Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Germany has received approval from the municipal council of Öhningen for a ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) park. The company’s application to construct the solar PV facility on Lake Constance in the Schienen area was accepted
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Voltalia, a French renewable energy company, intends to construct a solar PV cluster with a capacity of more than 1.5 GW in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Voltalia, located in the Arinos region, is developing a solar cluster for its own use as well as for third parties. The company has already formed alliances with a number of companies, including CTG Brasil, which will purchase a significant portion of the solar sites once the development phase is completed.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) in the US has awarded three utility-scale solar photovoltaic projects to CS Energy, an Australian energy company. The three projects have a combined capacity of 270 MWac or 365 MWdc and were selected by NYSERDA as part of its fifth annual Renewable Energy Standard request for proposals.
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The c-Si module market shift to mono-Si continued in parallel with the implementation of innumerable module products deploying more and more M10, and M12 wafer formats together with bifacial module technology. Efficiency improvements in PERC technology and the deployment of large wafers in large modules resulted in higher average module efficiencies.
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Strong solar module demand will continue to prop up component prices and place upward pressure on solar capital costs through the near term. Upstream polysilicon production will fail to meet strong demand over the near term, pushing up the price of modules and inflating solar CapEx over 2022. However, new production capacity additions across the solar module value chain will boost supply in the market, stabilising prices before returning CapEx to a downward trend in 2023.
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Agilitas Energy, a US-based energy asset developer, has raised $350 million in equity capital to construct a national renewable energy and storage platform. CarVal Investors, a global alternative investment company, managed the two-tiered investment. The funds will be used by Agilitas Energy to accelerate the development, construction, and operation of distributed and utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage projects in the US.
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Following a spectacular 2020, resulting in 11.9 GW of added solar capacity and catapulting the country into the top 3 solar markets globally, the PV sector in Vietnam saw a dramatic collapse in 2021. Taiwan reached the GW level for the first time in 2019, adding 1.41 GW, which is equal to an annual growth of 45% and results in a total cumulative capacity above 4 GW. On the cumulative side, Taiwan had 7.7 GW of solar PV installation at the end of 2021, 12% short of its target.
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With a $276 million investment, Spanish utility Naturgy has begun construction of a 300 MWdc solar photovoltaic (PV) facility in Texas. The 7V Solar Ranch plant is being developed on more than 800 hectares of land in Fayette County and is expected to be operational by 2023. The project marks the beginning of the development of the solar and energy storage portfolio that Naturgy bought from Hamel Renewables in 2021.
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According to the Secretary-General of Algeria’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Renewable Energy, 111 investors from 15 countries have expressed interest in participating in the tenders for the deployment of 1 GWp of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Algeria. The country, according to Bouziane, is betting on renewable energy, particularly solar power, as an alternative for fossil fuels.
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The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has invited developers to submit expressions of interest (EOIs) for a 1.5 GW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Abu Dhabi. The Al Ajban Solar PV project would be built in the Ajban area of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The solar project will have the capacity to power nearly 160,000 homes across the UAE once it is operational, displacing more than 2.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
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Risen Energy Co., Ltd., a Chinese solar module manufacturer, has secured the contract to provide TITAN 650 W PV modules to Sinopec’s green hydrogen demonstration project in Kuqa County, Xinjiang, China. Once completed, the 361 MW project will be the world’s largest PV-based hydrogen manufacturing facility, and it is being hailed as a breakthrough in China’s efforts to transform its huge traditional energy producers.
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Currently, installed solar energy capacity in Morocco amounts to 760 MW approx., of which about 200 MW is photovoltaic. Morocco aims to reduce the country’s dependence on commodities imports and exploit national wind and solar potential. The New Energy Strategy approved by the Moroccan Government has set an ambitious target of 52% share of renewables on total installed capacity by 2030. Small-scale PV is expected to play a pivotal role in achieving the country’s goals; nonetheless, is Morocco ready?
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India-based ACME Solar Private Limited has launched a 50-50 joint venture with Scatec, a company based in Norway to design, construct, build, and operate a large-scale green ammonia production facility in Oman. The facility’s initial phase is projected to produce 100,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year, and it will be expanded to 1.2 million tonnes per year with around 3.5 GW of electrolyser capacity, which will be powered by a solar PV plant with a capacity of 5.5 GWp.
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According to a new report from the HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences, and German consumer association Verbraucherzentrale NRW, more than 190,000 plug-in solar devices have been installed in Germany in recent years. Up to 128,000 photovoltaic systems with a total output of up to 51 MW were installed in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
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SUSI Partners, a Swiss fund manager, has launched a solar photovoltaic (PV) development platform in Italy through its Energy Transition Fund (SETF). The platform aims to deploy 500 MW of utility-scale solar PV after selecting the country. It is being developed in collaboration with a senior management team from a seasoned sustainable energy developer, with intentions to develop, build, and operate PV projects.
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Lightsource BP, a joint venture between Lightsource and BP, has signed an agreement to develop 400 MWp of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Italy with two Italian firms. The company seeks new opportunities in the central and northern Italian areas to diversify its portfolio geographically.
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The Ministry of Ecological Transition in France has released fresh solar and wind energy deployment data for the third quarter of 2021. The sector has installed solar power totalling 2,034 MW in the first nine months of 2021, compared to 761 MW in the same period of 2020.
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As everywhere else in the world, the uptake of PV technology in India will generate waste. It is therefore important to carry out an assessment of PV waste generation over the next decades to provide solutions for a sustainable energy economy and to prevent adverse environmental impacts which could arise from the wrong practices of disposal of end-of-life PV modules and their components. The report, “PV Waste Management in India: Comparative Analysis of State of Play & Recommendations” provides key insights on this theme.
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