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Torrent Power Bets $7.6 Billion on Renewables, Green Ammonia
Torrent Power Ltd unveils a bold plan to invest INR 640 billion for 10 GW renewable energy expansion and green ammonia production, paving the way for a sustainable future.
Sep 17, 2024 // Plants, green ammonia, Torrent Power Ltd
Solar panel recycling: Turning ticking time bombs into possibilities
Australia has certainly shown its cravings for solar energy. Now, with the average lifespan of a solar panel being around 20 years, lots of installations from the early 2000's are readied to get to end-of-life. Will they wind up in landfill or be reused? The price of recycling is greater than landfill, as well as the worth of recovered materials is smaller sized than the original, so there's minimal interest in recycling. However offered the existence of heavy metals, such as lead as well as tin, if waste is managed improperly, we're on track for one more recycling situation. A prospective time bomb could emerge as a possibility, nonetheless, if the international EV market revealed a passion in the recuperated solar products.
May 27, 2020 // Opinions, Australia, Oceania, WORLD, GREENMAT, Mahdokht Shaibani
JinkoSolar Nears 28% With TOPCon Efficiency Record
JinkoSolar smashes a new n-type TOPCon record at 27.79%—ISFH verified—pushing power density and project economics, pressuring rivals as 28% looms. Production timing TBD; tech rolling into products.
Nov 27, 2025 // Technology, Manufacturing News, JinkoSolar, efficiency
China Bets on Egypt’s Solar and Battery Hub
Chinese-backed solar and battery plants in Egypt target MENA–Europe exports, riding port logistics and incentives to localize supply chains, train talent, and spark EV, storage, and green hydrogen growth.
Jan 20, 2026 // Manufacturing News, China, Asia, Africa, Egypt
ZETDC Inks 30MW Solar PPA to Stabilize Grid
Zimbabwe inks bankable 30‑MW solar PPA, easing daytime shortfalls, priming storage-ready grid upgrades and jobs—standardized terms paving faster finance and larger hybrid builds for reliable, cleaner power.
Jan 28, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, Zimbabwe, utility scale, solar ppa, Zetdc, Grid reliability
Meta Taps Zelestra for 136 MW Texas Solar
Meta inks 136‑MW Texas solar PPA, powering data centers and ERCOT peaks, with battery-ready design—locking price certainty, cutting Scope 2, and boosting local jobs and grid resilience.
Feb 4, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, PPA, Texas, utility-scale, North America, meta
Algeria Starts 400-MW Solar, Eyes 1.4 GW More
Algeria ramps up renewables with two 400MW solar parks—Tindela and El Ghrous—then targets 1,400MW+ more this year, spotlighting faster delivery, grid integration, and reliable power output.
Apr 13, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, mena, Algeria, utility solar, solar commissioning, capacity targets
Mirror-like photovoltaics obtain even more electrical energy out of warm
New heat-harnessing "solar" cells that show 99% of the power they can not transform to electrical energy might aid bring down the rate of saving renewable energy as warmth, as well as harvesting waste warmth from exhaust pipes as well as chimneys.
Sep 22, 2020 // Technology, solar cell, Andrej Lenert, Steve Forrest
Redflow Gen3 Battery Customer Trials Begin
Australian energy storage space company Redflow has announced the first customer trial of its new Gen3 flow battery system.
Dec 29, 2020 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Redflow, Tim Harris, flow battery, Gen3
Live fast, die young: MIT study proposes use of 10-year panels
Research has found even short-lived, 10 to 15-year solar panels could provide enough return for bankable projects. The researchers believe panel costs, coupled with an industry mindset now fixed on the final solar energy price rather than costs per kilowatt installed, may open opportunities for PV products currently snubbed because of a short lifecycle.
Sep 24, 2019 // Technology, USA, LCOE, MIT, North America, Bertrand Lempkowicz
Shell to power Philippines refinery with solar, storage and natural gas
In a bid to reduce its carbon footprint the oil giant is ramping up its renewable energy production at a refinery in the Philippines. The news was announced by the company in a week which saw it named seventh worst corporate contributor to the climate crisis since awareness of emissions-related damage first emerged.
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Solar to Fuel, Asia, hydrogen, Philippines, shell, Cesar Romero, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
Downstream solar meets upstream innovation at PV ModuleTech 2019
Bifacial module yields, manufacturer bankability probing and quality benchmarking strategies have all taken centre stage at this year’s edition of PV ModuleTech in Malaysia.
Oct 22, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Malaysia, First Solar, solar pv, pv modules, Asia, PV module, bankability, pv moduletech
Atlas Renewable Energy Wins Accolades in Latin America
Miami-based Atlas Renewable Energy wins IJGlobal's 2020 Latin America Sponsor of the Year Award and Latin America Solar Deal of the Year Award for its Ananuca Financial Deal. In 2020, the company authorized 3 major funding contracts: Ananuca worth USD 253 Million, Lar do Sol-- Casablanca worth USD 150 million and also New Juazeiro for USD 67 Million.
Jul 1, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Chile, South america, Atlas Renewable Energy, Carlos Barrera, Ananuca Financial Deal, Michael Shea
Uzbekistan inaugurates first utility-scale 100MW solar energy plant
Uzbekistan's Energy Ministry introduced on August 27 the inauguration event for the nation's first utility-scale solar plant-- and the first successfully-financed independent power producer (IPP) solar project in the Navoi area.
Aug 27, 2021 // Plants, Asia, Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, pv power plnt
Solar Inventions receives patent for solar cell production process that can conserve millions in silver costs
The U.S. Patent and also Trademark Office has granted Solar Inventions a patent on its better architecture for solar photovoltaic cells, the company revealed today, opening the door to industrial approval and also licensing by leading suppliers.
Nov 18, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, North America, patent, Bill Nussey, Configurable Current Cells