Solar

Solar Materials

A New Module Factory, Increasing Wafer Prices

Eco Green Energy is building a 1 GW panel factory in the Jiangsu Province. Longi announced higher wafer prices for April.

United Kingdom

Octopus Renewables Looks to Further Growth After Strong First Year Results

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) has hailed the success of its inaugural year with a gross asset value of £441 million from 24 assets.

United Kingdom

EDF Acquires 100MW of Solar as UK Portfolio Continues to Grow

EDF Renewables has acquired two grid scale solar projects, adding 100MW to its growing UK portfolio.

Solar Power Plant

ETHIOPIA: Masdar to Supply 500 MWp of Solar Energy in the Coming Months

The Emirati independent power producer (IPP) Masdar Clean Energy has just obtained the approval of the Ethiopian government to produce 500 MWp of solar energy.

Hybrid Power Plant

GE to Provide Solar-Storage Combo for New York Hybrid

GE Renewable Energy has been selected by Convergent Energy + Power to provide an integrated solar inverter and battery package for a 123 megawatt-hour hybrid so…

Concentrating Solar Power

VRB Energy to Build Battery-Integrated Solar Power Station in China

VRB Energy has agreed to build a 100MW solar photovoltaic plant with a 100MW/500MWh integrated vanadium flow battery in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, China.

Solar Power Plant

African Petrol Stations Embracing Solar

Roof-mounted solar, and even storage systems, provide cheaper power than mains electricity or diesel generation, prompting companies such as Total to install mo…

Solar Power Plant

Burkina Faso to get 30MW Solar Plant for National Grid

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund will finance 80% of the construction of Urbasolar SAS’ new solar plant planned for 250km south-east of Ouagadougou, Bur…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Solaris Starts Deliveries of Urbino Hydrogen Buses to Cologne

In March 2020, in a tender launched by German operator Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH, Solaris Bus & Coach was selected to supply 15 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buse…

Carbon Neutral

Xinjiang Sets Record High Wind Energy, Solar Power Generation

Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is taking the lead in China’s renewable energy push, with new energy installed capacity reaching a record h…

Solar Materials

China's Xinte Adding to Polysilicon Capacity

Chinese polysilicon producer Xinte plans to build a 100,000 t/yr plant in Baotou city in north China's Inner Mongolia in response to firmer demand from the phot…

Market Analysis

National Nuclear Energy Plans for Clean Power, Heat and Hydrogen Showcased at IAEA-IEA Event

Nuclear power remains the world’s second largest source of low carbon electricity after hydro, producing more than solar and wind combined.

Market Analysis

Solar & Wind In South Africa Contributed More Than Nuclear For 1st Time Ever In 2020

The rest was met by other sources, including diesel, hydro, and pumped storage plants.

Solar Power Plant

Cambodia: Banteay Meanchey Solar Farm Adds 39MW to National Grid

A 39MW solar power plant in far northwestern Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province has been successful brought to the national grid, Shenzhen-listed solar devel…

Solar Inverter

Sungrow Supplies Inverters for the Sol do Sertao Solar Complex after Agreement with Essentia Energia

The projects will be implemented in Oliveira dos Brejinhos, a city in Bahia that is about 600 km from the capital and will have a total capacity of 475 MWp once…