Storing excess energy in underground salt caverns in Kansas
Extensive salt beds lie under the surface in Kansas and the state’s Geological Survey is planning to use them to help address the challenge of intermittent production from solar and other renewable sources.
BloombergNEF says global solar will cross 200 GW mark for first time this year, expects lower panel prices
The analyst also forecasts strong growth for the storage business and a significant increase in PPAs for photovoltaic projects in Europe. It also said the newly installed PV capacity for 2021 reached 183 GW.
Philippines launches 2 GW renewables auction
The Philippines’ Department of Energy hopes to allocate 1,260 MW of solar through the procurement exercise.
Belectric builds another floating solar park in Israel
The project is the fourth floating solar array that Belectric develops and builds in Israel.
Portuguese solar plants – tendered and merchant – remain in limbo
One of the first items in the in-tray of the country’s new Socialist Party government must be to unblock Portugal’s seemingly huge appetite for PPA-backed merchant solar sites and to deliver the PV projects which were tendered by the authorities, to global acclaim, in 2019 and 2020.
Peru wants to tender 2 GW of renewables this year
Through two different auctions, the Peruvian government expects to mobilize investments of around $2 billion.
Botswana-Namibia green hydrogen project expands to 5GW
The raised ambition of an already huge renewables-powered hydrogen project in the Southern African nations vividly demonstrates the hydrogen and clean energy potential of a continent which accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s new solar capacity last year, according to trade body AFSIA’s annual report.
Germany deployed 5.26 GW of solar in 2021
The country saw around 421 MW of new PV capacity come online in December alone. Its cumulative solar power reached 56.3 GW.
Australia’s NSW declares massive 8 GW renewable energy zone
The New South Wales Government is forging ahead with plans to bring 12 GW of renewable energy and 2 GW of storage online by 2030 with the formal declaration of Australia’s second coordinated renewable energy zone in as many months.
Italy allocates 710 MW of solar in seventh renewables auction
In the procurement exercise, the Italian authorities selected 49 solar projects with a capacity of less than 10 MW and 11 solar parks ranging in size from 13.2 MW to 92.4 MW. The lowest bid came in at €0.06263/kWh and was offered for a 5.9 MW solar project located in the province of Perugia, in the Italian central region of Umbria.
