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The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has released a press statement noting the decision made by Suntech Solar Power South Africa to withdraw its court application to challenge the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme decision-making process.



ESI Africa

DMRE says Suntech Solar Power SA has dropped lawsuit

Strolling his church's rooftop among 630 solar panels, Bishop Richard Howell Jr. acknowledged climate change isn't the most pressing concern for his predominantly Black congregation—even though it disproportionately harms people of color and the poor.

Tech Xplore

Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth

Renews Ltd provides news-focused coverage through unrivalled insights into the inner workings of offshore and onshore wind, wave and tidal power and other generation technologies.

Renews

RCG bolsters Canadian solar team

BayWa r.e. sells 148MW Spanish solar

TotalEnergies unleashes 55MW French solar

Solar power is ubiquitous, and it is now also used to roast coffee beans. Italy is internationally renowned for its coffee and the invention of espresso, where the first café in Europe is situated in Venice, and the country is also the recipient of abundance insolation. Located in southern Europe, Italy has a relatively warm climate, with a low rainfall level during summertime, as well as a strong degree of insolation in daytime.

Energy Trend

Solar Roaster Appears in Italy

Billions of solar panels globally will soon come to the end of their lives, but when they get thrown away essential materials that are needed to make future panels are being wasted.

Solar panels: we need to recycle parts of them to use again and avoid a mountain of waste

The participation and ownership by citizens or members of a defined community in a renewable energy project creates local socio-economic value and helps foster more positive attitudes towards renewables.

IRENA

Empowering Communities to Reap the Multiple Benefits of Renewable Energy

Eurowind JV targets 1GW Bulgarian green push

Detentions follow import ban enacted by Customs and Border Protection on solar products containing materials from the Chinese company Hoshine

The Washington Post

U.S. begins detaining solar panel imports over concerns about forced labor in China

Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corp., have submitted an application to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia for approval to build five utility-scale solar energy projects throughout the companies’ West Virginia service territory.



Solar Industry Magazine

Mon Power, Potomac Edison Submit Application for Solar Projects in WV

Elon Musk called it the stupidest idea ever. The US and China are both experimenting with space-based solar power. The FT's Peggy Hollinger looks at whether space based solar power can move beyond science fiction.

Financial Times

How space-based solar power can save the planet

Organic-inorganic halide perovskite materials have excellent optical capture capacity and carrier conductivity. Perovskite solar cells, with amazing power conversion efficiency, show great application prospects. However, a large number of unfavorable defects, growing up after or during annealing process due to their ionic nature, would lead to sites of nonradiative recombination and accelerate degradation of device efficiency and stability.

Directional management of interface defects achieved in perovskite solar cells

To further improve its sustainability performance, leading building solutions provider Holcim Philippines, Inc. has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Blueleaf Energy, a leading renewable energy company, to deliver solar power to its plants in Bulacan and La Union.

PV Magazine

Blueleaf Energy to become Philippines' first cement maker with on-site solar power plant

President of the Republic of Malawi Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera this week presided over the inauguration ceremony of the Salima Solar plant to mark the addition of 60MWac of additional clean energy to Malawi’s national grid.



New solar plant connects to Malawian national grid, wins award

I spend more time than your average bear tracking corporate renewable energy procurements. Renewables would not be where they are today were it not for corporate trailblazers that have spurred on deployments, driven down the cost of technologies and developed new contract models. 

GreenBiz

The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance is now the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance

ENGIE (www.ENGIE.com) is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Abengoa’s indirect stake in Xina Solar One (Pty) Ltd. Following completion of the transaction, ENGIE will now hold a 40% equity stake in the Xina Solar One 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, as well as a 46% of the Xina Operations & Maintenance Company (Pty) Ltd.

Africa News

ENGIE completes the acquisition of Xina Solar One a 100MW Concentrated Solar Power plant in South Africa

India's booming solar sector is likely to meet much of the country's 2030 renewables target



Energy Monitor

Weekly data: India must boost its renewables pipeline to meet its 2030 target

The cost of solar PV energy has decreased a whopping 82% since 2010. No wonder then that solar PV installations in the C&I market around the world are booming.



Picking the right solar PV module for your business

More and more solar panels are popping up all over the world – and it's easy to see why: They provide clean energy at falling prices. Awesome, right? Well actually, there are also some not-so-green sides to this technology. We'll take a closer look at three big criticisms solar energy faces and check out just how much of a problem they are.

