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Saudi Arabia Issues Tender for 1.515 GW Solar Capacity

The deadline for developers to express intention to participate in the procurement exercise is on February 14. Saudi Arabia’s Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) has issued an expression of interest for the development and construction of seven new solar PV independent power producer  (IPP) projects with a combined potential capacity of 1.515 GW. The […]

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Poland Aid to LG Chem EV Battery Plant Gets EU Approval

The investment aid will support LG Chem’s €325 million investment in a new vertically integrated manufacturing plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries in Poland. Poland’s €36 million (Rs 293 crore) investment aid to chemical company LG Chem, a part of one of Korea’s biggest company the LG Corp for a new electric vehicle batteries […]

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Sunnova Expands Solar Plus Storage Services in New York

The company has expanded its service in New York to give homeowners access to Sunnova SunSafe solar energy generation and home battery storage service. Sunnova Energy Corporation, residential solar-plus-storage service providers, announced it has expanded its service in New York to give homeowners access to Sunnova SunSafe solar energy generation and home battery storage service. […]

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Corporate Clean Energy Buying Surged to New Record in 2018 : BNEF

Corporations bought a record amount of clean energy through power purchase agreements (PPA) in 2018, shattering the previous record set in 2017 a new report by BNEF found.   BloombergNEF has revealed in its 1H 2019 Corporate Energy Market Outlook, that around 13.4 GW of clean energy contracts were signed by 121 corporations in 21 different […]

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Liberty Global to Trial Turning Broadband Infrastructure into EV Charging Stations

Liberty hopes to have up to six trial charging points set up by mid-April. UK-based Liberty Global, the parent firm of Virgin Media is testing a secondary use for its broadband infrastructure using street-side boxes that link internet connections from exchanges to homes and businesses to build electric vehicle charging stations in the U.K. The […]

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Volkswagen Will Convert its Components Plant to Develop EV Charging Stations

The planned transition to e-mobility will allow the plant to accomplish the urgently needed transformation and will contribute to safeguarding employment and sustainably strengthening the financial situation of the Hanover components plant. Volkswagen Group has announced that it plans to start mass production of flexible and fast electric vehicle charging stations by 2020, and the […]

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China Added 44.3 GW of Solar and 20.59 GW of Wind Capacity in 2018

Total capacity, including hydro and biomass as well as solar energy and wind power, rose to 728 GW by end-2018, the NEA said during a briefing. According to official numbers, China’s renewable energy capacity increased by 12 percent in 2018 year-on-year compared to 2017. The leading country in the world for both solar and wind […]

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Kazakhstan Launches Largest Solar Power Plant in Central Asia

The 100 MW solar plant, implemented in a short time was developed using 300,000 solar modules from Canadian Solar, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The opening ceremony of the SES Saran solar power plant was recently held in the industrial center of the Saran, Kazakhstan. With the commissioning of the plant, the […]

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Self-Assembling Nanomaterials Offer Affordable Harnessing of Solar Power

To develop the materials, researchers combined various versions of two frequently used industrial dyes diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and rylene. New nanomaterials developed by researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY) could provide a pathway to more efficient and potentially affordable harvesting of solar energy. […]

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