A giant green energy project on Western Australia’s south coast that dwarfs the world’s largest hybrid energy operation will have the capacity to produce the equivalent of enough power for the entire country, says one of the nation’s leading scientists and sustainability experts.
India is expected to install just over 20GW of wind power capacity between 2021 and 2025, a growth rate of nearly 50%, according to analysis from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and MEC Intelligence.
Egypt is planning to invest up to $4 billion in a project to generate green hydrogen via electrolysis, according to a report in Arab News, citing the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker.
Canada’s minister of natural resources Seamus O’Regan launched a four-year programme that will provide up to CAD 964 million (USD 799.2m/EUR 655.5m) for smart renewable energy and grid modernisation projects.
First Solar, the largest US-owned solar panel manufacturer, today announced that it’s opening a third manufacturing plant in Ohio in the first half of 2023.
The Queensland government has announced that it will establish a $2 billion clean energy fund as part of the state’s economic response to Covid-19 that will “supercharge” the state’s expansion of its renewable energy and green manufacturing industries.
The global installed capacity of agrivoltaics, or the co-development of the same area of land for both solar power and agriculture, has grown rapidly from about 5 MW in 2012 to approximately 2,900 MW in 2020.
Partnering with Glosten, a design and consulting firm in the marine industry, and PelaStar, developer of the tension-leg platform floating wind turbine foundation, GE is designing and developing controls to support an offshore turbine structure that could be as large as 850+ feet.
In recent weeks, the buzz around the potential for hydrogen to unlock opportunities to export renewable energy to the world has gone from a light murmur to a loud hum.
New renewable electricity capacity added in 2020 rose by 45%, compared with 2019, to 280GW, the fastest rate since 1999, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).