Search



Solar power met 45% of demand on Caribbean island of St Eustatius last year
The Netherlands-administered Caribbean island last year saw almost half its power demand provided by a 4.1 MW solar-plus-storage plant, commissioned in late 2017. The facility generated 6.5 million kWh of the 14.3 million kWh of electricity consumed in the territory in 2018.
Oct 25, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Europe, solar-plus-storage, Netherlands, Caribbean
Q Energy Launches Europe's Largest Floating Solar Farm
Europe's largest floating solar farm is now in the works. Q Energy, along with Solutions 30 SE, Ciel & Terre Int., and Perpetum Energy, have announced plans to build a 74.3-MW floating solar farm in France's Haute-Marne region. Construction is set to begin soon, with 37,000 people set to benefit from the power produced.
Sep 20, 2023 // Plants, Floating PV, PV Power Plant, Q Energy
Endesa X finishes solar array for Balearic Islands govt
Endesa X, the energy services unit of Spanish utility Endesa SA (BME: ELE), has actually developed a 976-kWp self-consumption solar photovoltaic (PV) system in Spain in support of the Balearic Islands government.
Dec 5, 2022 // Plants, solar array, Endesa X
Spain creates 37% of power from renewables in Aug
Spain produced 37% of its electricity from renewable energy resources in August, Spanish grid operator Red Electrica de Espana (REE) claimed in the current price quotes report.
Sep 5, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe
NextEnergy Capital makes maiden India solar acquisition
Solar capitalist and possession owner NextEnergy Capital (NEC) has actually completed its first project procurement in India as it align a flurry of investments in Q3 2020.
Jul 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, India, Asia, nextenergy capital, Filinto Martins
SunSource Bags Floating Solar Plus Storage Project in Andaman
SunSource Energy will certainly create a 4 MW floating solar project in addition to a 2 MW storage space system in Andaman as well as Nicobar Islands which it has won in a SECI tender.
Nov 20, 2020 // Plants, India, Asia, solar projects, Adarsh Das, Kushagra Nandan, Andaman and Nicobar islands
Spain's renewables share falls to 53.7% in March
Renewable resource plants created 53.7% of Spain's power in March, down from 58.9% a month previously, according to the most recent quotes report launched today by Spanish grid driver Red Electrica de Espana (REE).
Apr 5, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe
Spain's renewables hit 50.7% share in May as solar PV breaks record
Renewables generated 50.7% of Spain's power in May, generating 10% more "green gigawatt-hours" contrasted to the very same period a year earlier, according to the most recent estimates launched Wednesday by Spanish grid driver Red Electrica de Espana (REE).
Jun 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe
Micro and Mini-Grids as a New-Era Innovation Systems
The new era of renewable energy starts in 2020. Its development is expected in 2021 and next years. One of the hot-topic systems is micro and mini-grids powered by RE resources. Solar energy is used as the main electricity source, so this type of generator started to be implemented more often throughout the world
Feb 24, 2021 // Grids, Africa, Microgrids, Peter Lilienthal
Hawaiian Electric seeks solar-plus-storage in following procurement round
US utility Hawaiian Electric is looking for proposals from resources consisting of solar-plus-storage as part of its newest "all-source" renewables procurement round.
Oct 21, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, solar-plus-storage, Hawaii, North America, rfp
Amazon briefly shuts down solar roofs in all US facilities due to fires
A fire burst out at an Amazon warehouse in Maryland in June 2021 because of an 'unspecified occasion including the solar panel system'
Sep 5, 2022 // Rooftop PV, USA, Amazon, North America
Initial evidence shows solar parks can cool down surrounding land
Scientists utilizing satellite modern technologies have found for the very first time that huge scale solar parks have a cooling effect on the land surrounding them.
Oct 6, 2021 // Technology, USA, China, Asia, North America, solar parks, Lancaster University, Alona Armstrong
South Korea to Develop Solar Energy Plant in Fiji
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) introduced Wednesday that it will certainly construct a solar energy plant in Fiji, an island country in the Pacific that is having problem with climate change.
Aug 12, 2021 // Plants, South Korea, Asia, Oceania, PV Power Plant, Fiji, KOICA
Maldives govt seeks feedback on suggested 20-MW solar project tender
The Maldives government and also the Asian Development Bank (ADB), acting as deal expert, are welcoming interested events to participate in market-sounding sessions in connection with a 20-MW solar project for which a request for proposals (RFP) ought to be introduced in the coming weeks.
Oct 10, 2022 // Plants, tender, Asia, Maldives, Solar Project
SEI facilitates the installation of 1.2 MW of solar in rural Colorado communities
Solar Energy International (SEI)’s technical consulting program for solar market development in rural communities, Solar Forward, has officially surpassed the 1-MW mark of new, installed solar across rural Colorado. The program has yielded 1.2 MW of installed solar to-date and numbers continue to climb.
Oct 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Colorado, North America, Solar Energy International, Mary Marshall