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Chinese integrated PV product manufacturer JA Solar announced on May 8 that its 3.5GW cell manufacturing project in Vietnam has entered operation and rolled out its first batch of products. JA Solar said that this event signifies that it has established a “closed-loop manufacturing chain” in Vietnam. Basically, most of the key products from wafers to cells to modules are now locally produced.  ...  more

Sungrow announced on May 6 via a press release that it has entered a supply contract with Solar Juice. ...  more

Energy company Essent and PV project developer Solinoor have inked an agreement to jointly develop a green hydrogen production facility that is powered by floating and ground-mounted PV systems in the Netherlands. Essent and Solinoor are both Dutch companies, though the former has been a part of German energy multinational RWE since 2009. This story was first reported by other renewable energy news websites. ...  more

Is carbon capture too expensive? British startup Brilliant Planet proposes a new solution. As long as a super-large industrial microalgae breeding farm is built on the coast of a desert, the powerful carbon capture capacity of algae can be used to capture and store carbon on a large scale at one-tenth of the cost. ...  more

Shinfox Energy announced its April revenue today. Beneficiary projects are recognized according to completion ratios. Shinfox Energy's revenue in April reached NT$430 million, an increase of 12.2% over the previous month and a 6.6-fold increase compared to the same period last year. Cumulative revenue from January to April this year reached NT$1.250 billion, an increase of 87% YoY from NT$668 million. ...  more

In order to reduce the total carbon emissions of the company, Taiwan Panasonic purchased the Ai-2 Gather commercial electric tricycles from Aeon Motors which were officially delivered on April 29, becoming the best logistics vehicle in its factory campus. ...  more

Guangzhou Tinci Materials Technology Co. Ltd. (Tinci) announced on May 6 that it intends to invest in an expansion project that will add 300,000 metric tons per year of production capacity for lithium battery electrolyte solutions and 100,000 metric tons per year of recycling processing capacity for LFP batteries. ...  more

The global offshore wind power market continues to expand alongside each country’s constantly rising demand for renewable energy, and was estimated to sit at a scale of US$27.33 billion in 2021. New development plans will introduce additional commercial opportunities for developing countries within the next five years. ...  more

The board of directors of Taiwan Mobile approved the major target of attaining net zero mission by 2050 today, and promises to submit a net zero emission plan to the Science-Based Targets (SBT) initiative by the end of this year. ...  more

Texas is committed to developing solar energy, with 120 solar power plants planned in the next three years but counterintuitively, Texas is ignoring battery energy storage systems. ...  more