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The European Commission (EC) revealed on Thursday that the Modernisation Fund has paid out EUR 2.4 billion (USD 2.56 bn) to 31 projects in seven EU countries, consisting of for renewable electricity generation and grid modernisation.

Elera Renovaveis ​will provide 120 MWp of solar power to Rio de Janeiro's water and sewerage utility from the Janauba PV complex. With reliable technical, operational and maintenance services, the project will meet the energy needs of 1 million inhabitants.

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The UK government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has granted around ₤ 912,000 in funding to London-based Gravitricity, whose trademarked technology utilizes gravity to save energy, to make it possible for the firm to set up an energy storage space project in Northern England.

Odisha has kicked off five big-ticket projects—led by Hygenco’s 1.1-mtpa green-ammonia plant and Saatvik’s 4.8 GW cell/4 GW module fab—cementing Gopalpur as India’s next green-energy hub.

Spanish engineer Isigenere has actually established floating PV mounting structures based upon virgin high-density polyethylene as well as states the manufacturing process, which features plastic shot, can create around 1 MW of the product every 5 days.

DTEK Kyiv Region Grids in the six months of 2020 connected 297 home solar power plants to the networks, thus enhancing the variety of such plants in the region by 16.8%, to 2,082.

French renewable energy producer Akuo Energy said Friday it has secured a contract to construct in Tonga a power storage system with a capacity of 23.4 MWh/6 MW.

United States designer Sunpin Solar LLC has actually authorized a hedge contract covering monetary facets of its 70-MW/98-MWp Titan Solar 1 park in California's Imperial Region.

The most up to date solar tender in Germany has actually awarded contracts for simply over 1GW of PV projects, but experienced a minor uptick in prices contrasted to the previous round.

Indian state-owned power generator Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) has consented to set up a joint venture (JV) with Grid Corporation of Odisha to develop 3 GW of solar as well as hydropower projects in the Eastern Indian state of Odisha.

German copper producer as well as recycler Aurubis AG (ETR: NDA) has put forward plans to spend EUR 530 million (USD 560.5 m) in several projects, consisting of in a scheme to greater than double the capacity of its solar park in Bulgaria to 24 MW.

Fortum, a Finnish energy company, plans to build a 90-MW solar power plant in Sweden. The project, called Alvret, will cover 95 hectares of land and is estimated to take up to three years to complete. Construction will begin once the permit process is finished. An additional 80-MW solar project is planned for Virolahti, Finland.

Silfab Solar Inc. has signed an agreement with NorSun to purchase locally-made silicon wafers for its PV module production. This partnership will enable Silfab to strengthen its supply chain and provide more Western-produced wafers for its products. NorSun is currently raising funds for a 3Gw and 5GW production facility in the US.

Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have actually accomplished 29.15% effectiveness in a solar cell made from perovskite and also silicon. This worth was licensed by the CalLab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. It stands for a brand-new globe document for a tandem solar aspect, the KTU scientists stated.