Verbund AG has acquired 4.5GW of PV and wind power projects in Spain from Q-Energy Group. ...  more

Foxconn and Lordstown Motors, a commercial electric light truck supplier, announced today that the two parties have officially completed the signing of an OEM manufacturing agreement and a joint venture development agreement, officially acquiring Foxconn’s first electric vehicle manufacturing base in North Americ and finalizing Lordstown to become Foxconni's first mass-produced commercial vehicle customer. ...  more

Tesla has stopped production in its Shanghai factory once again. It wasn't directly due to the pandemic; rather, it was due to a component shortage. According to Reuters, Tesla began to halt production lines starting from Monday (5/9).  ...  more

Small modular reactors (SMRs) can be said to be one of the future trends of the fourth generation of nuclear energy. They are cheaper and more mobile than traditional reactor designs. ...  more

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced today that it has joined hands with domestic manufacturers and released the first supercapacitor carrier in Taiwan that replaces lead-acid batteries with graphene, which drastically reduces 90% of charging time for electric carriers, as well as elevates 30% of carrying capacity, and overcomes insufficient horsepower on slopes. The carrier is regarded as a revolutionary green energy solution, and has now hit the road at the Xiluo fruit and vegetable market. ...  more

Trend Micro, a leader in network security solutions, announced in early May the establishment of VicOne, a new vehicle information security company which focuses on assisting the electric vehicle industry in building information security protection and will also fully assist Taiwan's electric vehicle supply chain partners to pass vehicle information security standards required by international car manufacturers, strengthen global competitiveness, and work together to gain a place in the future car market. ...  more

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