Turkey introduces secondary legislation for storage
Turkey introduces secondary legislation for storage The new provisions are aimed at implementing the primary legislation introduced in February 2020. The Turkish storage market may reach a size of 1 GWh per year within the next two years. Turkey’s government has introduced secondary legislation establishing the procedures and principles to install storage energy […]
Panasonic to exit solar manufacturing
Panasonic to exit solar manufacturing The Japanese brand will continue to sell third-party-made modules under its brand in its home market, as it already does overseas, but in-house PV wafer, cell and module production will halt by the end of fiscal year 2022. Panasonic today announced it will exit the solar manufacturing industry within 14 […]
Former landfill to become largest US urban solar project
Former landfill to become largest US urban solar project Developers will build the 50 MW Sunnyside solar project on a former landfill site just outside of downtown Houston. A long-abandoned landfill site, located 8 miles south of downtown Houston, will soon become the largest urban solar farm in the United States. The […]
Naturgy enters U.S. renewables market with acquisition, plans $1.8b investment
Naturgy enters U.S. renewables market with acquisition, plans $1.8b investment The Spanish energy company bought developer Hamel Renewables, whose project portfolio includes 8 GW of solar and 4.6 GW of energy storage. Spanish energy company Naturgy has entered the U.S. renewables market with the acquisition of solar and energy storage developer Hamel Renewables. […]
South Korea may tender 4 GW of solar PV this year
South Korea may tender 4 GW of solar PV this year South Korea may allocate around 4 GW of solar capacity this year across two PV tenders, which will be likely launched in April and October, respectively. “We can expect the capacity in the first half of the year to be around 2 GW, and […]
What is distributed generation’s real worth for the grid?
What is distributed generation’s real worth for the grid? A thought experiment by UC Berkeley energy economist Severin Borenstein suggests how much rooftop solar could reduce transmission and distribution costs in the United States. California and other locations are moving to renewable energy at high speed. But even in these forward-leaning areas, there […]
Germany to tender 18.8GW of PV by 2028
Germany to tender 18.8GW of PV by 2028 The German government is planning to tender 5. GW in the rooftop segment and 13.5GW for large-scale PV projects. A first draft of what the amendment to Germany’s renewable energy law, the EEG, could look like has leaked from the Federal Ministry of Economics. pv magazine […]
Japan’s struggle to drive down renewables costs
Japan’s struggle to drive down renewables costs A nation famous for high electricity prices has seen power costs fall 15% this year, according to analyst Wood Mackenzie, a figure which will help attract $100 billion of solar and wind investment to 2030. Renewables will have to work even harder, however, to displace fossil fuels in […]