DW News

How green is solar energy really?

The first photovoltaic power plant in Tozeur, southern Tunisia has finally become fully operational after experiencing months of delays.



First PV plant in southern Tunisia to provide 30% of needed energy

A floating solar farm that’s equivalent to about 70 soccer fields in size has begun generating power in Thailand, reflecting the country’s push to achieve carbon neutral status by 2050

Energy Voice

World’s largest hydro-floating solar farm goes live in Thailand

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is accelerating the deployment of renewable energy in Kenya to combat the adverse effects of climate change.



KenGen’s plan to advance renewable energy in Kenya

A 1,200 hectare site in South Australia has been secured by a developer hoping to use it to build a 300MW solar power site with 3.6GWh of energy storage, based on a novel technology solution. 

Europe-headquartered renewables company Photon Energy is working to roll out the technology created by Australian company RayGen. It combines a kind of concentrating solar power (CSP) + solar photovoltaics (PV) hybrid that RayGen calls ‘PV Ultra’, paired to a long-duration energy storage tech dubbed ‘thermal hydro’. 

Energy Storage News

‘Unique’ solar-storage solution providers plot 300MW / 3.6GWh Australia project

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India to produce more energy through solar and other renewables than nation’s entire grid by 2030.


AlJazeera

India unveils renewable energy ambitions with big solar push

Analysts at Rystad Energy believe Southeast Asia could become the largest floating solar photovoltaic (PV) market in the world with several significant projects planned this decade.


Southeast Asia tipped to become world’s largest floating solar market

As camels munch on the fringes of Thar desert, an oasis of blue solar panels stretches further than the eye can see at Bhadla Park -- a cornerstone of India's bid to become a clean energy powerhouse.

France24

Greening deserts: India powers renewable ambitions with solar push

Taiwan’s Largest Solar Stadium Built with Daily Capacity of Nearly 6,000 kWh

India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting countries in different parts of the world at the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.

India, UK to launch global solar grid project at COP26

Major power outages could be avoided by tapping into a distributed network of thousands of solar-charged batteries across the territory, but companies and customers need financial incentives to support the grid.

Time to turn on Puerto Rico’s untapped virtual power plant

Major power outages could be avoided by tapping into a distributed network of thousands of solar-charged batteries across the territory, but companies and customers need financial incentives to support the grid.



As climate change bears down, Greece is upending its sources of energy and trying to reshape its economic destiny.

The New York Times

Greece Pushes Green Energy Transformation to Fight Climate Change

Malaysia solar crew partners on 500MW in Taiwan

Energinet, Dansk Energi release new capacity map

Indonesian company to buy 132MW Oz solar

South Africa prefers 25 for 2.6GW green sale

Solar Frontier Will Wind Down Its PV Module Manufacturing Business

EPC Subsidiary of POWERCHINA Completes Uzbekistan’s First Utility-Scale PV Project

Some people and businesses seeking to use solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles find they can’t because utility equipment needs an upgrade.

Old Power Gear Is Slowing Use of Clean Energy and Electric Cars

The world is in dire need of a large-scale transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources to prevent an environmental crisis. Thanks to recent advances in various scientific and engineering disciplines, solar cells have become a rising star in the field of renewable energy, reaching operational costs and performance close to those of the conventional electric grid.

New model better predicts solar cell output power in all weather

Greenbacker picks Borrego to build 160MW US solar 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres lashed out at Texas and Texans at a press conference last week, telling the media that “If Texas wants to remain prosperous in 2050 or 2070, Texas will have to diversify its economy and Texas will have to be less dependent on oil and gas.

Forbes

UN Chief Lectures Texas Based On False Premise

Lightsource BP unveils 298MW US solar project 

Green financing completes for Spanish solar site 

Reliance Industries to Acquire REC Group for US$771 Million

Clean energy generated by the project will be used to power businesses and assisted living areas in the Blue Eden development.



Power Technology

DST consortium unveils $2.3bn renewable energy project plan for Swansea

The Axel Johnson Group signs an agreement with Alight to build three solar parks in Sweden with a total installed power of about 90 MW. This will double Sweden’s established solar park stock’s energy production by adding Sweden’s largest solar parks.


