Swedish manufacturer Scania has developed a haulage trailer fitted with solar panels which could decarbonise existing trucks. Transport in Europe accounts for around 25 per cent of the continent’s carbon emissions. A significant proportion of that comes from heavy-duty haulage vehicles. Goods transportation isn’t something we can live without – unless we want empty shops…
AISIA has urged Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh that structural safeguards and tariff-based barriers are needed for domestic manufacturing to gain a foothold and establish itself. The body highlighted that the (solar equipment) “domestic manufacturers run their plants at 30 per cent capacities and incur huge unbearable losses.” Industry body…
Hero Future Energies, SB Energy and Aditya Birla emerged as the top utility-scale solar project developers in India in terms of installed capacity in the first half (1H) of the calendar year (CY) 2020, according to recently released report India Solar Market Leaderboard 1H 2020. Together, these three solar developers accounted for nearly 64% of…
Solar products company Q CELLS, which has dual headquarters in South Korea and Germany, has acquired the project development rights for a 429-MWp solar portfolio in Spain from Madrid-based developer RIC Energy. Q CELLS announced the move today after its downstream business unit had signed the asset purchase deal on September 18. The transaction concerns…
Dozens of solar energy supporters from across the country gathered at the headquarters of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to rally for an end to solar tariffs. Clad in yellow scarves and holding sun balloons, solar workers called on the USITC to grant relief from the harmful solar tariffs. ABOUT USITC The U.S. International…
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French renewable energy producer Albioma SA announced that a 7.4-MW/14.9-MWh battery storage project was selected for installation in the French department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. The Group, which is established in Overseas France, Mauritius and Brazil, has developed a unique partnership for 25 years with the sugar industry, to produce renewable energy from…
Moscow-based gold producer Nord Gold S.E., is a gold mining company with assets in Russia, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Canada will have a 13-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm with battery storage installed at the company’s Bissa and Bouly mines in Burkina Faso. The miner, also known as Nordgold, said Tuesday it entered into an…
GE Renewable Energy announced on Monday that it will partner with Helios Energy to develop a new hybrid solar + storage system in upstate New York, which is expected to reach commercial operation in the second quarter of 2020. Specifically, GE Renewable Energy will integrate two solar PV arrays built by Helios Energy with two…
India emerged as the third largest solar market in the world after China and the US. India’s solar installations reached 8.3 GW, including large-scale and rooftop solar units, according to a report by Mercom Communications India. The country’s cumulative solar capacity is 28 GW as of 2018. Mergers and acquisitions globally were steady in the…