MANILA, Philippines: The AC Energy group has acquired a 50 percent stake in a 50-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Pampanga being developed by Citicore Solar Energy Corp. (CSEC) In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, AC Energy Corp. (ACEN) said the company and its subsidiary ACE Endevor Inc. signed a shareholders’ agreement […]
Out in the cold: How Japan’s electricity grid came close to blackouts
TOKYO: Japan’s worst electricity crunch since the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis has exposed vulnerabilities in the country’s recently liberalized power market, although some of the problems appear self-inflicted. Power prices in Japan hit record highs last month as a cold snap across northeast Asia prompted a scramble for supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG), […]
BMW is the first in the world to use aluminum produced with solar energy
Aluminum production is a very energy-intensive activity, which means that the greenhouse gas emissions are prohibitively high for every ton of this metal produced. Solar energy will help reduce dependence on fossil fuels for aluminum production. First, to this experience, it has joined the company BMW, aluminum for machines which will produce the plant and solar power […]
CHANDRA ASRI PARTNERS WITH TOTAL SOLAR DG TO INSTALL SOLAR POWER ITS CILEGON PLANT
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (Chandra Asri; Jakarta, Indonesia) continues its partnership with Total Solar DG to build the second solar panel or photovoltaic (PV) installation in the Cilegon plant in Indonesia. The rooftop PV installation will power Chandra Asri’s warehouses, laboratory building and charging station for electrical forklifts, reducing up to 438 ton of CO2 emission. […]
Australia’s CS Energy, Japan’s IHI partner on hydrogen
Queensland state-owned utility CS Energy is partnering Japanese engineering firm IHI to assess the feasibility of building a hydrogen demonstration plant fuelled by solar power beside its 750MW Kogan Creek coal-fired power plant in the Australian state. CS Energy and IHI will prepare a feasibility study into the Kogan hydrogen demonstration plant concept, which includes […]
A brighter future for the booming solar sector
Solar power firm Constant Energy is rapidly expanding in Thailand and throughout the region using a business-to-business model. Rooftop solar panels are installed at an industrial site to take advantage of the larger surface areas. The solar business in Thailand is booming, as the government prepares to hit its Paris Climate Accords target of 30% […]
Rooftop solar power is on the rise, but Canada has yet to embrace its sunny ways
Canadians seem increasingly interested in living more sustainably, but one option that gets little mention in this country is rooftop solar power. “We have tons and tons of available roof space, plenty of land and a lot of sunlight, [but] we only have around 40,000 solar rooftops in Canada,” said Nicholas Gall, director of Distributed […]
Australia’s largest solar farm to power BHP’s Nickel West
Yesterday BHP announced that it signed a renewable power purchasing agreement to supply up to 50 per cent of its electricity needs at the Kwinana Refinery from Merredin Solar Farm – the largest in Western Australia. BHP said that the agreement would help BHP reduce emissions from electricity use at the refinery by up to […]
Potential of floating solar PV in Africa vastly underrated
Many African countries are heavily dependent on hydropower to provide baseline power, which is being affected by increasingly frequent droughts. At the same time, Africa is characterised by a very high solar potential. The installation of floating photovoltaics (FPV) in existing hydropower reservoirs however, could provide solar electricity to help compensate for hydropower production losses […]
Potential of floating solar PV in Africa vastly underrated
MIGA provides US $25.6m guarantees for solar to power cell towers in West Africa MIGA, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued guarantees of up to US $25.6m to support solar power generation in Sierra Leone and Liberia for a period of up to ten years. The MIGA guarantees provide protection to Escotel […]