English solar developers prep for New Zealand
Hive Energy, Ethical Power Group and Solar South West have set up a joint venture they hope will lead to 350 MW of utility scale installations in a country which does not suffer from grid congestion and which appears to have an energy transition-friendly administration.
EU approves France’s small scale solar FIT plans
The European Commission has determined France can offer the owners of building-mounted panels with a generation capacity of up to 500 kW a 20-year feed-in tariff without breaching the bloc’s state aid rules.
International group offers $68m loans for struggling off-grid clean energy distributors
‘More than 90’ suppliers of appliances such as solar lanterns and home solar panels, as well as mini-grid installers, will be offered low-interest credit by an assortment of government-backed and privately-financed entities.
Uzbekistan flicks switch on 100 MW Nur Navoi solar plant
The new facility is the first of almost 1 GW of solar generation capacity Emirati developer Masdar is working on bringing to fruition in the Central Asian nation.
‘The chance to reset with a green recovery has now been lost’
Norwegian consultancy DNV today published the latest of its annual surveys of the state of the energy transition and lamented the fact so very little has been achieved during the last five years. We are forging ahead into a world that will be 2.3C hotter this century, predicts the report.
GCL enters ‘final phase’ of its great project sell-off
The solar farm development unit owned by the poly maker sold off 2 GW of photovoltaic generation capacity in China in the first six months of the year but has confirmed more sales lie ahead.
Solar+storage in the Russian Arctic
Hevel Energo Servis has developed a new solar+storage project under Russia’s energy service scheme to help independent power producers to sell power to municipalities with diesel power plants via a competitive bidding scheme.
Climate Change AI unveils US$2 million grant program
Artificial intelligence is already demonstrating its climate change chops, for example by analyzing satellite images to better detect and monitor methane leaks from fossil fuel infrastructure.
Bangladesh prepares fresh $50m solar home system roll-out
A government spending committee has approved the deployment of 80,000 home solar panels in the mountainous districts of Chittagong.
Malaysian utility agrees to buy power from 500 MW of solar plants
Ten 50 MW projects will be developed in four states after a tender held last year.
