Counsellor from 14 member states of European Union visited SECI and met Smt. Suman Sharma, MD SECI and senior officers. Both sides discussed about the current & future opportunities in RE sector & ways of working together.
The 27 countries in the bloc generated nearly 39 terawatt hours (TWh) of power from solar panels during June and July, up 10.9 TWh from 2018, data from Ember showed. PARIS: Solar power supply in the European Union during June and July rose to a record high in 2021, accounting for 10% of total electricity […]
The funding will develop a new low-carbon steel manufacturer in Sweden, creating 10,000 jobs. A new “green steel” venture in Sweden has been launched with bold plans to start production as early as 2024. The H2 Green Steel initiative will then scale up to 5 million tons per year of green steel production. It would […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing $361 million (€300 million) in financing to support the stability of Tunisia’s electricity provider Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG). The financing package is meant to support the stability of Tunisia’s energy sector during the COVID-19 pandemic in the medium term. It will […]
Several projects are underway in Europe to build turbines on floating platforms where the seabed is too deep for fixed structures MADRID: Energy group Iberdrola plans to spend more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) on an industrial-scale floating wind power farm off the Spanish coast if it secures help from a fund that seeks to lift […]
With the EV market doing well, industry and policymakers look to hydrogen to fuel trucks and freight vehicles. A flurry of new vehicle releases, increased grants and tax benefits, and plain old economics have helped electric vehicle sales boom in 2020. U.K. sales figures show battery vehicles tripled their market share among new vehicle sales […]
In a strategy due to be published next week, the European Commission will lay out measures to tackle the quarter of EU greenhouse gas emissions that come from the transport sector. BRUSSELS: The European Union will aim to have at least 30 million zero-emission vehicles on its roads by 2030, as it seeks to steer […]
The EU and U.K. have ambitious goals. Now the wind sector can turn its attention to delivery. Even for an offshore wind industry that is accustomed to all things being supersized, last week was a big week. On Wednesday the U.K. released its 10-point plan to achieve its target of net-zero carbon by 2050. At […]
Of its 54 countries, only South Africa has set a net-zero aim – and failure to revamp policies to benefit from a global low-carbon shift may mean Africa misses out on investment LONDON: As more countries, cities, investors and businesses set net-zero emissions goals, they now cover about half of the world’s economy – but […]
RWE forecasts 10 gigawatts of cumulative renewables deployments by the end of 2020; EDF has nearly 40 GW of wind and solar in its pipeline. Two of Europe’s major utilities have demonstrated the signs of a post-coronavirus lockdown recovery, highlighted by growing renewables capacities. EDF and RWE both reported their Q3 results at the end […]