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NTPC announced on January 18 that it has been chosen by the Cuban government as the preferred partner for carrying out a 900MW PV project in Cuba. ...  more

Semiconductor material supplier TOPCO announced its combined revenue for December 2021 at a total of NT$4.27 billion, which is a MoM increase of 13.5% and a YoY improvement of 33.5%. The company attained a record NT$42.67 billion of accumulated revenue throughout 2021, a YoY increase of 18%. ...  more

Siemens announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Glory Technology Services, officially proclaiming the two parties as strategic partners. ...  more

High electricity prices in Europe are expected to ease. Bloomberg reported that China's largest liquid natural gas (LNG) supplier is preparing to supply natural gas to Europe, which is expected to ease the European fuel shortage. ...  more

On December 17, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) released its whitepaper: “New York’s 10GW Distributed Solar Roadmap”. ...  more

Taiwan Power Company (TPC) announced yesterday (January 19th) that the “Organized Reduction in Power Consumption – Flexible Nighttime Reduction” measure will be pushed up from May to March. ...  more

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced on January 10 that no new generation capacity based on solar PV and wind power will be incorporated into the country’s grid system during 2022 due to the existing infrastructure bottleneck. ...  more

Albanian news outlets reported in late December last year that AGA-SOLAR has submitted an application for a 150MW solar park to Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy. AGA-SOLAR is a local PV project developer, and the proposed solar park will be sited in Darzezëe e Re, a village near the city of Fier. The cost of the project has yet to be disclosed. ...  more

Australia has been achieving enormous results in rooftop solar installations at nearly 17GW, though the pandemic in 2021, followed by the lockdown implementation and supply chain cut-off, had depleted installations. In 2021, the country merely added 10% of new installations, which is 1/3 less than the anticipated amount. ...  more

Solar panels producing electricity, renewable energy concept The Polish Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) has released the results of its latest solar and wind auctions that were held in December. Through three auctions, ERO has allocated a total of 1.33GW, of which 870MW belongs to solar PV. Collectively, the tendered projects are expected to produce 13.9TWh of electricity annually. This story was initially reported by various renewable energy news websites. ...  more