Energy

United States

Santa Fe County officials approve massive solar array near Stanley

One of the largest solar and battery energy storage developments proposed in New Mexico has won approval from the Santa Fe County Planning Commission.Thursday n…

Australia

Amazon signs first solar-plus-storage PPAs in Australia to power AI expansion

Tech giant Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia totalling 430MW, with eight projects featuring solar gen…

Colombia

Colombia announces renewable energy auction

Colombian Energy ​Minister Edwin Palma on April 15 announced an upcoming renewable ‌energy auction, saying that he would travel to the United States next …

United States

Nuclear reactor developer X‑Energy targets $7.5 billion valuation in US IPO

Amazon-backed X-Energy is targeting a valuation of up to $7.51 billion in its initial public offering ​in the United States, the nuclear reactor developer said…

China

BYD notches up 100,000th delivery of electric and hybrid cars in Australia

Chinese car maker BYD has announced it will bring an extra 30,000 new energy vehicles – both full battery electric and plug in hybrids – to Australi…

Greece

ExxonMobil, Energean to sign contract for first test gas drilling off Greece in years

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil, Energean and Helleniq Energy will sign ​a contract on April 14 with ‌Stena Drilling to start exploratory drilling in a western Gree…

South Korea

Hitachi Energy, Samsung C&T sign grid MoU

Hitachi Energy and Samsung C&T have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand collaboration on high-voltage alternating current grid infrastructure worldwi…

Routing Energy, VENSYS agree wind pact

Routing Energy and VENSYS Energy have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to support wind energy projects.Routing Energy said the partnership will ex…

EU

EU signs off on €3.7bn Czech biomethane production subsidies

The European Commission has approved a €3.7bn ($4.36bn) Czech government funding scheme to scale sustainable biomethane production amid the net-zero emissi…

United States

PowerBank Announces 5 MW AC Distributed Solar and Battery Energy Storage System Project in New York

PowerBank announced on April 13 that it has executed a lease agreement on a 5 MW AC hybrid solar plus battery energy storage project known as the NY-Conklin Hil…

India

ACME Solar Holdings Achieves Full Commissioning of 100 MW Wind Power Project

ACME Solar Holdings Limited has announced a significant milestone with the complete commissioning of its 100 MW wind power project in Gujarat. The company's…

Norway

Equinor aims to sell 8% stake in solar energy firm Scatec

Norway's Equinor said on April 13 it is contemplating a ​sale of some 12.9 million ​shares in Scatec, representing around ⁠8.1% of the ​solar energy fir…

Botswana

Botswana signs energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman

Botswana's president has clinched multiple ​agreements with Oman, including on mineral exploration, oil storage infrastructure and renewable ‌power, d…

Electric Vehicles

VW to stop making its top electric vehicle in the US

Volkswagen said on April 9 it will end production of the ID.4 electric SUV out of ‌its Tennessee plant this month, citing a challenging time for the U.S. e…

Solar Power Plant

Qualitas Energy acquires 376 MWp of Polish solar

Investment fund Qualitas Energy has acquired a portfolio of nine Polish solar plants with a total installed capacity of 376MWp.The portfolio has been acquired f…