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Pakistan A Step Closer To 1.3 GW Renewable Project

Pakistan, where despite a horrendous power grid situation and ideal conditions for solar, renewable energy beyond Hydro has simply not been allowed to take root, might finally be moving towards a GW scale renewable project. The country’s grid has been paralysed with issues linked to its ‘circular debt’, leading to extended blackouts, and a stealthy […]

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Battery Storage Needs To Be Increased Six Times By 2030 To Meet Global Energy Demand

After their deployment in the power sector more than doubled last year, batteries need to lead a sixfold increase in global energy storage to enable the world to meet 2030 targets, according to the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) report. Growth in battery outpaced almost all other clean energy technologies in 2023 as falling costs, […]

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Green Volt Receives Order For Floating Wind Project in Europe

Offshore wind developers’ flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, announced that their floating offshore wind project, Green Volt, was granted offshore planning approval. With onshore consent announced earlier this month, Green Volt has received all its planning approvals and remains on track to be the first commercial-scale offshore windfarm in Europe. […]

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Australia’s Largest Tender Expected To Add 6 GW Of Renewables

The Albanese government today announced its largest single tender for renewable energy in Australia, with the first auction as part of the reliable renewables plan set for late May. The Australian government through the national capacity investment scheme (CIS) tender targets to add 6 GW of new variable renewable energy projects for the National Electricity […]

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Everything You Wanted To Know About India’s Biggest Rooftop Solar Scheme

Made For, Of and By India One of the biggest aspects of the PM Surya Ghar Scheme is the focus on mass markets, by limiting subsidies to systems upto 3kW in size. It is also meant to be a catalyst for India’s domestic manufacturing base for solar equipment, which has struggled to counter Chinese imports […]

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BII, FMO Lends BECIS US$50 Mn To Support RE Projects In South East Asia

British International Investment (BII), and FMO, recently announced a joint loan commitment of US$50 million to BECIS, an energy-as-a-service (EaaS) provider in South-East Asia. The joint financing facility will be used to fuel BECIS’ expansion and back their energy solutions across Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and India. This is in response to the […]

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NTPC Targets 3 GW Renewable Capacity in Fy25, 2 GW Thermal Capacity

NTPC Ltd. India’s largest integrated power utility, has set a target to add 5GW of installed capacity in Fy25. The move comes even as NTPC has dusted off plans to start adding thermal capacity as well, after declaring it would stop adding the same from 2025, back in 2021. The changes have been driven by […]

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South Africa’s Solar Adoption Gathers Pace, But Challenges Remain

South Africa has long been plagued by an energy crisis now. This has led to a situation where the nation faces rolling blackouts or load shedding as it has been called, for the past decade and more. It says something for the state of the power sector that a challenge that was predicted well over […]

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China Versus The US, Europe and Japan? Trade Battles Reach WTO

Days after China formally raised the issue of US subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the US and Japan, with every possibility of Europe joining in, have been reported to be in formal talks to form a loose alliance to counter the Chinese threat on trade. While the United States and Japan have joined […]

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