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Indian TERI creates platform for solar electricity trading
The Energy and Resources Institute announces a new platform for P2P transactions of green power among residential consumers sharing the neighborhood.
Jan 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, TERI, blockchain
PepsiCo Targeting 100% Renewable Electricity in the US
PepsiCo plans to achieve 100% renewable electricity for its US direct operations this year, covering nearly half of its total global electricity consumption
Jan 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, International, Pepsico, Renewable Electricity
How will China’s electricity price reform affect solar?
The nation’s plan for grid-parity solar – brought forward to ease a mounting public PV subsidy debt burden – could be left in ruins by a newly-announced scheme to part liberalize the electricity price, itself motivated by a need to bail out financially stricken state-owned power companies.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, China, Asia, China Central Television, NDRC, Song Jie Cao
Waaree Energies Powers up Pondicherry's First Solar Power Project
Waaree Energies has appointed a 10 MWp solar energy project in Pondicherry, the first as well as only solar plant in the city, up until now.
Mar 29, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, Solar Project, IREDA, Waaree Energies, Pondicherry, Viren Doshi
Tesla approved to provide retail electricity in Texas
Tesla will currently be able to market electricity to retail consumers in Texas after a request was approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
Nov 11, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Grids, USA, TESLA, Texas, North America, ERCOT
Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?
Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one.
Oct 16, 2019 // Solar, California, USA, storage, Sunrun, SunPower, Sunnova, John Berger, woodmac, North America, Tesla Powerwall, Bay Area, Todd Karin, Michelle Davis, Ravi Manghani, storage-plus-solar
Solar electricity is now CHEAPER than grid electricity in China — with one in five cities finding renewable energy lower cost than coal
Electricity produced from commercial and industrial solar energy systems is now cheaper in Chinese cities than that supplied by the national grid.
Aug 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Solar, China, Asia, Jinyue Yan, grid
PV cheaper than spot market electricity across Europe
The levelized cost of energy produced by large scale PV projects ranges from €24/MWh in southern Spain to €42/MWh in Finland. New research states that is already cheaper than the average spot market electricity price and that the figure for big facilities in southern Spain may fall to €14 in 2030 and €9 in 2050.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, Christian Breyer, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Department of Energy Announces $125.5 Million in New Financing for Solar Technologies
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $125.5 million in new funding to advance solar technology research. Through the Office of Energy
Feb 10, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Market Research, USA, North America, Dan Brouillette, doe, Mark W. Menezes, Daniel R Simmons
United state eco-friendly electricity exceeded coal in 2022
Electricity produced from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the United State Energy Information Administration revealed Monday.
Mar 28, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, coal
Kansai Electric Power and Power Ledger extend cooperation
Japan’s electric utility KEPCO prolongs a trial project with Australia’s peer-to-peer energy trading company Power Ledger. The project is meant for tracking RECs and ptp trading power generated by solar plants.
Dec 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Japan, Australia, Asia, Oceania, KEPCO, Power Ledger
2020 Annual Technology Baseline Electricity Data Now Available
Power analysts, modelers, and system organizers, the delay mores than: the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has actually released the 2020 update to its Annual Technology Baseline (ATB), an essential source of trusted electricity-generation technology expense and also performance information that can sustain and also educate electrical industry analysis in the United States.
Jul 17, 2020 // Market Research, USA, NREL, North America, doe, ATB, Laura Vimmerstedt
US electricity retailers are ditching fossil fuels
Three different retail electricity providers in the United States have announced new programs to provide customers the option to buy 100% renewably sourced electricity, with one of the three even coming at no additional cost.
Aug 23, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Portland General Electric, Appalachian Power, Gexa Energy out of Houston, Appalachian Power’s Wind Water & Sunlight
BP, ADNOC and Masdar collaborate in multi-billion dollar financial investment offer for clean and low carbon power
BP, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Masdar have partnered up to develop reduced carbon hydrogen hubs and create decarbonised air travel corridors between the UK and UAE in a deal that will see "billions" of dollars of investment.
Sep 20, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Masdar, Asia, hydrogen, UAE, bp, adnoc, CCUS
Financial Services Firm Visa Reaches 100% Renewable Electricity Goal
Visa has announced that it has met its goal to use 100% renewable electricity by 2020, furthering its commitment to lead sustainably across its operations
Jan 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, International, Renewable Electricity, milestone, Visa, Al Kelly, Douglas Sabo