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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

On December 12, 2021, a transformer fire in a Taipei substation generated heavy smoke, affecting the power supply system and tripped a busbar, and caused power outages in 305,000 households in Taipei City and New Taipei City. ...  more

Indian news agencies and renewable energy news websites reported on January 3 that Azure Power has completed the phased commissioning of its 600MW PV project in Bikaner, a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. ...  more

The government of New York City announced that it has acquired 184 electric Mustang Mach-E vehicles from Ford for use by law enforcement and emergency response departments. In addition, the NYC government is expected to procure as many as 250 Model 3s as patrol cars for the NYPD. ...  more

Major Chinese PV product manufacturer JinkoSolar (also styled Jinko Solar) announced that its newly-built cell production line in China’s Anhui Province formally entered operation on this January 4. ...  more

As pointed out by Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd will be working with TerraPower, established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, on the construction of a new generation nuclear reactor in Wyoming. The collaboration will be signed this month at the earliest. ...  more

HPE announced today that it will partner with National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology to launch advanced technology research and development cooperation on cloud, IoT, and 5G trends. ...  more