Court halts restart of Japanese reactors
Plans to restart two reactors in western Japan have been stopped despite green light from nuclear regulator. News comes in the wake of India’s pro-nuclear trade agreements.
Labour pledges to remove carbon from UK electricity supply
To achieve decarbonization through PV alone would require an extra 100 million panels in the next 15 years. Labour would make decarbonization by 2030 a legal requirement, if elected on May 7.
SPI to acquire 50 MW UK solar pipeline
Chinese-headquartered solar group signs development rights agreement with project owner Global Renewable Construction Limited Group to acquire PV pipeline across U.K.
Thin film to power drones
Silent Falcon UAV will be powered by Ascent Solar cells. Drone has a range of ‘commercial, public safety and defense applications.’
Enphase signs supply partnership with PetersenDean
Collaboration created as part of PetersenDean’s pledge to source only American-made PV products under the Solar4America initiative, designed to support the U.S. domestic solar sector.
Russian banks set to seize Crimean solar power plants
Update: Saddled with massive debts estimated at $870 million following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and a dramatic cut in feed-in tariffs, solar plants in the region have been unable to pay back outstanding loans and now face foreclosure.
Swiss battery maker joins Azores grid project
Leclanche’s lith-ion batteries will form part of MW-scale renewables-plus-storage project. Swiss company’s Danish shareholder will also finance the project to the tune of $3.7m.
Scatec announces South Africa projects
Norwegian developer has announced three contract wins under much-delayed round of national power auction. No details emerged as to how state utility Eskom has overcome publicized grid constraints.
Utility aims to bring P2G power to the US
SoCalGas wants to use its existing natural gas infrastructure to store excess renewables power. Under P2G, renewable electricity is used to make synthetic equivalent of natural gas.
Shunfeng JV with state-owned aerospace company
Cheng Kin Ming’s ambitious eco-city plans will be aided by state-owned group of more than 200 member companies across a range of sectors.
