjan Locomotive Works to supply transformers for products and guest locomotive engines.
Jul 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India, N. Venu
Jacobs Awarded Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Contract in Malaysia
Jacobs was selected by Hanwha Energy Corporation to provide owner's engineer services to sustain the style, engineering, procurement, construction, installment, screening and also appointing of a new 100 megawatt rotating current (MWac) solar photovoltaic nuclear power plant in Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia.
Jul 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Malaysia, Asia, Hanwha Energy Corporation, PV Power Plant, Jacobs, Patrick Hill
Photo-rechargeable zinc-ion devices merge solar cell and also battery technology
Researchers have made a battery that can be straight butted in sunlight without needing an outside photovoltaic panel. Clever design of the battery electrodes assists in photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries that could locate applications as affordable tools for off-grid solar ranches.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, Michael De Volder, Serena Corr, Yi-Chun Lu, zinc-ion batteries
UK has 18GW pipe of 'shovel-ready' storage and also renewables
The UK has a "huge" 61GW pipe of environment-friendly electricity projects with 18GW considered 'shovel-ready' according to new analysis from Regen.
Jul 9, 2020 // Large-Scale, Storage, UK, Europe, Regen, Merlin Hyman
Bluefield invites new investment supervisor as it targets a varied portfolio
UK capitalist Bluefield Solar Income Fund has actually welcomed a brand-new elderly hire, with Baiju Devani joining Bluefield Partners from Ingenious.
Jul 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Bluefield Solar Income Fund, James Armstron
Elgin companions METKA EGN for 76MW of subsidy-free solar
Elgin Energy has partnered METKA EGN to progress 76MW of solar to energisation.
Jul 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, Metka EGN, Elgin Energy, Nikos Papapetro, Ronan Kilduff
Tender Issued for 25 MW Canal Top Solar Plants in Karnataka
SSCL has tendered for setting up 25 MW solar plants on the Upper Tanga Canal Stretches passing through the Shivamogga City in Karnataka on DBFOT Basis.
Jul 9, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, tender, Asia, solar plants, karnataka, Canal Top, MESCOM, SSCL
Capital Dynamics continues United States flurry with 4.8 GW strategic collaboration with IPP Tenaska
Asset management firm Capital Dynamics has struck a calculated partnership with Nebraskan independent power producer Tenaska to advance 4.8 GW of solar in the Midwest and Southeast United States.
Jul 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Capital Dynamics, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, investment, finance, North America, Benoit Allehaut, Tenaska, miso, serc
PV mini-grid to back Congolese farming
Equatorial Power and SustainSolar are mounting containerized, off-grid solar battery power systems to support farming projects on an island in Lake Kivu.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, DR Congo, Equatorial Power, SustainSolar, Abishek Bharadwaj, John Fadiran
Enel joins the Indian solar gold rush
The Italian utility, fresh from safeguarding its initial 300 MW of PV generation capability in the nation in a current, record-setting tender, has actually partnered with the state-owned Norwegian Investment Fund to devote to additional clean energy facilities in India.
Jul 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Italy, India, Enel, SECI, tender, Europe, Asia, Antonio Cammisecra, Solarpack, Norway
BP dedicates $70m to UK-India Green Growth Fund
The fossil fuel company will certainly end up being a companion in the fund, which buys clean energy projects.
Jul 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, bp, Dev Sanyal, Dhanpal Jhaveri, Sashi Mukundan, GGEF
US sodium-ion battery programmer raises $35M as storage space financial investment surges
Start-up Natron Energy is constructing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and also a sodium-ion electrolyte. Capitalists include ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Chevron, Khosla Ventures, and also Prelude Ventures.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Chevron, startup, Form Energy, QuantumScape, Natron Energy, ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Khosla Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Colin Wessells, Eos Energy Storage, Quidnet