CleanTech Report 2019.05.30

The €180m project is located in the municipality of Kouga in the Eastern Cape province and will comprise 41-turbines.

The World Bank’s board of executive directors have approved $200 million Renewable Energy Guarantees Programme (REGREP) to mobilise International Development Association (IDA) guarantees under a Multi-Phased Programmatic Approach (MPA).

In Senegal, renewable power generation company, Lekela, has announced that the first turbine has been delivered for the construction of a 158,7MW wind farm.

China will be ending subsidies for new onshore wind power projects starting from 2021 with renewable projects expected to be able to compete with traditional coal and gas-fired electricity by then.

India has shared details of large power transmission projects dedicated for renewable energy projects in the western parts of the country. The transmission projects are part of the Green Energy Corridors program that was envisaged to support the massive renewable energy capacity addition targets announced by the Indian government.

Maruti Suzuki India, the country’s largest car maker, on Wednesday said it would invest around Rs 24 crore to set up a 5 MW solar power plant at the Gurugram facility to harness solar power to meet its energy needs. The plant will complement the power generating capability at the manufacturing plant.

Pumped hydro can generate electricity to offset irregular wind and solar power.

Australia is likely to reach 50 percent renewables by 2030, even without a change to federal policy and despite the Coalition government scare campaign, thanks to the growing uptake of rooftop solar and the big pipeline of large scale projects brought to the market by state-based targets.

Vestas has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract for Ratch-Australia Corporation’s 227MW Collector wind farm in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Innovations in solar technology from creating solar skins that are more aesthetically pleasing for homeowners to smart solar water bottles and solar storage advancements by using bacteria (electroactive microbes) to store energy the future of photovoltaics and concentrated solar power remains in a state innovation.

Poland’s state-run utility Tauron plans to replace most of its coal-burning power plants with renewable sources of energy in the coming decade to adjust to European Union climate policies and secure future financing.

Eleven of the 28 EU states reached their renewable energy targets for 2020 in 2017, according to a report by the EU statistical office Eurostat. So far so good, but what of the others? We map the progress achieved by EU states so far.

Sonnedix has further expanded its presence in Chile through the financial close of $99 million (€88 million) in new non-recourse project financing which is being provided by CAF -Development Bank of Latin America, Banco BICE and Banco Security, for its 171MWp Atacama Solar PV plant.

The Argentine government and the country’s development bank BICE have entered into a partnership for the creation of a fund to finance renewable distributed generation (DG) projects.

Canadian Greenbriar Capital Corp., a developer of sustainable real estate, real estate blockchain, artificial intelligence and renewable energy projects, announced that it continues negotiating with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa) to move forward a massive solar power project in the southwestern shore of the island.

Morocco’s 800 MW CSP-PV Noor Midelt breaks last year’s auction price record of 7.3 cents set by DEWA in the UAE, with winning bid at USD 7 cents/kWh

The largest single-site solar park in the world will have an expected capacity of 5,000 megawatts (MW) by 2030.

The hybrid power projects will be spread over a vast geographical area and will use a mix of solar, diesel and compressed natural gas for power generation.

Five electric distribution cooperatives in Texas have signed agreements to purchase 7 megawatts of distribution-scale solar generation, providing an increased supply of cost-effective and clean energy to their members while increasing local system resilience.

On Thursday, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission approved new rules that restrict commercial solar development on millions of acres of high-value farmland across the state.

The City of Dallas entered into a new electricity contract with TXU Energy that will power all city facilities with renewable energy for 10 years — and at a 26% lower energy rate than the previous.