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Nestle Inaugurates First Private Solar Station in Morocco’s El Jadida

The station produces 1.7 gigawatts of electricity per year, a project in line with Morocco’s renewable energy goals. Rabat: Nestle Morocco inaugurated today its first private station in the city of El Jadida, near Casablanca. The station covers a land of 7,000 square meters adjacent to the company’s factory. The solar station operates some 2,600 […]

Construction of 5 solar parks underway across Iran -EQ

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness. While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, wind only comprises 25% of the state’s energy mix this time […]

Central America’s Solar Revolution and the Rooftop Revolution in the U.S. -EQ

UAE Aims To Triple Its Solar Installations By 2025

The installed renewable capacity of the United Arab Emirates, which until recently was nearly non-existent, concluded 2020 at 2.3 gigawatts (GW), around 91% of which comprises of solar PV projects, a Rystad Energy analysis shows. Solar PV additions are going to pile up, especially from 2022, and drive the country’s total renewable capacity to an […]

Construction of 5 solar parks underway across Iran -EQ

UPDATE 1-France’s Total extends U.S. solar portfolio in renewables rush

PARIS: French oil major Total TOTF.PA , which is making a major push to develop its renewable energy portfolio, said on Friday it had bought 2.2 gigawatts (GW) of solar projects in Texas, adding to a rush of acquisitions elsewhere this year. Europe’s top energy companies have outlined plans to curb emissions and boost renewable energy […]

EIB provides €150M in financing for renewable energy investment in Bhutan – EQ

Sterling and Wilson Solar plans to train locals to make up for labour shortage

He noted that mobilising the workers, who have gone to their villages, back to the construction sites is a time-consuming effort Mumbai: Amid uncertainty over the return of migrant labourers who left for their villages due to the COVID-19 fears, Sterling and Wilson Solar is planning to train the locals to compensate for the shortage, […]

New Zealand Commits $25 Million for ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism – EQ