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Electric Vehicles

Volkswagen Group Investing ~€1B in Vehicles and Components, Purchasing Center in Hefei; Shortening Development Time by 30%

The Volkswagen Group is investing around €1 billion in a new development, innovation, and procurement center for fully connected intelligent electric vehic…

Solar Inverter

SMA Solar Begins Work on 20 GW Inverter Factory in Germany

SMA says its total inverter capacity will double to 40 GW once its new factory is fully operational in Niestetal, Germany.SMA Solar Technology AG has started bu…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Israel Introduces Storage-Linked Tariff for Distributed PV

The Electricity Authority of Israel has decided to regulate the connection of energy storage systems to low-voltage PV plants with capacities of up to 630 kW. I…

Solar Cell

New Findings Pave the Way for Stable Organic Solar Cells That May Enable Cheap and Renewable Electricity Generation

Due to the recent improvements in the efficiency with which solar cells made from organic (carbon-based) semiconductors can convert sunlight into electricity, i…

Solar project

British Consultancy Further Highlights Solar in Energy Transition

UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember recently released a report, revealing that wind and solar energy account for 12% of global electricity in 2022, up …

Solar Power Plant

EU Launches First Cross-Border Solar Tender

Participants in the European Union’s new cross-border solar tender will have to submit project proposals with capacities between 5 MW and 100 MW. Luxembourg is…

Energy Saving

Towards More Efficient and Eco-Friendly Thermoelectric Oxides With Hydrogen Substitution

Today, over half of the total energy produced from fossil fuels is discarded as waste heat, which accelerates global warming. If we could convert the waste heat…

Rooftop Solar

Cape Town Deploying Us$65 Million Solar-Plus-Storage Project to ‘Reduce Eskom Reliance’

A solar-plus-storage project is being planned for the capital of South Africa, as the city looks to move away from Eskom reliance and towards a load-shedding-fr…

Battery

New Passive Device Continuously Generates Electricity During the Day or Night

Researchers have developed a new thermoelectric generator (TEG) that can continuously generate electricity using heat from the sun and a radiative element that …

Wind Farm

Arcelormittal and Casa Dos Ventos Will Invest in Wind Power in Bahia, Brazil

The steel company ArcelorMittal and the renewable energy generator Casa dos Ventos announced on Tuesday the creation of a joint venture for a wind energy park i…

Wind Farm

Wind Energy in Venezuela, a Frustrated Attempt

The first attempt to generate renewable energy in Venezuela occurred more than 10 years ago with the construction of a wind farm in La Guajira, in the state of …

Wind Farm

Goldwind– First Chinese Wind Turbine Manufacturer to Exceed 100GW Global Installed Capacity

Recently, Goldwind achieved an important development milestone by exceeding 100GW of global installed capacity through the successful lifting of several wind po…

Wind Farm

EDP Renewables Ramps up Clean Energy Production in the First Quarter of 2023

EDP Renewables (EDPR) takes a step forward to assert itself as a leader in the energy transition and enlarged its installed capacity and clean energy production…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Finnish EPR Enters Regular Electricity Production

Test production has been completed at the Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) EPR in Finland and the plant has now started regular electricity production, operator Teollisuuden V…

Clean Energy Transition

G7 Commits to Big New Targets for Solar and Offshore Wind, Moves Toward Quicker Fossil Fuel Phase-Out

In their communique, the members pledged to collectively increase offshore wind capacity by 150 GW by 2030 and solar capacity to more than 1 TW.The Group of Sev…