Alight and The Axel Johnson Group to double Sweden’s solar park stock

Climate change and its consequences are becoming increasingly obvious, and solar cells that convert the sun's energy into electricity will play a key role in the world's future energy supply.

Metal-halide perovskite semiconductors can compete with silicon counterparts for solar cells, LEDs

The heads of seven renewable energy associations have called upon the EU to prioritise the diversification of renewable energy supply as a matter of urgency.

‘Europe must diversify renewables supply’

Nissan plans to expand Sunderland solar installation

Renewables | Solar

France’s Atlantique Offshore Energy has been selected to execute the full engineering, procurement, construction, […]

Offshore Wind

Atlantique Offshore Energy Scores Another Substation Contract

Barcelona-based Offshoretronic S.L. and its new Asian partner have unveiled a new fixed bottom […]

Fixed Bottom Offshore Wind Farms 90 Metres Deep? Offshoretronic Says Yes

EEW SPC to supply Vesterhav monopiles

Shell, CoensHexicon advance Korean floater

Spanish designs on innovative fixed-bottom foundation

Acciona Energia makes 850MW Brazilian wind play

Not even five years after their conversion from containerships to roll on/roll off (Ro-Ro) […]

Siemens Vessels Undergoing Another Conversion, Already Too Small for Next Generation Wind Turbine Parts

Rotech Subsea wraps up Saint-Nazaire cable job

Atlantique Offshore wins substation gig

German energy company RWE and the Ulsan Metropolitan City will cooperate on the development […]

RWE Targets 1.5 GW of Floating Wind Offshore South Korea

Rostock-based company EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH has received an order from the Swedish […]

EEW SPC Monopiles for Vesterhav Syd and Nord

Mainstream raises €90m clean power war chest

MunmuBaram, a joint venture between Shell and CoensHexicon, has secured an Electricity Business License […]

Shell and CoensHexicon Reach Major Milestone on South Korean Floating Wind Project

Two weeks left for first North Falls feedback

British oil and gas major bp is planning a new large-scale green hydrogen production […]

BP Unveils Plans for Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Plant in UK

Jan De Nul has awarded the ships agency contract to DHSS covering the installation […]

Jan De Nul Adds DHSS to Hollandse Kust Team

RWE forges 1.5GW floater alliance in Korea

Shares in Jiangsu Haili Wind Power Equipment soared on their Shenzhen debut

China Mints Its Latest Green Energy Billionaire

At the heart of Europe's bad bet was the belief of many gas buyers that they could do better in the spot market than they could if bound to long-term, fixed contracts, some of them take-or-pay.

How Europe Triggered An Energy Crisis, And Now Is Paying Dearly For It

Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has unveiled an industry first: a modular design to help onshore and offshore wind scale up to meet net-zero climate goals. The more flexible, cost-effective turbine may also play into new sustainability criteria for auctions.

Reinventing the wind turbine for a bigger, greener future

Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has signed an agreement with the Oceanic Platform […]

World’s First Multi-Megawatt Wind and Wave Hybrid Finds Home in the Atlantic

DNV has presented Stiesdal with a Statement of Feasibility for its semi-submersible floating wind […]

Stiesdal TetraSub Floating Foundation Gets DNV Statement of Feasibility

BayWa r.e. forges floating offshore ties in Korea

DNV approves Stiesdal TetraSub feasibility

Van Oord protects Seagreen foundations

Seaway 7, the main Seagreen contractor, has contracted Van Oord to install scour protection […]

Van Oord Joins Seaway 7 on Seagreen Offshore Wind Project

Swedish wind farm developer OX2 and Finland’s Bank of Åland Fondbolag Abp have signed […]

Nordic Partners Team Up on 250-Turbine Offshore Wind Farm Project

BayWa r.e. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ulsan City, South Korea, […]

BayWa r.e. and Ulsan City Sign Floating Offshore Wind MoU

OX2 partners on Finnish offshore

X1 Wind has christened its PivotBuoy ‘downwind’ floating offshore wind turbine prototype at the […]

‘Self-Orienting’ Floating Wind Turbine Prototype Christened

Enel switches on 353MW onshore in Brazil

Bladt to deliver Vesterhav TPs

European Energy sells 186MW Lithuanian wind trio

Wave/wind developer secures berth in Canary Islands

Siemens Gamesa has developed the world’s first project capable of producing green hydrogen directly from wind, in “island mode”. It can also operate connected to the grid.



