As India’s energy needs are rising fast, the increased use of renewables in 2030 could save the economy 12 times the installation costs, when reduced environmental and health damage are taken into account, shows International Renewable Energy Agency’s roadmap to 2030, ranking solar as the country’s second largest source of renewable energy.
A smart-grid project combining PV generation and battery storage has been unveiled in Haiti. The project is the result of collaboration between the Biohaus Foundation and relief organization NPH Germany. The project will substantially reduce the nation’s reliance on diesel generators.
The island of Bali could produce as much as 115,371.9 GWh of electricity per year — far above its projected requirement of just 4,992.7 GWh per year by 2019 — and solar offers the greatest potential for future development, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) today announced the completion of financing for two 50 MW PV projects, to be built as part of the 1.8 GW Benban Solar complex in Egypt’s Aswan province.
Bids have been invited for 110 MW of grid-connected solar projects in the Indian state of Maharashtra, in two separate tenders with September 26 as the submission deadline.
A solar plant planned by developer Gaelectric on a site north of Dublin has failed to receive approval from the local council, according to reports from the Irish Independent.
In Argentina’s new renewable energy tender, solar came in second with the quota of 450 MW.
The Rocky Mountain Institute’s new report Positive Disruption describes pathways for the global economy to mitigate serious global warming through accelerated adoption of renewable energy, the transformation of our energy and transportation system, and improved management of agriculture, forestry, and other land-uses. Staying below two degrees Celsius of warming is not just possible the report argues but practical given the accelerating declines in the cost of renewable energy.
Only a month after signing a deal with Tesla for the world’s largest lithium-ion storage project, the South Australian government has inked a generation project agreement with U.S. firm Solar Reserve for a massive solar thermal plant project, touted as the world’s biggest.
As revealed in testimony against proposed trade action yesterday, the U.S. International Trade Commission’s Section 201 investigation is already having effects.
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