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Rooftop solar sends average South Australia daytime power prices below zero

April 30, 2021 Anand Gupta

South Australia has set a stunning new benchmark in the electricity market, with its big share of rooftop solar sending the average daytime wholesale price of electricity to below zero in the first quarter. According to the Energy Market Operator, the average price of wholesale power in South Australia between 10am and 3.30pm was minus […]

ACWA Power secures $114m to fund 200MW Egyptian solar project

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ACEN makes headway in Luzon solar projects

April 30, 2021 Anand Gupta

MANILA, Philippines : AC Energy Corp. (ACEN) is making headway in its solar projects in Luzon as it completed the first of its five solar farms in the pipeline. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, ACEN said it started operating its 63-megawatt (MW) GigaSol Palauig solar farm in Zambales, generating power for […]

Germany expands capacity in wind, solar power auctions

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Clēnera, with Risen, achieve on-time installation of 127.5 MWDC solar park during pandemic

April 30, 2021 Anand Gupta

NINGBO, China : Risen Energy Co., Ltd, a leading, Tier 1 manufacturer of high-performance solar photovoltaic products, confirm the timely conclusion and subsequent “ribbon cutting” ceremony at Clēnera’s Wapello Solar project, Iowa’s largest solar PV power plant. Leveraging Clēnera and Risen’s historic success, Iowa’s premiere solar installation was brought online, on time and on budget […]

Longi to equip 190 MW of solar projects in Malaysia

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Lessons from Singapore: How to generate solar power in a city without much space

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Singapore is utilising floating solar farms and vertical panels to increase its clean-energy supplies due to a lack of space. The model could be used in other densely populated land-scarce cities. Floating solar farms can generate more electricity than rooftop or on-ground installations and can protect lakes and reservoirs from rising temperatures. A floating solar […]

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Intel Malaysia runs largest solar farm outside of US

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturer Intel Corp has announced that its operations in Malaysia will harness solar energy to power its six buildings in Kulim and Penang campuses, making it the firm’s largest solar farm outside of the US. Intel said in a statement that its new solar farm panels in the country cover an area roughly equivalent […]

Solar and wind are leading fastest energy transition the world has seen

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Solar Applied Materials sees rising orders from clients

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Solar Applied Materials Technology, a Taiwan-based supplier of precious and rare metals, chemicals and materials, is enjoying robust orders from clients in the semiconductor, panel and storage industries. Solar Applied Materials is seeing strong pull-ins of orders from panel clients in Taiwan and increasing presence in China’s panel industry for supplying barrel plating products. The […]

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Technology in solar power transforms Indian energy sector

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Shashank Agarwal, MD, Salasar Techno Engineering, shares his views Renewable energy or solar energy is no longer a choice for increasing power generation capacity. It has become imperative to integrate a highly technological infrastructure to generate solar power and meet high energy demands. Being one of the most affordable producers of solar energy, the country […]

PODCAST Discussing long-duration energy storage, floating solar, the UK’s grid goes green

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Coal India inks solar power deal with GUVNL

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Kolkata: Coal India (CIL) on Thursday signed a first of its kind power purchase agreement for sale of 100 MW solar power with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam (GUVNL). The tenure of the agreement period is for 25 years. In its maiden venture into solar power, the world’s largest coal producing company in March’21 had won […]

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Suga’s green energy plan needs to woo older rural men to succeed

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Dictum that ‘all politics is local’ is nowhere more true than in Japan. Yuriy Humber is president of Yuri Group and founder of the Japan NRG platform, which publishes weekly reports about the state of energy and electricity in Japan. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has declared on the world stage that Japan is committed to […]

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Low-income countries play carbon leapfrog in green energy shift

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Expansion of Vietnam’s wind and solar farms is proving crucial to powering its economic growth Just as Brazil’s rivers supply it with hydroelectric power and faults in the earth’s crust provide Indonesia with geothermal energy, so Vietnam hopes abundant sunshine and a shallow coast will provide clean energy to drive economic growth. Like many low- […]