A €15.2 million power-to-X-to-power hydrogen storage facility is being planned in Saillat-sur-Vienne, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The project partners want to use renewable energy from the grid and water to produce and store electrolyzed hydrogen. It would then be mixed with natural gas to power an upgraded,...
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The utility scale renewable energy tender saw wind prevail again, with 18 projects with a total generation capacity of 406 MW. Solar secured four projects with a combined capacity of 19.3 MW but did offer the lowest bid.Italian energy agency the Gestore dei Servizi Energetici...
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Self-consumption, the ability to isolate from the grid and provide power in the event of outages, and agricultural solar are key components in the 2020 revisions to Japan’s feed-in tariff program, reports RTS Corp.’s Izumi Kaizuka.From pv magazine 05/2020 From April 2020, the first month of...
Read MoreBelow is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA): “Following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other brown and black colleagues, friends, and family, we share in the heartache and...
Read MoreTigo Energy has filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Northern District of California against APsystems, saying it is “seeking to hold APsystems accountable for its willful infringement of Tigo patents related to rapid shutdown technology.” APsystems released its APsmart brand of...
Read MoreDEPCOM Power announced it has begun construction on the Altavista Solar project near Lynch Station, Virginia. The 113-MWDC utility-scale solar plant will span across approximately 720 acres and is being engineered and constructed by DEPCOM for Liberty Power Corp. Facebook is purchasing 61.6 MW of...
Read MoreForecasting load growth and planning the utility investments necessary to handle changing electricity demand used to be a straightforward exercise. Utility planners knew that customers in their service territory more or less shared the same load pattern. The only real wrinkles planners had to navigate as...
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Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean-power sector. As the technological and financial tool kit for providing affordable, reliable, appropriate and clean power to every household and business...
Read MoreAerial imagery company Nearmap announced the general availability of new innovation Nearmap Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mapbrowser, a series of datasets constructed from machine learning models deployed across Nearmap high-definition aerial images. The launch marks Nearmap as the first among aerial imagery providers to offer...
Read MoreConservative clean energy group asks Congress to prioritize clean energy to stabilize economy Washington, D.C. The conservative advocacy group Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions sent a letter to Congressional leaders asking them to pass the American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA), introduced by Senators Joe Manchin...
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