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Romania's BESS Capacity to Reach 5 GW by 2026
Romania sets ambitious targets for battery energy storage systems, aiming for 2.5 GW by next year and 5 GW by 2026. Major investments underway to meet growing energy needs.
Jul 23, 2024 // Storage, Europe, Romania
FREYR Bags EUR 100m for Norway Gigafactory
FREYR Battery (NYSE:FREY) has been awarded a €100 million grant from the European Commission’s Innovation Fund to build a Giga Arctic factory in Norway. Tom Einar Jensen, CEO, expressed his excitement for the project, which will help unlock GWh scale capacity for next generation battery production. Construction begins in June 2022.
Jul 14, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Norway, Freyr
Leeward Renewable Energy signs PPAs with Verizon for 360MW of solar
Renewables designer as well as driver Leeward Renewable Energy has actually signed power acquisition agreements (PPAs) with telecom company Verizon for a portfolio of four under-development solar and also wind plants in the US with an incorporated capacity of 640MW.
Jan 25, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, Texas, Arizona, First Solar, North America, leeward renewable energy, Verizon
Enel Green Power Spain to develop solar farm with VRFB storage space in Mallorca
Enel Green Power Espana, the renewables division of Spanish utility Endesa SA (BME: ELE), has acquired construction permits to develop 2 smaller sized solar farms on the island of Mallorca, Spain, one of them including energy storage space in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB).
Dec 13, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Spain, Europe, PV Power Plant, Mallorca, Enel Green Power Espana
DOE promises $20 million in financing for perovskite solar modern technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has actually announced $20 million in moneying to advance perovskite solar photovoltaic or pv innovations. Perovskites are a family of materials with a specific crystal structure, named after the mineral keeping that framework. When used to develop solar cells, they have shown possible for high performance as well as reduced production prices. To be affordable in the marketplace, perovskite's lasting durability need to be evaluated as well as validated, the objective of this financing chance statement with DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
Aug 14, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, USA, perovskite, North America, Dan Brouillette, doe, Mark W. Menezes
Acciona Preps 380-MWp Solar Park in Australia
Acciona, a Spanish energy giant, is set to build the 380MW Aldoga solar project in Queensland, Australia, in 2024, creating 350 jobs and providing renewable energy to 185,000 households. Acciona's project will also power the 2.24GW Central Queensland Hydrogen Project, producing green hydrogen for export and local industries.
Dec 4, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, Acciona, PV Power Plant
Spanish financial institution gets huge risk in solar racking supplier
Banco Sabadell has actually obtained a 41.5% rate of interest in Pamplona-based STI Norland via its Aurica Capita fund.
Feb 20, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Spain, Banco Sabadell, Europe, Aurica Capital, Raúl Rodríguez
Norfund invests in MOPO, scaling solar battery rentals across Africa
Norway’s Norfund invested GBP 5 million in MOPO, backing solar-charged battery rentals that deliver affordable, reliable power in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sep 12, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Africa, Norway, norfund
Ghana's very first reciprocal solar PPA
Plastic producer Miniplast will certainly purchase electrical energy from a 704 kW grid-connected solar array possessed as well as run by Norwegian developer Empower New Energy AS.
Feb 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, PPA, Africa, Ghana, Miniplast, Empower New Energy AS, Stella Futura Ltd
EDF Renewables wins authorization for 50MW UK solar
South Holland District Council has given permission for the Sutton Bridge project to go ahead after examination
Mar 11, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, EDF Renewables, Ben Fawcett
Swansea Pioneers Roll-to-Roll Printable Solar Cells
Swansea University pioneers cost-effective, scalable carbon ink for perovskite solar cells, enabling high-speed, low-temperature production with improved efficiency and stability, paving the way for cleaner energy solutions.
Apr 4, 2025 // Technology, Manufacturing News, solar cell, perovskite, Swansea University
SGEL Eyes Buying Land for 200MW Solar Project
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Dec 4, 2023 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, tender, SJVN, SGEL
Banks Renewables' Leeds solar farm starts ahead
A new solar farm readied to have actually an installed capability of up to 50MW has been accepted by Leeds City Council.
Jun 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, UK, Europe, Banks Renewables, Lewis Stokes
AfDB Approves $27 Mn Loan to Establish 200 MW Solar Plant in Egypt
The African Development Bank's Board of Directors today authorized $27.2 million in lending financing for the layout, building and construction and also operation of a 200 MW photovoltaic solar power plant at Kom Ombo, in Upper Egypt on the river Nile.
Mar 9, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Africa, Egypt, AfDB, African Development Bank, kom ombo, Solar Power Plant, Electricity, Kevin Kariuki
Iberdrola, Norges Bank close giga-deal for solar, wind in Spain
Spanish utility Iberdrola SA (BME: IBE) claimed on Wednesday that it has actually settled the agreement with Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to offer it a minority risk in a 1,265-MW wind as well as solar portfolio in Spain and included greater than 500 MW of renewables to the negotiations.
May 31, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, Norges Bank