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Enel works on addition to Latin America’s self-styled largest PV project
Enel has hit yet another deployment milestone with what it bills as Latin America’s biggest solar plant under construction, a project it is building in Brazil’s northeast.
Aug 22, 2019 // Plants, Enel, bifacial, Latin america, São Gonçalo, Soltec
Major solar projects change hands in Colorado, California
The US renewables business of Japanese oil and gas major Idemitsu Kosan has bought a 100MW solar project in Colorado from GCL New Energy, a subsidiary of China's GCL New Energy Holdings.
Sep 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Grids, California, USA, Colorado, North America, GCL New Energy, acquisitions,, project acquisitions, 8minute, allianz global investors, solar frontier americas, Charles Pimentel, 8minute Solar Energy
UK unsubsidised solar built-out accelerates as 'substantial' pipe enhancements are exposed
The UK is witnessing a velocity of its subsidy-free solar construct out, equally as the nation's pipe of utility-scale projects observed a record month for enhancements.
Oct 1, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, UK, Europe, subsidy-free solar, John Rennocks, lss digital series
Solar Energy Megaproject Posts World's Lowest Tariff
The Al Dhafra Solar PV project is slated to start business procedure in the 2nd quarter of 2022.
May 8, 2020 // Tariffs, Asia, UAE, Abu Dhabi Power Corp.
'Landmark' prepare for UK's very first lithium-ion Gigaplant introduced
The UK can see its very first complete cycle battery cell GigaPlant constructed after AMTE Power and also Britishvolt today dedicated to discovering its advancement.
May 20, 2020 // Plants, Storage, UK, Europe, lithium-ion, GigaPlant, AMTE Power, Kevin Brundish, Lars Carlstrom
Software application developer asserts its platform can unlock a distributed generation globe
U.K.-based Power Transition today introduced a crowdfunding workout to raise the ₤ 300,000 it claims it requires to scale up its blockchain-based, peer-to-peer power trading platform beyond a 47-home demonstration job.
May 27, 2020 // Technology, Software, UK, Europe, Power Transition, Hedera Hashgraph
Tenders Issued for Solar Plants for Agro-PV-Concept at NISE Gurugram
NISE has issued a tender for the commissioning of the 30 kWp solar PV power plant at the NISE Campus in Gurugram.
Jan 31, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, pv power plants, tender, Asia, Gurugram, NISE
KDC Solar Completes 1.6-Megawatt Solar Power Carport System for CentraState Medical
KDC Solar LLC, a wholly possessed subsidiary of CI Renewables LLC, has begun business procedures of its 1.6 megawatt (MW) solar carport at CentraState Medical in Freehold, New Jersey. The new system will certainly produce approximately 2.1 million kilowatt hrs of solar electrical energy each year. This is the matching of about 253 residences being supplied with all their power for a year.
Jan 4, 2021 // Plants, Rooftop PV, USA, KDC Solar, North America, Alan Epstein, John Gribbin
Dopant-free, humidity-stable natural layers give perovskite solar cells 21% effectiveness
Long lasting, high-performing perovskite solar cells additionally need long lasting, high-performing charge-transporting layers. Researchers have developed the first organic opening carrier that does not require a dopant to obtain high charge mobility and security.
Jan 19, 2021 // Technology, China, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, efficiency, organic cell, Yongzhen Wu, East China University of Science and Technology
Solarise Africa Increases PV Footprint in Africa
Ingenious renewable resource leasing options now functional in Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia with new collaboration
Feb 10, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Africa, Battery Energy Storage, sustainable energy, International, solar projects, Solarise Africa, David John Frenkil, Patrik Huber
Construction underway for Panama’s self-styled largest solar plant
The utility-scale solar momentum slowly coursing through Latin America looks set to extend to one of the region’s smallest countries, with a large project now progressing through construction.
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, Europe, North America, esslatam, solarcentury, panama, inelsa, hedomin, Manuel Domínguez
UK Government comes around on grid storage planning
In January, the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy opened consultation on its solar-plus-storage proposals. To date, systems with a capacity bigger than 50 MW are classed Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Oct 21, 2019 // Storage, storage, NSIP, UK, Europe, solar-plus-storage, Chris Hewett
Fate of green hydrogen depends on ever cheaper renewables – for now
Analyst WoodMac has spelled out the urgent need to decarbonize the global hydrogen production industry. While the fuel can offer a sustainable grid balancing act for intermittent renewables, in its current fossil-fuel driven form it is pumping out more than 800 tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year.
Oct 22, 2019 // Solar, Solar to Fuel, USA, Japan, Germany, Wood Mackenzie, Australia, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, Oceania, North America, green hydrogen, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
EDF secures a slice of UK supermarket Tesco’s corporate solar plan
The French energy giant will provide supermarket Tesco with electricity from 17 rooftop PV installations and two wind farms for a renewables portfolio generation capacity of 59 MW. The groceries retailer has announced plans to install 187 solar rooftops.
Oct 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, UK, EDF, Europe, rooftop PV, Cleantech Solar, Tesco, Jason Tarry
Scatec Solar Bags 3 Solar Projects Worth 360 MW in Tunisia
Scatec Solar has been awarded three solar power plant projects in Tunisia totaling approximately 360 MW, following an international tender launched earlier.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Raymond Carlsen, Scatec Solar, Tunisia, Africa