Hydropower supplier wins 200 MW PV tender in India with $0.041/kWh bid
SJVN Limited will sell electricity from a 200 MW solar plant to the Bihar Renewable Energy Development Agency (BREDA) under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
The Hydrogen Stream: big push from UK, European Union
U.K. business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled a new hydrogen strategy aiming at developing both the green and blue forms of the fuel. Furthermore, Thierry Breton, the EU commissioner for the internal market, has said Europe needs to increase its commitment to hydrogen and use nuclear to produce a decarbonized form of the gas.
France provides €50m for green SME investment in Bangladesh
Countryside SMEs, and particularly women entrepreneurs, will be among the first in line to receive loans to finance up to 70% of their clean energy investments.
Cooling PV modules with plants, coir pith
An Indian-Malaysian research group has investigated the effectiveness of several passive cooling techniques for solar panels, including the placement of plants around the modules or coir pith underneath them, both of which, surprisingly, offered good performance in terms of temperature reduction and power yield.
Large-scale PV finds footing in Slovenia
HSE, a Slovenian hydropower producer, is building two new solar parks. The project locations – on the grounds of one of its facilities and on a waste landfill site – underscore the difficulty of identifying suitable surfaces for ground-mounted PV in the country.
New PV facade design in Sweden
Soltech Energy has installed a 60 kW solar facade on the wall of a garage in Sweden that hosts 300 EV-charging posts. It features a steel structure to facilitate the flow of air.
Solar tariffs to be pegged to coal-fired power prices in grid-parity China
Solar glassmaker Xinyi reported Beijing’s plans as it outlined bumper first-half returns whilst warning investors the boost in glass prices seen last year is likely to be short-lived.
Israel’s national roads authority launches tender for PV plants at highway junctions
Three solar plants totaling 20 MW should be constructed at junctions located in Gedera, Beit Kama and Atlit.
Spain announces 3.3 GW renewables auction
The auction will be officially launched on Tuesday and will also include a quota for small scale projects.
US residential PV pricing fell 6.3% over past 12 months
Residential solar installation price declines have accelerated over the past year in the U.S. solar market. However, energy storage pricing has gone up, with Enphase taking an increasingly larger share of the market.
