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Iberdrola has secured a long-term PPA from telecoms service provider Orange. The electricity will be delivered by a 328 MW solar plant that the Spanish energy group is building in Spain’s Extremadura region. February 14, 2020Pilar Sánchez Molina Image: Iberdrola From pv magazine Spain Spanish utility Iberdrola has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to […]
Since announcing that SunPower’s high-efficiency cell manufacturing business would be spun off into its own company, CEO Tom Werner has referred to the remaining company as “the new SunPower” – and that idea looks to be more than just a change in mindset, as the company posted a rare profitable quarter in the three months […]
Belgium’s Tractebel will build three floating PV projects at the 52.2 MW Batalha hydropower project, which is owned by Brazilian state-run power company Eletrobras Furnas. February 14, 2020Emiliano Bellini A floating PV installation on a reservoir in South Korea. Image; Hanwha Q Cells Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, a unit of French energy giant Engie, plans […]
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 4:45. On the money: 8 takeaways from the 2020 GreenFin Summit The protein transformation: hyperbole or reality? Conserving and restoring forests won’t be cheap and easy after all GreenBiz 20 Highlights Highlights from the plenary sessions at the GreenBiz 20 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, […]
This article was originally published by the University of Cambridge. In Tokyo, a householder consults her 60-page “Garbage Separation and Disposal” system to check whether it’s a recycle day for plastic bottles or for all other plastic packaging. In a coastal village in Kenya, an order has been received for 2,000 bricks made from waste […]
Built in partnership with Messe Düsseldorf and Energy Storage Europe, pv magazine’s annual Energy Storage Highlights 2020 special edition is hot off the press. Join us at the Energy Storage Europe trade fair and conference, taking place March 10-12 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Celebrate this year’s top five awardees at our Insight panel session with discussion […]
Water is the first ingredient listed on most household cleaners. It’s also the most dominant ingredient, typically making up at least 90 percent of these products, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Apparently, household cleaners and food waste have that quality in common. Food waste is comprised of 75 percent water on average, according to […]
Hello and welcome to Food Weekly. I’m Jim Giles, senior analyst for carbon and food systems here at GreenBiz. Thanks for signing up. (If this was forwarded to you, sign up here to receive your own free subscription.) We’re launching Food Weekly because we’re in a crisis that is also an opportunity. The crisis is […]
Last month marked a watershed moment for the reduction in plastic pollution in China, the world’s biggest consumer. Although the news has been overshadowed by other recent events, China’s move to phase out the use of single-use plastic is another positive vector supporting the global momentum that is building to slow retail consumption of a […]
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pig producer, and Dominion Energy, one of the country’s largest investor-owned utilities, want you to know they’re happy together. And no, it has nothing to do with Valentine’s Day. The two companies announced at the end of last year they are doubling down on their program Align Renewable Natural Gas, […]