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First Solar to Power Zorlu Enerji’s 100MW Solar Power Plant in Pakistan

published: 2017-12-21 9:37

First Solar, Inc. has announced that it is supplying over 860,000 high-performance thin film modules to power a 100 megawatt (MW)AC utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant developed by Zorlu Enerji in Pakistan. The Indep... more

Taiwan’s Government Releases the Final Version of the 2018 FIT Scheme and Announces a 3% Bonus for Rooftop Solar

published: 2017-12-21 9:33

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has released its final version of the 2018 FIT scheme for the renewable energy industries on 14 December. For the first half of next year, the rate for 1-20kW solar PV projects is set a... more

Production Capacity of EV Batteries to Reach 268GW in 2020 Due to Rising Demand, Says Report

published: 2017-12-19 14:04

A report recently released by the energy industry consultancy group Wood Mackenzie forecasts that the global production capacity for batteries used in electric vehicles (EV) may reach 268GW in 2020. As countries worldwide encourag... more

GE Wins Thailand’s Largest Renewable Energy Contract to Date With a 270MW Wind Turbine Package

published: 2017-12-19 14:00

GE Renewable Energy and GE Power, subsidiaries of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co. (GE), announced on 13 December that they secured a contract to provide wind turbines with a total capacity generation of 270MW to Thepara... more

Mexico May Become Largest Distributed Solar Power Market in Latin America

published: 2017-12-18 13:32

Thanks to favorable institutional environment, Mexico is likely to become the largest distributed solar power market in Latin America. Manan Parikh, solar-energy analyst at GTM Research, predicted that decision by Mexican regulato... more

China's Largest Floating PV Power Station Scheduled for Launch Next May

published: 2017-12-18 13:26

Half a year after ground breaking in July, a giant floating PV power station situated in Anhui Province, the largest such facility worldwide to date, has been in partial operation, following grid-connection power generation of som... more

China's NEA: By 2030, Non-Fossil Fuel Power Generation Will Occupy 50% of Total Power Generation

published: 2017-12-15 14:40

During the second summit of China's EV Charging Services, Exchange Batteries & Innovation, on December 9, Liu Pao-hua, deputy director general of China's National Energy Administration (NEA), expressed that the use of fossil energ... more

S. Korea's Newly Developed Mg2Sn Negative Electrode Material Highlights Mg-ion Battery's Advantages

published: 2017-12-15 13:23

National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea announced on December 10, 2017, that Professor Song Seung-wan and his research team in Chungnam National University has developed a new innovative negative electrode material that can ma... more

Toyota and Panasonic to Start Feasibility Study of Joint Automotive Prismatic Battery Business

published: 2017-12-14 14:51

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic) announce today an agreement to begin studying the feasibility of a joint automotive prismatic battery business. This agreement between the two companies aims ... more

Google Fulfills Its Renewable Commitment as Its Purchases of Solar and Wind Power Have Topped 3 Gigawatts

published: 2017-12-13 10:29

Technology giant Google LLC recently fulfilled its renewable energy commitment made about a year ago with purchases of electricity generated by wind power infrastructure located in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Id... more

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