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A new “agrivoltaics” initiative looking to prove the commercial viability of integrating solar power plants with agriculture has won the favour of Brussels. The EU is backing German renewable energy company BayWa, in a first-of-its-kind scheme that could be a win-win for farmers and the climate. In order to develop the project,…
London, United Kingdom: To accelerate the transition to net zero health systems, global healthcare leaders from the Sustainable Markets Initiative Health Systems Task Force are in advanced discussions with energy providers in China and India to scale renewable power across their supply chains. This is the first time that companies…
Bioenergy produced from agricultural, forestry and organic waste feedstock continues to be the main source of renewable energy in the EU, accounting for about 59% of renewable energy consumption in 2021, according to a new Commission report on bioenergy sustainability. Published this week as part of the 2023 State of…...
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On board China’s high-speed rail network, travelling at more than 200 kilometres per hour, David Fishman knew that he had arrived in Shandong province when he saw a field of dark, glimmering rooftops from the train window. Fishman, an energy analyst at the Lantau Group, an economic consultancy firm in…
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…
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…
