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Renewable PPA for new solar project
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA has announced that it has entered into a renewable power purchase agreement that will enable the construction of a new 310 MW solar project to be located...
MENA region’s largest solar energy plant in prospect
Saudi Arabia’s Water and Electricity Holding Co (Badeel), a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund, has with ACWA Power signed power purchase agreements to develop a 2060...
AMEA Power completes US$1.1 bn solar and wind deal
AMEA Power, a fast growing renewable energy company in the Middle East, announced on 30 November financial close of its project to deliver 1GW of renewable energy projects in Egypt....
New Jersey township turns landfill into a clean energy asset
CEP Renewables, CS Energy, Terrasmart, Lindsay Precast and NJR Clean Energy Ventures have jointly announced that they have completed the largest landfill solar project in North...
2000 MW solar and battery storage for the UK
Black & Veatch has been awarded a lead role in the development of an initial 2 GW of solar and battery storage by UK-based developer Amberside Energy. Black & Veatch will...
AMEA Power to create West Africa’s largest solar plant
AMEA Power has announced the expansion of the Mohammed Bin Zayed Solar Power Plant in Togo from 50 MW to 70 MW, making it the largest solar PV plant in West Africa. The project is part...
Contract awarded for largest floating solar power project
SolarDuck has been awarded a contract for what it believes will be the world's largest hybrid offshore floating solar power plant, to be located at the offshore wind park Hollandse...
Waveswing trials exceed expectations
Inverness, Scotland-based AWS Ocean Energy has recorded ‘highly encouraging’ results from the current phase of sea trials of its wave energy device at the European Marine Energy Centre...
Skimming solar PV profits could ‘poison investment climate’
Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that plans by the German government to ‘retroactively or disproportionately’ skim off windfall revenues of the photovoltaic industry could lead...
Tripartite subsea energy MoU signed
Baker Hughes, Mocean Energy and Verlume have signed a triparty memorandum of understanding to identify and discuss potential opportunities for collaboration on integrated wave energy...
NREL-led breakthrough – a more efficient perovskite cell
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made a technological breakthrough and constructed a perovskite solar cell that is claimed...
US solar panel shipments reach record levels
US shipments of photovoltaic solar panels rose to a record level in terms of electricity-generating capacity during 2021, reaching 28.8 million peak kW in 2021, from 21.8 million in...
RWE starts construction of solar farm in Badajoz
RWE is still expanding its solar business in Spain. Last year it started construction of two solar farms in the province of Guadalajara, and the company is now realising a...
Small scale solar is changing hourly utility demand
The US Energy Information Administration reports that an increase in electricity generation from small-scale, customer-sited photovoltaic solar in New England is changing the...
NGK to install battery and PV combination
NGK Insulators has elected to install a combination storage battery and PV system at its manufacturing sites in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The system will capture...
Mocean starts new wave energy test programme
Mocean Energy has begun tank testing models of its 250 kW Blue Horizon wave energy machine as part of the EU funded EuropeWave programme.
UK renewables auction promotes move away from fossil fuels
A record amount of renewable energy was secured on 7 July 2022 via the biggest ever round of the UK government’s flagship auction scheme. The fourth round of the Contracts for...
Energy storage systems for huge solar-plus-storage project
Wärtsilä is delivering a 500 MWac, 2 GWh portfolio of energy storage systems to clean energy developer and operator Clearway Energy Group. The contracts cover five sites located in...
EIA forecasts increasing share of renewables in the USA during 2022
In its ‘Summer Electricity Outlook’, a supplement to its May 2022 ‘Short-term Energy Outlook’, the US Energy Information Administration expects the largest increases in electric...