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Dutch government seeks to privatize Tennet
Tennet needs more than €4.75 billion to invest in cross-border grid infrastructure between Germany and the Netherlands, as rising volumes of solar and wind are complicating network operations, said Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra in a recent letter to the Dutch parliament, adding that the government may need to privatize the state-owned transmission system operator or sell off a stake in it.
Sep 16, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, Netherlands, Tennet, Wopke Hoekstra
Ørsted Unveils 320-MW Solar Farm Plans in UK
Ørsted A/S unveils plans for a 320-MW solar farm in East Riding, reinforcing the UK’s renewable energy future and commitment to sustainability. A bright step towards greener horizons!
Jan 22, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, PV Power Plant, Ørsted A/S
Saudi Arabia Unveils 4.5 GW Renewable Energy Tender
Saudi Arabia accelerates its green revolution, launching a tender for 4.5 GW of solar and wind projects, aiming for 50% renewable energy by 2030. Bright future ahead!
Sep 25, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Saudi Arabia, tender, Asia
African Infrastructure Gets Boost From $12 Billion Climate Fund
GCF commits $253.7 million to AFC Capital Infrastructure Fund
Equity financial investment is largest made by GCF in Africa to date
Mar 21, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, gcf, AFC Capital Infrastructure Fund
MENA to include 50GW of utility-scale solar by 2030, report says
Countries between East as well as North Africa have plans to increase utility-scale solar capacity by 49.5 GW by 2030, according to Global Energy Monitor (GEM).
Jun 30, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Africa, middle east, mena, Morocco
Secure Solar Futures sets up 313-kW array atop Virginia homeless shelter
This month, CARITAS started powering its one-of-a-kind healing and homeless solutions facility in Richmond, Virginia, with solar power.
Dec 6, 2022 // Plants, CARITAS, Secure Solar Futures, Ryan McAllister, Karen Stanley
Mercedes Benz Acquires Stake in Battery Cell Manufacturer Farasis
Mercedes-Benz has developed a calculated collaboration with the Chinese battery cell supplier Farasis and also is also taking an equity risk in the company.
Jul 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, finance, EV, Mercedes-Benz, Battery Cell, EV Battery, Farasis, Markus Schäfer, Mercedes Benz Farasis
Multilateral lenders finance Armenia's biggest PV plant
It has actually been 2 years because Fotowatio Renewable Ventures won the bid to create the 55 MW site as well as with money ultimately protected, the construct can proceed.
Jul 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, tender, Europe, Armenia, PV Power Plant, Mikel de Irala, Andrea Wiktorin
Schneider Picks ACEN to Green Cavite Factories
Schneider Electric taps ACEN to power five Cavite sites with 100% renewables via GEOP—Luzon eco-zone first, 11,600t CO2 avoided—setting a scalable corporate PPA blueprint for Southeast Asia.
Jan 7, 2026 // Plants, Asia, Schneider Electric, Philippines, ACEN
Solar Cleansing Start-up Solavio Labs Obtains Financing from Canadian Province
Solavio Labs, an Indian tidy tech startup introducing in the photovoltaic panel cleaning innovation space has introduced the completion of funding from Canadian Province-- New Brunswick for Rs 40,60,000 taking their overall fund elevated to Rs 2 crores.
Feb 19, 2021 // Technology, India, Asia, Start-up, Solavio, Suraj Mohan
Fourth Partner Energy Expands Impact Ties up With Indonesia's Indika Energy
Fourth Partner Energy has partnered with Indika Energy to develop JV -EMITS with the goal of accelerating Indonesia's renewable resource shift.
Mar 5, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Indonesia, Renewable Energy, Fourth Partner Energy, Indika Energy, Vivek Subramanian, Arsjad Rasjid
GOGLA, Solar Energy Association Marks 2020 With USD 316 Million Investment
GOGLA, the worldwide association for off-grid solar energy, which provides off-grid electrical energy product or services, has introduced that the overall investment into the off-grid solar market in 2020 represented USD 316 million, 4 million more than 2019.
Mar 15, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Gogla, off-grid solar energy industry
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Promising soiling mitigation solutions should not be left to gather dust
A study has estimated the cost of PV project soiling may increase from €3-5 billion last year to €4-7 billion by 2023 due to more extensive deployment in high insolation and soiling-affected regions, such as China and India. The authors of the paper outlined the potential of soiling mitigation technologies while stressing more R&D is needed to reduce costs and for the adoption of such measures on a larger scale.
Oct 25, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, India, China, Asia, coating materials, soiling
IRENA and also Ocean Energy Europe Companion to Drive Ocean Energy Market
New IRENA reports forecast a 20-fold development possibility of ocean energy by 2030, giving coastal neighborhoods with a climate-safe roadmap for COVID-19 recuperation
Dec 1, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, IRENA, MoU, Francesco La Camera, covid-19, Ocean Energy Europe, Rémi Gruet









