The official ceremony to herald the start of the operation of Shangluo New Material and Battery Industrial Park was held on May 31. The new industry cluster is situated in the High-Tech Development Zone of Shangluo, a city in the Chinese province of Shaanxi. The total investment in this project is estimated to amount to around RMB 1.09 billion. ...  more

Although Taiwan’s development of EVs has lagged behind the global average, Tesla is still registering remarkable growth in the Taiwanese market, especially with regards to the entry-level Model 3, which has been selling like hotcakes domestically.  ...  more

Battery manufacturing giant CATL announced on June 17 that the first phase of its major manufacturing base in the Chinese province of Sichuan has formally entered operation. ...  more

NV Energy, a public utility that serves the state of Nevada in the US, submitted its three-year Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to the Public Utility Commission of Nevada (PUCN) on June 1. The goal of the IRP is to facilitate Nevada’s energy transition and ultimately attain carbon neutrality for the state by 2050. Included in the plan are two new solar-plus-storage projects that have a total generation capacity of 600MW and a total storage capacity of 480MW.  ...  more

To further cultivate the green power market, AUO announced on June 21 that it wouldjoin hands with Delta on fully optimizing the overall system maintenance of sites, as well as providing software and hardware integrated solutions for energy management ...  more

Tesla is currently discussing the possibility of sharing its Supercharger with the electric vehicles of other automotive manufacturers, which helps to popularize electric vehicles of other brands, as well as create additional profits for Tesla. ...  more

The results of the “2021 Survey by the National Renewable Wind Energy Team” recently published by the Taiwan Social Innovation and Sustainable Development Association (TSISDA) indicate that the public is highly receptive to the idea of renewable energy, where 80.8% supports the government in fully implementing the development of green power, and 73% is in favor of the government establishing a Taiwanese offshore wind team. However, over 60% of the public is also concerned about a crisis of power outage. ...  more

Foxtron of Foxconn announced recently that it has signed a MOU with San-Ti Group’s North-Star International Company and Kaohsiung Bus to develop their very first electric bus, “E BUS.” ...  more

According to the report of the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie, the installed capacity of solar energy in the US has surpassed 100GW, and the new installed capacity during the first quarter of 2021 had also arrived at a new height. However, the simultaneous increase in the cost of materials and modules of solar energy still imposes numerous challenges for the future. ...  more

Greek industrial conglomerate Mytilineos obtained an EPC contract from French IPP Total Eren to develop a new solar project in Uzbekistan. Named “Tutly”, the project is located near the city of Samarkand and set to have a generation capacity of 131.3MWp. The signing of the contract was formally announced by Mytilineos on June 8.  ...  more