Investors have submitted bids for 3.1 GW of wind and solar projects, along with 1.6 GW of long-duration storage projects, in response to the New South Wales government’s latest tender for renewable energy generation and storage capacity.
The Austrian government introduced the Electricity Industry and Organization Act (ElWOG) two years ago, leading to the creation of a map of locations with available grid capacity for solar. The ElWOG require grid operators to be transparent about grid-connection capacity.
Renewable production supplied 61% of Portugal’s electricity consumption in the first half of the year, especially wind power at 25% and hydroelectricity at 23%, Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) reported on Tuesday.
Sweden’s Eolus Vind AB (STO:EOLU-B) said on Wednesday that it has filed a permit application for its 1-GW Vastvind offshore wind farm project sited in the
Rio Tinto will team up with Sumitomo Corp. to build a green hydrogen production plant in Australia as part of an AUD 111 million (USD 74.64 million) project to lower carbon emissions from the alumina refining process.
Japan’s latest procurement exercise was open to PV projects above 250 kW in size. The lowest price came in at JPY 9 ($0.065)/kWh, with 119.7 MW of allocated capacity.
Huadian Energy's new 1 GW solar plant in Tianjin, northeastern China, supports water-surface halogen production and underwater aquaculture.
French railway company SNCF has set up a renewable energy subsidiary that will deploy 1 GWp of solar capacity to help cover some of the group’s electricity
As more solar capacity has come online in California, grid operators at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) have observed a drop in net load (or the demand remaining after subtracting variable renewable generation) in the middle of the day when solar generation tends to be highest. When graphed for a typical day,...
Brazilian renewables developer Elera Renováveis has commissioned the 1.2 GW Janaúba solar complex in the nation's southeast. The facility, which went online this week, consists of 20 solar parks spread across 3,000 hectares.
Solar manufacturers have until Aug. 15 to submit PV factory proposals to the German authorities.
South Africa has started repowering and repurposing coal-fired power stations as renewable energy hubs, even as electricity utility Eskom says the need for baseload power may necessitate a lifeline for the brown power stations.