Category: News and Policies

July 26, 2024

Corio Generation has announced that its offshore wind projects in the Philippines have received green lane certification from the Philippine Board of Investments. “These green lane certifications are crucial for our project development,” said development director Alma Roxas-Aguila. Earlier this […]

July 24, 2024

Ukraine has been plying the renewable energy levers to keep the lights on, even as Russia continues to wage a misbegotten war on the civilian population. Now the energy consequences are ratcheting up. A significant new solar deal is expected […]

July 23, 2024

Framatome and Slovak utility Slovenské elektrárne on July 23 announced the companies have signed a major contract for the long-term supply of nuclear fuel to the Bohunice and Mochovce VVER reactors from 2027. This follows on from the Memorandum of […]

July 22, 2024

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in May of this year signed the Brighter Tomorrow Act into law. The measure expands the solar facilities that qualify for subsidy, and improve the level of subsidy, and contains certain miscellaneous provisions applicable generally expanding […]

July 19, 2024

DESFA recently completed the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and gasification station facilities, the first LNG site to supply a local natural gas network in Greece. The station was designed to supply the Central and Western Macedonia […]

July 16, 2024

Avangrid said it has started producing power from the first phase of the True North solar project in Texas, an installation the company said is its first solar installation in the state. Avangrid, headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, on July 15 […]

July 15, 2024

Hamburger Energiewerke (HEnW) and its project partner Luxcara will receive state funding for the 100MW Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub (HGHH) project on the site of the former Moorburg coal-fired power plant. Furthermore, Gasnetz Hamburg, the municipal network operator, is receiving […]

July 12, 2024

Bolivia has inaugurated its first biodiesel production plant in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, marking a significant milestone in the country’s energy sector. The government anticipates that the plant will generate up to $100 million in savings on fossil fuel […]

July 10, 2024

The amount of offshore wind generating capacity that is under construction or planned in the United States is in flux after two projects in New Jersey were canceled last year. Of the 7,200 megawatts (MW) of capacity reported in May […]

July 10, 2024

Queensland Hydro has launched a public consultation phase for its 2GW Borumba Pumped Hydro Project in Australia. The pumped hydro energy storage system (PHES) will be located at Lake Borumba, near Imbil, west of the Sunshine Coast, and is targeting […]

July 9, 2024

New data released by Atlas Public Policy and the CHARGE coalition confirms that Georgia’s clean energy commitments toward personal transportation electrification now lead the nation. This shift to Georgia as a clean energy core region has been fueled in significant part by […]

July 1, 2024

Mexico is ramping up its use of natural gas for power generation, with several plants coming online in recent years, and at least 10 more (Table 1) expected to come online this year, next year, or in 2026. The U.S. […]

June 24, 2024

A team headed by Prof. Stephan von Delft from the University of Münster has been looking at what effects different strategies for achieving a circular economy with lithium, cobalt and nickel for electric vehicles will have on the demand for […]

June 21, 2024

US solar and energy storage-focused design and engineering firm Castillo Engineering said it has been hired as the engineer of record (EOR) for 14 community solar projects in Illinois with a combined capacity of 56 MW. The company will be […]

June 20, 2024

The US energy storage industry saw its highest-ever first-quarter deployment figures in 2024, with 1,265MW/3,152MWh of additions across all market segments. According to the Q2 2024 edition of the US Energy Storage Monitor report by research group Wood Mackenzie, published […]

June 18, 2024

A leading renewable energy power transmission infrastructure company said it signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a Canadian group for electricity from a wind farm project in Québec. Pattern Energy Group LP on June 18 announced a 30-year PPA […]

June 17, 2024

DRI, the EU renewables arm of the DTEK Group, has unveiled plans for a wind farm road and a substation in Croatia. The Brda Umovi wind farm will have a nominal capacity of 127.5MW and construction is expected to start […]

June 14, 2024

Some €17.9 million (US$19 million) in grants will be made available for ‘medium size’ distributed-scale energy storage projects in Austria. The country’s Climate and Energy Fund has launched a new call for proposals for ‘Medium-sized electricity storage systems’ of between […]

June 13, 2024

Nevada-based utility NV Energy said it plans to add more than 1 GW of capacity from both solar power and battery energy storage to its generation portfolio by the end of 2027. The company, which includes Las Vegas in its […]

June 12, 2024

The International Grains Council (IGC) estimates global biodiesel production, including HVO, for 2023 at a record high of 71.5 million tonnes. This represents an 11% increase over the previous year, primarily due to growth in North and South America and […]