For a brief period over several weekends this spring, the state of South Australia, which has a population of 1.8 million, did something no other place of a similar size can claim: generate enough energy from solar panels on the roofs of houses to meet virtually all its electricity needs. This…
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Floating solar panels on reservoirs could produce three times as much electricity as the entire EU, a new study has shown. Solar panels are one of the cheapest and most efficient ways of generating electricity but they also take up a lot of space. Innovative schemes have seen them attached to…
Fenice Energy, formerly SunEdison, has developed single-phase and three-phase microinverters for residential and commercial solar installations. The microinverters support up to 670 Wp+ PV modules, with a maximum input current of 20 A. Chennai-based Fenice Energy has unveiled new microinverters for residential and commercial solar installations. The XT36 3-phase microinverter…
Swedish battery and storage specialist Northvolt has developed a sodium-ion battery it claims to be a “cost-effective’’ alternative in energy storage to lithium-ion or other technologies. The cell has been validated for an energy density of over 160 watt-hours per kilogram at the company’s R&D centre Northvolt Labs in the…
Spain’s Grenergy Renovables has unveiled plans for a major 4.1GWh energy storage project and combined 1GW solar farm in Chile. Announced as part of its company’s Capital Markets Day, Grenergy said that construction on Oasis de Atacama Chile has started in the north of the country. The project’s development is…
The components for a fully green-powered electricity supply exist, it’s just a matter of scaling them up. We break down how each renewable, from wind to geothermal, fits into the mix, and when we might reach that 100% milestone Renewables met a record 48% of the UK’s electricity needs in…
Macquarie Asset Management has today launched a new onshore renewable energy business, Aula Energy. Aula Energy brings together Macquarie’s 17-year track record of investing in the renewable energy sector with a strong local team experienced in developing and commercialising onshore renewables. Aula Energy will seek to build and grow a…
Renewable Energy Fund I has secured debt funding from infrastructure-focused lender Kommunalkredit Austria AG to back the construction of 51 MW of solar parks in Romania. The agreement will provide INVL with a loan of EUR 25 million (USD 27.4m), the fund run by Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management said on…
At its third Capital Market Day in Hamburg, Germany, Siemens Energy presented a strategic outlook to analysts and investors. The Executive Board outlined a clear path to create shareholder value along three priorities: Deliver on profitable growth, fix the wind business and maintain a solid financial foundation.”We are achieving consistent…
OX2 has handed over the 86MW Karskruv wind farm in Uppvidinge municipality, Sweden, to Orrön Energy. The site comprises a total of 20 Vestas turbines. OX2 will be responsible for the technical and commercial management of the wind farm under an agreement with Orrön Energy. OX2 and Orrön Energy signed…
