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Apple’s first electric car "Apple Car" is rumored to come out early next fall. According to supply chain personnel, Apple has recently put forward stocking requirements to Taiwanese automotive component manufacturers including Hota, BizLink, CFTC, and Fukuta in accordance with the iPhone’s pre-ordering practices, and listed relevant industry companies into its first batch of supply chains. ...  more

California is set to cancel its years-long net metering policy, which allows photovoltaic panel owners to sell their excess electricity to the electrical grid in order to shave off a few dollars from their electrical bills. Although said policy is responsible for the surge in renewable energy installation in California, some controversies regarding the policy’s supposed “the rich get richer, vice versa” nature have popped up. ...  more

Spanish engineering firm Global Dominion Access announced in early December that it has conducted a capital increase for its renewable energy unit Dominion Energy. Specifically, Dominion Energy will receive a capital injection from its parent company and take on a new minority partner. According to the official press release about this event, the fresh capital will be used to finance more than 1GW of PV and wind power projects that Dominion Energy is developing in Europe and Latin America. ...  more

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) of the UK government formally opened the fourth round of low-carbon energy project tenders under its contract for difference (CfD) scheme on December 13. With a supporting funding of GBP 285 million per year, this CfD tender round is the largest one initiated by the UK government to date as it is set to allocate 12GW, which is more than the combined tendered capacity of the previous three rounds. ...  more

137 countries have now declared to attain carbon neutrality and net zero emission by 2050, with Taiwan also following the global tendency, while relevant discussions are also seen from the “Recommendations to Public Solar PV Policy” of SEMI this year. ...  more

After inaugurating two new charging stations, Tesla now owns 40 stations in Taiwan, exceeding the original annual target of 38. The total number of DC chargers for Tesla vehicles has come to 230 on the island.  ...  more

Taiwan Sugar has been actively responding to the government’s policy on green energy and circulation economy in recent years by stocktaking its in-house resources, accumulating external energy, and gradually implementing “solar PV” and “biofuel power generation”. The company pointed out that its solar power generation had reached 190 million kWh as of November this year. ...  more

Local Chinese media outlets have reported that Bidi New Energy will invest RMB 2.7 billion to set up a production base for ultra-high-efficiency HJT cells and modules in Qianyang County, an administrative subsection of the city of Baoji in Shaanxi Province. ...  more

Tata Power Solar Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has been formally awarded the tender for the largest PV-plus-storage project in India to date by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). Located in the state of Chhattisgarh, the tendered project will comprise 100MW of PV generation capacity and 120MWh of battery energy storage capacity. ...  more

Due to Taiwan’s active energy transition, Neo Solar Power (NSP) is optimistic regarding the domestic solar market. Next year, it will significantly increase domestic solar farm investment, expand large-size solar cell production capacity, and build its own energy storage AFC equipment system. NSP capital expenditures in 2022 are expected to reach NT$7.1 billion and was approved by the board of directors on the 27th. ...  more