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India to build solar, wind farms along Pakistan border
India plans to build a string of renewable energy projects along its sun-baked, wind-whipped western border, officials said Monday (Oct 21), as New Delhi continues an ambitious programme to reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels.
Oct 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, Pakistan, narendra modi, Anand Kumar, R.K. Singh, AFP
Namibia launches EPC tender for 20 MW solar project
The nation’s Central Procurement Board, on behalf of utility NamPower, has announced a tender to select an engineering, procurement and construction services contractor.
Oct 23, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, tender, Africa, Namibia
20 MW solar-plus-storage project tender at Zimbabwe gold mine
Canadian business Caledonia Mining Corporation plc wants to build a power plant at its Blanket mine near Gwanda, in southern Zimbabwe.
Oct 29, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, tender, solar-plus-storage, Africa, Zimbabwe, Caledonia Mining Corporation
Seoul launches 1 GW rooftop solar plan
The South Korean capital has unveiled a plan to deploy rooftop PV on a million homes and all public buildings. The new initiative is designed to bring the city’s cumulative installed solar capacity to around 1 GW by the end of 2022.
Nov 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Rooftop PV, South Korea, Asia, rooftop PV, Seoul
Endesa to replace Spanish coal complex with ‘Europe’s largest PV plant’
Plans for what is being billed as “Europe’s largest solar plant” have been put forward in Spain as the UN climate negotiations came to a close in Madrid.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, solar pv, Europe, Endesa, cop25, José Bogas, Andorra
Burns & McDonnell to build solar microgrid for U.S. Navy Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
PEARL, which will be designed and built by engineering, architecture and construction firm Burns & McDonnell, is a state-of-the-art renewable energy microgrid developed in coordination with the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT), the Air Force Research Laboratory, National Guard Bureau, Hawaii Air National Guard and the Naval Facilities Command.
Dec 18, 2019 // Grids, USA, North America, PEARL, Burns & McDonnell, HCATT, David Ige, David Molinaro, John Bothof
Iberdrola to supply environment-friendly energy to Bayer centers in Spain
Spanish renewables developer Iberdrola has actually signed a power purchase arrangement (PPA) with pharmaceutical firm Bayer to supply 100% renewable power.
Nov 18, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Iberdrola, Europe, Bayer
IFC as well as EBA to fund solar photovoltaic watering
A collaboration has just been established in between the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank subsidiary in charge of economic sector financing, and also the Agricultural Bank of Egypt (ABE). The partnership intends to fund solar-powered watering systems in Egypt.
Nov 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Asia, ifc, Africa, Egypt, ABE
Indian state intends 880MW solar park
The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has introduced plans for an 880 megawatt (MW) solar park, to be developed by state-owned Satluz Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd (SJVNL).
Dec 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, Solar Park, Jai Ram Thakur, John Yeap
2 MW Solar Plant Sees Mizoram Get in India's Solar Map
With the commissioning of what is its 1st solar power plant, a 2 MW capacity system, Mizoram has entered its place on India's solar energy map.
Dec 7, 2020 // Plants, India, Asia, PV Power Plant, Aizawl
Two new solar panel factory to be developed
According to the first annual report of the Commissariat for Renewable Energies and also Energy Efficiency (Cerefe), 2 new factories for the manufacturing of photovoltaic panels will certainly quickly see the light of day in Algeria. These installments developed by Milltech and also Zergoun Green Energy can provide 260 MWp of solar panels per year.
Dec 8, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Africa, Algeria, plant
Naturgy, Enagás to establish environment-friendly hydrogen plant in Spain together with 400MW PV park
Spanish energy Naturgy has partnered with gas grid operator Enagás to advance a green hydrogen plant together with a 400MW solar PV project in Spain's Castilla y León area.
Dec 21, 2020 // Plants, Solar to Fuel, Spain, Europe, hydrogen, Naturgy, electrolysers, enagás
Indonesia welcomes bids for solar and bioenergy projects
Indonesian state power business Perusahaan Listrikk Negara (PLN) has invited proposals from designers for solar as well as bioenergy projects.
Dec 23, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Asia, Indonesia, Perusahaan Listrikk Negara, PLN, Toby Evans
ReneSola Power Announces Sale of 12.3 MW of Projects in Hungary
ReneSola Ltd, a leading completely integrated solar project designer, today announced that it entered into an arrangement to offer a portfolio of projects situated in Hungary to Obton, a leading global solar investment firm headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
Jan 11, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, Yumin Liu, Anders Marcus, Josef Kastner, Obton Group, ReneSola Power
Environment-friendly advancements to benefit from ₤ 300m power network upgrade financing
Solar developments as well as battery storage space are to possibly gain from new financing for electrical power network upgrades designed to help with green modern technology.
Feb 8, 2021 // Large-Scale, Storage, UK, Europe, SPEN, Jonathan Brearley