On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced up to $579,786 in funding to Rio Tinto to support a feasibility study investigating the potential to partially decarbonise its alumina refining operations using renewable hydrogen. Conventional alumina refining combusts natural gas to achieve the high temperatures necessary in the […]
Volkswagen’s Electric Cars To Help This Greece Island To Go Green
Volkswagen has lined up electric cars like ID.3 and ID.4, as well as the eScooter Seat MOID.4 became the first zero emission police car for the Greek island. Volkswagen and the Greek Government have started the transformation of Astypalea into a sustainable and smart island. On Wednesday, the first electric vehicles were delivered to the […]
Element 2 Steps Up Search for City Hydrogen Hubs
Clean fuel specialist Element 2 is holding talks with local authorities and other key parties as it steps up its search for suitable sites to build a network of ‘city hydrogen hubs’. Over the next decade the North Yorkshire-based company wants to install 2,000 H2 pumps across the UK, including 300 in Scotland.Earlier this month […]
DTEK Officially Launches Ukraine’s First Industrial Energy Storage System
DTEK has officially launched Ukraine’s first industrial lithium-ion energy storage system, installed at the Zaporizhzhya Power Plant in the city of Energodar, with a capacity of 1 MW/2.25 MWh. The battery will store and dispatch electricity to the grid, as well as maintain the functioning of Ukraine’s power system. With this pilot project, DTEK intends […]
Climate Finance as a Way to Create Energy Access in Africa
Stories about climate finance are starting to flood the internet in the build-up to COP26 at the end of the year, but the conversations vary, depending on your geographic location. While financiers, power developers, utilities and everyone involved in producing energy can agree that financing to address climate issues is needed, the exact parameters vary. […]
KSTAR to complete 600kwp rooftop PV project in Melaka, Malaysia
KSTAR has continued its renewables deployment targets in Malaysia this year. With 600 kwp rooftop PV project installed with string inverters KSG-120CL already under electricity generation at Lekok Paper, Melaka in the country, KSTAR said it will develop more renewables in the near future . The company has shipped many string solar inverters to the […]
Oman to host world’s first solar-powered Direct Air Capture project
44.01 kicks off construction work on decarbonisation plant at Khazaen Economic City. In a major breakthrough for the country’s nascent, but promising, decarbonisation efforts, an Omani start-up has announced plans to establish the world’s first solar-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) project here in the Sultanate. The landmark initiative aims to capture carbon dioxide (C02) — […]
Global wind industry could install almost 1 TW of new capacity by 2030, report says
China’s target of having 1,200 GW of wind and solar by 2030 could result in 408 GW of new wind capacity from 2021 to 2030, almost half of the global total, the report said. LONDON: The global wind industry could install nearly 1 terawatt (TW) of new capacity between now and 2030, with much of […]
Malaysia’s solar capacity could cross 4GW in 2030, Fitch estimates
MALAYSIA’S solar capacity could more than quadruple to surpass 4 gigawatts (GW) in 2030, up from the 996 megawatts (MW) level it was at at the end of last year, analysts have estimated. The projection, revised from an earlier estimate of 1.7GW by 2029, would take solar power to more than 7.5 per cent of […]
Mytilineos heightens focus on solar in bid to reach 3GW of capacity by 2030
Mytilineos is looking to transfer its global experience of solar and storage project development to help decarbonise the Greek electrical system and hit 3GW of PV capacity by 2030. The industrial group earlier this month acquired 1.48GW of Greek solar parks as part of efforts to expand the company’s new renewables and storage development business […]