During the first fortnight of May this year (from May 1 to 14), peak power demand met or the highest supply in a day touched the highest level of 168.78 GW New Delhi: Power consumption in the country grew by around 19 per cent in the first fortnight of May to 51.67 billion units (BU) […]
Mitsubishi Power, Texas Brine Sign Agreement to Develop Large-Scale Hydrogen Storage
HOUSTON (ICIS)—Mitsubishi Power Americas, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, and privately-owned Texas Brine have announced on 12 May an agreement to develop large-scale, long-duration hydrogen storage solutions. The partnership aims to focus on existing sites controlled by Texas Brine, evaluating their suitability for hydrogen storage both in existing and new salt caverns. Texas Brine […]
Canadian Solar in Partnership With Energy Storage Optimisation Provider Habitat Energy
Canadian Solar has signed a new partnership with UK-headquartered energy storage optimisation specialist Habitat Energy. The company will offer Habitat Energy’s optimisation services for grid-scale battery storage assets, including its trading platform with route-to-market capabilities for wholesale and balancing markets to developers and battery storage owners. Habitat Energy’s services are based on its proprietary software […]
Activate Renewables Launches with a $500 Million Capital Commitment to Acquire Renewable Energy Real Estate
DALLAS : Accelerate Real Asset Management announced today it has launched a new joint venture to invest in renewable energy infrastructure. Activate Renewables will acquire real estate and royalty interests associated with utility-scale solar, wind and energy storage facilities located across the United States. “We are excited to expand our successful investing blueprint into powering […]
Lightsource Bp Secures Planning for Australian Solar Project
Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, and 50:50 joint venture (JV) with bp, has secured planning approval for upscaling plans for the Wellington North solar project in New South Wales, Australia, which was acquired from AGL last year. The 400 MWdc site is adjacent to Lightsource bp’s […]
Bitcoin Tests $49,000 as Tesla’s Musk Steps up Criticism, but Talks up Dogecoin
The Tesla CEO said he worries about “massive use” of coal and other carbon-intensive energy to generate electricity needed to mine digital currency. Elon Musk stepped up his criticism of Bitcoin as environmentally unsustainable while also signaling support for another digital coin and saying he remains a believer in cryptocurrency. The Tesla Inc. chief executive […]
Smith Renewable Energy Bills Clear Committee
Trenton – In an effort to expand the use of solar renewable energy across New Jersey, the Senate Environment and Energy Committee passed a series of bills today sponsored by Senator Bob Smith to increase the state’s solar energy capacity. “In order to achieve our renewable energy goals and become a carbon-neutral state in the […]
MUL’s Petition to GERC on Compliance of (Procurement of Energy From Renewable Sources) Regulations
MPSEZ Utilities Limited (MUL) filed a petition before Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) for compliance of the commission’s (Procurement of Energy from Renewable Sources) Regulations 2010 and its subsequent notified amendments. The petitioner humbly requests the Hon’ble commission to allow to compensate shortfall of 1.65 MUs solar RPO by a surplus of 20.31 MUs non-solar […]
Daqo New Energy Announces Long-Term High-Purity Polysilicon Supply Agreements with JA Solar
Growatt wins TÜV Rheinland’s All Quality Matters Award for its ARK battery SHANGHAI : Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) (“Daqo New Energy”, the “Company” or “we”), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, today announced that its subsidiary Xinjiang Daqo New Energy had signed long-term high-purity polysilicon supply agreements […]
Electric Vehicles Will be Cheaper than Combustion by 2027: Study
Electric cars will be cheaper to build than fossil fuel vehicles across Europe within six years and could represent 100 percent of new sales by 2035, according to a study published Monday. Carmakers are shifting en masse to electric and hybrid models in order to bring average fleet emissions under a European Union limit of […]
