South African platinum mining company wants to deploy 75MW of hybrid wind-solar
South African platinum miner Sedibelo Platinum wants to deploy a 40MW hybrid wind-solar plant and a 35MW photovoltaic park to power its operations across several sites. The plants will be owned and operated by Sturdee and will supply power to the mining facilities via power purchase agreements.
Czechia allocates $177m for solar rebates
The funds were taken from the country’s National Recovery Plan in an effort to reduce energy dependence on Russia. A call to select eligible projects will be launched on March 22. Solar-plus-storage projects will also be entitled to participate.
Membrane-free chlorine redox flow battery for stationary storage
A US-Chinese research group has developed a full chlorine membrane-free redox flow battery that is claimed to achieve a round-trip energy efficiency of 91% at 10 mA/cm2 and an energy density of 125.7 Wh/L. The device is based on an aqueous electrolyte made of sodium chloride (NaCl) which uses chlorine (Cl2/Cl−) redox couple as the active material for the positive electrode.
World has installed 1TW of solar capacity
The world has installed its first terawatt of hardware on Earth to generate electricity directly from the sun.
India’s PV module production capacity could hit 36GW by 2023
India’s solar cell and module production capacity is expected to rise in the years ahead.
PV, battery, hydrogen park to replace coal plant in Australia
A multibillion-dollar solar, battery storage, wind and potentially green hydrogen project in the Australian state of Victoria is moving forward after securing backing from the Hostplus superannuation fund. The planned project is owned by Octopus Australia, under its joint venture with Clean Energy Finance Corp.
KAUST researchers achieve 20.1% efficiency in heterojunction solar cell based on 2D MXenes electrodes
The solar cell is based on the titanium carbide MXene and is claimed to have retained around 99% of its initial efficiency for more than 600 days of ambient air storage. The device was built using spray coating to directly deposit the titanium carbide flakes on the cell’s rear side.
India surpasses 50GW of solar
In the fourth quarter of 2021 alone, solar developers added 3.2GW of new PV installations in India.
Italy begins loosening permits for large scale renewables
The Italian government has decided to unlock 1.4GW of new renewable energy projects since the end of 2021.
World’s biggest solar-plus-battery project gets funding boost
Sun Cable’s ambitious plans to build the world’s largest solar PV and battery energy storage project in Australia’s remote far north are a step closer to fruition after two of the nation’s richest men provided support for a AUD 210 million ($152.2 million) capital raise.
