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DOE launches plan for enormous solar energy growth in the United States
The UNITED STATE Department of Energy (DOE) today released the "Solar Futures Study," outlining the considerable function solar will certainly play in decarbonizing the country's power grid.
Sep 8, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, North America, doe
Vattenfall to build large scale wind-solar-storage plant in the Netherlands
The energy company will build a 38 MW solar, 22 MW wind and 12 MW battery project on one site. The first fully renewable hybrid power plant could be a blueprint for post-subsidy Germany. Vattenfall has an eye on German coalfields in particular.
Aug 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, storage, Germany, Netherlands, hybrid power plant, wind-solar-storage, Vattenfall, Haringvliet Zuid Energy Park, ground-mounted, Claus Wattendrup
Indian oil issue Tender for the 130kW Rooftop Solar Plant in Maharashtra
Indian Oil has issued a Tender for interested investors for construction of the 130 KW grid solar plant to be sited at Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Dec 20, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, pv power plants, tender, maharashtra, Indian Oil
Cautious Policy Design Might Open Large Rooftop Solar Market Around The Globe
Customer-sited solar is a significant untapped chance, which might see 167 million households and also 23 million businesses worldwide holding their own tidy power generation by 2050, according to a joint report by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF) and Schneider Electric. These deployments will certainly unlock major decarbonization benefits, however policy and tariff design will certainly be important to enable them.
Sep 23, 2021 // Rooftop PV, USA, rooftop PV, North America, Vincent Petit, Yayoi Sekine
The Hydrogen Stream: Underground hydrogen storage for 1 MW electrolyzer in France
Elsewhere, several hydrogen projects were introduced in Norway, Germany, India, China and also the UK. Royal Dutch Shell started operations at the power-to-hydrogen electrolyzer in China as well as Germany's Linde Engineering authorized a contract for the construction a green hydrogen demo plant in Norway. In Addition, Green Hydrogen Systems signed a supply agreement with Edinburgh-based Logan Energy to deliver electrolysis tools for a project in England.
Jan 31, 2022 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, France, Germany, UK, India, China, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, Norway
Take a break on the solar bench – but not for too long
Engie has raised eyebrows with the installation of several solar benches in Biarritz, southwestern France, as a local official has asked citizens to avoid sitting on them for long periods of time in order to keep their energy yield up. But the authorities over in Cannes are clearly impressed, as the municipal government in the French Riviera resort town has also revealed plans to buy more of the PV benches, which are designed by Croatian startup Include.
Aug 22, 2019 // Solar, France, Engie, pv modules, Europe, Guillaume Barucq, solar benches, Cannes
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act enters into force in the United States
The US' Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) has entered into pressure today as well as thinks that any type of things "completely or partially" made in China's Xinjiang region are a product of the area's affirmed labour camps for ethnic minorities, meaning they are banned from going into the US.
Jun 21, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Policy, USA, China, Asia, North America, Xinjiang, imports, import ban, Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act, customs and border protection, UFLPA
Meralco, Vena break ground on 68-MW solar project in the Philippines
Singapore's Vena Energy as well as the green energy arm of Philippine power generator Meralco PowerGen Corp (MGEN) have formally released the construction of a 68-MW solar park in the Philippines' Ilocos Norte province.
Aug 25, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Asia, Philippines, Meralco, Solar Project, Vena break
A brand-new solid-state battery shocks the researchers who developed it
Engineers created a brand-new kind of battery that weaves 2 promising battery sub-fields right into a solitary battery. The battery utilizes both a solid state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode, making it a silicon all-solid-state battery.
Sep 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, University of California San Diego, Shirley Meng, LG Energy Solution, Darren H. S. Tan, Myung-hwan Kim
Vietnam to keep the existing feed in tariff for one more year
The government of the country finds it vital not to change the existing FIT till the end of the year in order to keep rooftop solar development at high level.
Jan 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Tariffs, Rooftop PV, Asia, rooftop PV, Vietnam
Renewables permitting in Iberia unfit for the new power paradigm, investors say
Solar implementation in Iberia is being held back by planning as well as permitting and also laws unfit for the emerging power paradigm and European Commission intervention might be essential, a panel of investors has concluded.
Mar 9, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, Portugal, Europe, iberia, permitting, Pablo Otin, guarantees of origin, regulations, Carlos Rey Micolau, Tiago Thomaz
Sunpin protects hedge for 70-MW solar park in The golden state
United States designer Sunpin Solar LLC has actually authorized a hedge contract covering monetary facets of its 70-MW/98-MWp Titan Solar 1 park in California's Imperial Region.
Feb 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Sunpin Solar, Solar Park
Renewed insight into the clean-energy job transition for coal-industry towns
Renown think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has published a new report looking directly at the near-future for fossil-fuel industry dependent towns and communities like Collie in WA. The report suggests that Collie has great hope for renewal, a hope founding on the state’s rapid transition to renewable energies.
Jan 16, 2020 // Market Research, Australia, Oceania, Beyond Zero Emissions
Colorful photovoltaic panels could make the innovation a lot more eye-catching
Solar panels aren't just for rooftops anymore-- some structures also have these power-generating structures throughout their facades. Yet as even more buildings and also public areas include solar innovations, their dull black color can leave sightseers underwhelmed.
Aug 16, 2022 // Technology, solar panel, American Chemical Society
These solar panels don't require the sunlight to create energy
Over cast days position an actual trouble for solar panels. Yet a brand-new advancement can transform UV light to energy-- even if the sunlight isn't beaming.
Nov 23, 2020 // Technology, USA, solar panel, North America, AuREUS, Carvey Ehren Maigue, James Dyson, Tom Crawford