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Solar Power Plant

Portugal Hits 1 GW Milestone

Portugal now has more than 1.03 GW of operational PV capacity, making solar its third-biggest renewable energy source behind hydropower (7.1 GW) and wind power …

Wind Power Project

Bangladesh Approves First Major Wind Power Plant

The cabinet committee on national purchase at a meeting on Wednesday approved the construction of a 55 megawatt capacity wind power plant at Mongla in Bagerhat.

Wind Farm

Boralex Switches on 64MW French Wind

Blanches Fosses, Seuil de Bapaume extension and repowered Cham Longe take capacity in France to over 1GW.

Hydropower Plant

China: Tibet Datang Zala Hydropower Station Approved

On December 3, China Datang’s 2020 key approval project, Tibet’s first Datang Zala Hydropower Station with an installed capacity of over one million kilowatts…

Substation

Finland to Build New Power Substation

Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid has started building a new substation in southern Finland that will facilitate the connection of up to 1GW of new w…

Energy Storage Battery

Commercial Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Plant Opens up in Rochester, New York

Lithium battery recycling company Li-Cycle now has capacity to recycle 10,000 tonnes a year of spent lithium-ion batteries, having just opened its Rochester, Ne…

Rooftop PV System

Vietnam's Rooftop PV Solar Installed Capacity will Reach 2GW in 2020

The local media in Vietnam reported on December 4 that even if it was affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Vietnamese solar market still achieved g…

Offshore Wind Power

UK’s Current Offshore Wind Pipeline Falls Short of 2030 Target

Latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Renewables Pipeline Tracker Report’ show that even if all UK current offshore wind sites with leasing are developed i…

Solar Power Plant

Ukraine Moots 895 MW of New Solar to 2025

If a call by the Ministry of Energy to procure 155 MW of solar next year is adopted, a first, 50 MW auction would be held in June.

Floating Offshore Wind

Global Floating Wind Energy Market to Record a 2000-Fold Increase by 2050

A new report forecasts that with the right drivers in place, the installed capacity of floating wind energy will grow from the existing 100 MW to 250 GW in 2050…

Battery Recycling

Li-Cycle Commercial Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Plant Now Operational in Rochester, NY

Li-Cycle Corp., North America’s largest capacity lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced that its Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park in Rochest…

Coal Mine

U.S. Coal Output Capacity Has Plunged 28% Since 2009 Peak

Declining coal demand across several sectors, especially electricity generation, has led to a 28-percent slump in U.S. coal mining productive capacity since the…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

German Energy Regulator Awards Permits to Close Hard Coal-to-Power Plants

Germany's energy regulator on Tuesday said some 4,788 MW worth of hard coal-fired power generation capacity may close on Jan 1, 2021 as part of a policy to take…

CCS

CCS Sector Rapidly Recovering from Pipeline Slump

Planned carbon capture and storage capacity has increased by 33% year-on-year, according to a report released today.

Offshore Wind Power

Polish Council of Ministers Adopts Offshore Wind Act

Approval of bill paves the way for 5.9GW of capacity to offered by the end of June 2021