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Benin has obtained a $21.1 million loan from the investment and development bank of the Economic Community of West African States and Burundi will benefit from a $160 million World Bank donation, $100 million of which will be dedicated to solar energy. March 11, 2020Catherine Rollet From pv magazine France. The World Bank and Netherlands-based […]
Rebates are being offered to homeowners and businesses willing to couple small solar systems with energy storage. March 11, 2020Sandra Enkhardt and Emiliano Bellini The residential storage subsidy scheme in Lombardy has proven popular. Image: Solarwatt The Austrian government today launched a €36 million rebate program for small solar-plus-storage installations. Two-thirds of the pot will […]
Toshiba has finalized construction of a 10 MW hydrogen plant in Fukushima prefecture which draws power from 20 MW of solar generation capacity as well as the grid. March 9, 2020Emiliano Bellini The solar-powered hydrogen facility owned by Toshiba in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Image: Toshiba Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corporation has announced its Fukushima Hydrogen […]
The OneBox from Vision Mechatronics consists of a Lithium battery, hybrid inverter and solar charge controller to give a hassle-free solution for electricity backup in case of power outages. Users with excess solar power generation can save money with net metering by using its grid feed feature. March 2, 2020Uma Gupta Diesel generators are the […]
Galp Energia aims to develop a sustainable power project portfolio based on solar and wind. It will devote up to 15% of its total investments to its renewable energy plans. February 28, 2020Pilar Sánchez Molina Image: distelAPPArath/Pixabay From pv magazine Spain Last week, Portuguese gas and oil producer Galp Energía held a meeting to present […]
The Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition’s long-term auction was organized by grid operator RTE under the French capacity procurement mechanism. Storage accounted for 253 MW of the capacity assigned in the auction, which was open to all decarbonizing technologies. February 28, 2020Joël Spaes From pv magazine France The objective of France’s long-term auction […]
Batteries Published on February 21st, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai February 21st, 2020 by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai South Africa has been experiencing a lot of electricity rationing recently as the power utility, Eskom, struggles to meet demand. We recently looked at how these electricity blackouts have helped nurture South Africa’s nascent stationary storage assembly […]
The company has secured approval from the Berlin-Brandenburg administrative court to start clearing 91 hectares of forest for its first European “gigafactory,” which is scheduled to start operations in summer 2021. February 21, 2020Sandra Enkhardt Image: https://www.gruenheide-mark.de/ From pv magazine Germany The Higher Administrative Court for Berlin-Brandenburg ruled on Thursday evening that Tesla can continue […]
Energy storage provider Yotta Energy has designed a 1 kWh battery to be mounted under rooftop solar modules. Ten years ago, the idea of putting a microinverter or optimizer behind a rooftop solar panel was a stretch. Today, module-level panel electronics warrant their own initialism and enjoy an 80% market share in the U.S. residential […]
China, Hong Kong and Vietnam are the top three nations exporting batteries to India. Chinese imports were worth $773 million in the last fiscal year with Hong Kong shipping $267 million worth and Vietnam $114 million, according to the Ministry of Commerce. February 10, 2020Uma Gupta Paving the way for Make in India battery manufacturing, […]
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