Producing green hydrogen directly from wind now a reality

Ballast Nedam to deliver Dutch nearshore wind farm

BlueFloat forms New Zealand offshore wind partnership

Nordex swoops on 177MW Peru wind 

Pacifico acquires Polish wind trio 

The first of two High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) offshore transformer station topsides that […]

First Hollandse Kust Zuid Offshore Substation Topside Leaves Dubai

The US Department of the Interior (DO) has approved the construction and operations of […]

US Approves Second Commercial Scale Offshore Wind Project

OWIC launches military recruitment drive 

JLEN posts positive half-year results

RWE welcomes German coalition’s energy policy 

Vattenfall has awarded Bladt Industries with the contract to manufacture and deliver transition pieces […]

Bladt Industries to Build Transition Pieces for Vesterhav Nord and Syd

EDPR cuts ribbon on first Greek wind farm

OWC hires major wind projects head

The first steel has been cut for Seaway 7’s next-generation wind turbine installation vessel […]

Seaway 7 Cuts Steel for Next-Generation Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

Australia passes laws to boost offshore wind 

Renewables | Wind

Organised by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the fifth edition of the International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) will take place virtually next week from 7 to 9 December 2021.

Energy Community Meets to Advance Off-Grid Renewables in Pursuit of SDGs and Climate Goals

If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it wasn't marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, and mud mixed in? That begins to describe the complexity of the brine pumped out from beneath California's Salton Sea as part of geothermal energy production.

Sizing up the challenges in extracting lithium from geothermal brine

Using LOHC technology to enable the transportation and storage of hydrogen produced from the cheapest renewable energy source into Europe

Hydrogenious Is Using Conventional Fuel Infrastructure To Scale Green Hydrogen Adoption

It's a common farm odor, but for Connecticut's largest dairy operator, cow manure is the smell of money.

Connecticut's largest dairy farm taps into energy markets with a plentiful supply of cow manure

IRENA’s International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) held virtually for the first time, gathers global stakeholders to mobilise investments.

Questions over how to balance decarbonization with development were addressed at the three-day Astana Club conference in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Post COP26: Kazakhstan Proposes An Emerging Market Model For The Green Energy Transition

As Energy Storage Safety Goes Viral, Comprehensive Risk Assessment Should be Emphasized, Says UL

Electrical grids are almost always over-dimensioned to meet short surges in energy demand. Put simply, power stations need to have an excess number of generators only to be able to provide electricity during peak hours. This mismatch between power supply and demand and the inefficient operation of power stations lead to higher carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Moreover, distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar panels, which are becoming popular, only increases the supply–demand mismatch.

Scientists showcase the potential of demand response in reducing carbon dioxide emissions

BASF to set up renewables arm

Bob Ward, an adviser on two of the museum’s energy exhibitions, responds to a campaign letter expressing concern over its fossil fuel ties. As an independent and unpaid adviser on two of the Science Museum’s energy exhibitions, I was disappointed to see your report about the campaign letter against it (Dozens of academics shun Science Museum over fossil fuel ties, 19 November), which risks delaying the rollout of clean energy. The well-meaning signatories state that they are severing links with the museum until each sponsor from the energy industry “demonstrates a credible plan to phasing out fossil fuels in line with&nbsp;the Paris 1.5C target”. The museum’s Our Future Planet exhibition has two major sponsors, Shell and UK Research and Innovation, the government funding body that has provided support for many of the signatories on the letter. Shell has set a target of cutting all sources of its emissions of greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050, like many countries that have pledged to keep in reach the 1.5°C target. The company undoubtedly needs to do much more, but its plan so far has persuaded ethical investors, such as the Church of England pensions board, to remain engaged. Cries of “greenwash” every time the company invests in the pursuit of, or information about, net zero are unlikely to accelerate its transition away from&nbsp;fossil fuels. 

The Guardian

In defence of Science Museum’s sponsors | Letter

Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world's energy supply by mid-century. When combined with a global carbon price, these developments can catalyze emission reductions to reach the Paris climate targets, while reducing the need for controversial negative emissions, a new study finds.

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