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Meyer Burger Cancels Colorado Solar Factory Plans
Meyer Burger pivots away from Colorado, focusing on Arizona's 1.4-GW factory amid financial headwinds, signaling a strategic shift in solar manufacturing.
Aug 26, 2024 // Manufacturing News, solar cell, meyer burger
Salt River Project is joining solar storage market leaders
One of the major public utilities in Arizona is starting deployment of a 250 MW / 1,000 MWh storage facility in Rainbow Valley, the southern neighborhood of Buckeye (Phoenix Metropolitan Area). Sonoran Energy Center is going to become the biggest storage system in Arizona and one of the biggest in the US.
Nov 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, North America, Salt River Project, Sonoran Energy Center
ACEN Powers Up Philippines first Hybrid Solar-Storage Plant
The 2 × 20 MW energy storage facility is adjacent to ACEN's 120 MW Alaminos solar farm. The facility holds 24 battery containers with SAFT 2.5 MWh lithium-ion batteries, likely sufficient to power regarding 20,000 homes and avoid 35.87 MTCO2e exhausts annually.
Feb 24, 2022 // Plants, Storage, Asia, Philippines, ACEN, Alaminos solar farm, Eric Francia, Jose Maria Zabaleta
Habitat Energy to Enhance 250-MW Canberra Battery Storage
Habitat Energy partners with Eku Energy to harness AI for optimizing a pivotal 250-MW battery system, driving Canberra's renewable transition towards a net-zero future by 2045.
Dec 13, 2024 // Storage, Habitat Energy
Cowessess First Nation commissions 10-MW solar park in Saskatchewan
Awasis Solar LP, a project vehicle that is 95%-possessed by the Cowessess First Nation, has commissioned an Indigenous-led and also government-backed solar project of 10 MW in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Nov 10, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Solar Park, Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan
Masdar Eyes EBRD Financing for 200-MW Solar in Armenia
Masdar is seeking financing for the construction of a 200 MW solar farm in western Armenia. Get the latest updates on the USD 186.6 million project and the expected November 28, 2023 decision on the Clean Technology Fund concessional loan. This eco-friendly initiative could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 169,000 tonnes annually.
Oct 18, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Masdar, Europe, Armenia
Goodwe constructs new inverter manufacturing facility to reach 1.2 m systems annually
Chinese solar inverter maker Jiangsu Goodwe Power Supply Tech Co Ltd (SHA:688390) will certainly get to production capacity of 25 GW, or 1.2 million systems each year, following year adhering to the conclusion of stage II of its Guangde production base.
Jun 11, 2021 // Inverters, China, Asia, GoodWe
Wind Energy And Battery Storage To Combine For Baseload Supply To BHP In Australia
French EPC major Neoen, which has been active in Australia with big battery and renewables contracts, has opted for a combination of wind and big battery for the first time to give baseload powr. The baseload contract has actually been signed with mining huge BHP for its Ausralian mines
Nov 3, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, neoen, Wind Energy, bhp, hybrid renewables, baseload power, copper mine in australia, goyder south wind farm, olympic dam copper mine
Kalyon completes its 1.35 GW solar park Karapınar in Turkey's Konya province
Kalyon Holding's renewable energy branch has actually finished the construction of its 1.35 GW solar energy plant in Karapınar in Central Anatolia. It is just one of the biggest in the world. The Turkish business likewise said it increased the capacity of its solar module factory near Ankara to 2 GW per year.
Apr 10, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Turkey, Solar Power, renewable energy sources, Karapinar
Renewables Produce Record 50.7% of Energy in May in Spain
The Red Eléctrica de España (REE), a partially state-owned and public restricted corporation which runs the nationwide power grid in Spain, recently reported that renewable energy reached a vital turning point last month when, for the very first time, more than half of the energy generated in the country was of eco-friendly origin.
Jun 8, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, Renewable Energy, wind and solar, Red Eléctrica de España, REE
Saudi Arabia to back clean energy makers, developers via new loan scheme
Saudi Arabia is expanding the reach of its 105 billion riyal (US$28 billion) industrial fund to spur renewables through loans to component manufacturers, to independent power projects and to projects spearheaded by firms in other industries.
Sep 30, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Saudi Arabia, tender, Asia, auction, green loan, Mohammad bin Salman
Musk claims Bitcoin will win Tesla back when miners welcome clean energy
United States electric cars (EVs) manufacturer Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) will certainly return to approving acquisitions with Bitcoin when it is confirmed that miners use a "affordable" amount of clean power for their operations.
Jun 14, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Blockchain, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, North America, Bitcoin
Gigawatts of solar PV, energy storage breakthrough in Indonesia as Singapore interconnector strategies gather pace
Solar as well as energy storage space projects worth gigawatts of generation as well as storage space capacity have actually born down Indonesia's Riau Islands, with Singapore aligned to procure the electricity generated.
Apr 19, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Asia, ib vogt, Singapore, Indonesia, rfp, joint venture, Anton Milner, renewables export, Quantum Power Asia, Simon Bell
ATCO Acquires RE Portfolio Worth C$ 730 M From Suncor Energy
It includes a diversified operating portfolio of wind assets-- consisting of the new 202 MW Forty Mile wind project in Alberta and a majority interest in the Adelaide wind facility in Ontario. The main declaration held that the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023.
Oct 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, power purchase agreement, Wind Energy, wind power, ATCO, Bob Myles, Canadian Utilities Limited, Nancy Southern, wind facility
First Solar completes manufacturing expansion in Ohio, now with total solar panel production capacity at 1.9 GW
Thin-film solar panel manufacturer First Solar today announced the start of production at its new PV module manufacturing facility in Lake Township, Ohio — a few miles from its flagship 600-MW factory in Perrysburg, Ohio. With the completed addition, First Solar has a total annualized production capacity of 1.9 GW in the United States. The company also manufactures panels in Malaysia and Vietnam.
Oct 26, 2019 // Manufacturing News, USA, First Solar, Mark Widmar, thin-film, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, Ohio, Tymen de Jong