Several coal power plants in the National Electricity Market likely to be financially unviable by 2025 Several of the 16 coal power plants in the National Electricity Market (NEM) will be financially unviable and at least one is likely to face closure several years sooner than planned due to coal plants’ poor flexibility and inability […]
Renewable Energy: Morocco Opens Training Institute in Ouarzazate
The infrastructure project concerns linking the electricity network of central Morocco with the network in Western Sahara. Morocco’s Minister of Energy, Aziz Rabbah, and the Director-General of the National Electricity Office (ONEE), Abderrahim El Hafidi, gave the update on the project’s progress on Friday, February 26, during a visit to Dakhla. The visit aimed to […]
UK says it will sell world’s first sovereign green savings bonds
The savings bonds will fund projects in areas such as renewable energy and clean transportation and will go on sale this year, the Treasury said. LONDON: Britain’s government plans to launch the world’s first sovereign green bonds for retail investors as part of its push to create a net-zero-carbon economy by 2050. The savings bonds […]
China vows 5-year plan dedicated to climate, but growth, security concerns weigh
Vice premier Han Zheng said in October that the 2021-2025 plan would be “dedicated to addressing climate change” BEIJING: China has promised to dedicate its new “five-year plan” to tackling climate change, but concerns about economic growth and energy security are expected to temper the country’s green ambitions. Vice premier Han Zheng said in October […]
WBREDA Floats Tender for Setting Up of 990 nos. Rooftop Solar PV Power Plants in West Bengal
WBREDA Floats Tender for Setting Up of 990 nos. Rooftop Solar PV Power Plants in West Bengal Design and engineering, manufacture/procurement, testing, supply installation and commissioning, 5years comprehensive maintenance for 990 nos. of grid connected rooftop Solar PV power plants, each of array capacity 10kWp on turnkey basis. The last date to submit the bids […]
DOE requires solar, renewable energy technologies in buildings
MANILA, Philippines: Solar photovoltaic and renewable energy (RE) technologies are now required in new and existing buildings after the Department of Energy issued a policy on the adoption of the guidelines of energy conservation. The DOE on Friday released Department Circular 2020-12-0026 that aims to promote the use of the energy-conserving design on buildings and […]
Juwi to install 6.9-MW solar-battery park in Australia
Juwi Renewable Energy Pty Ltd, the Aussie unit of German renewables developer Juwi AG, on Friday said it will build a hybrid solar-plus-storage complex in the Northern Territory. The “high penetration” hybrid power solution will be deployed for the town of Jabiru. In addition to the 3.9-MW solar system, the Jabiru Hybrid Renewable Project will […]
SJVN Ltd Issues Tender Seeking Services from Firms for 1000 MW Solar Projects pan India
Hiring of Services from Firms for arranging of Land, connectivity, Open Access & PPA for at least 25 years for setting up of Grid connected Solar Power Project of capacity 1000 MW pan India under Open Access Scheme SJVN Limited invites Online Open e-Tender Enquiry under single stage single Bid System (i.e. both Techno-Commercial Bid […]
It’s raining solar panels in the UAE: Renewable capacity set to increase fourfold to 9 GW by end-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 […]
Spain’s Iberdrola seeks EU funds for large-scale floating wind power farm
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 […]
