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

The board of directors of Taiwan Mobile approved the major target of attaining net zero mission by 2050 today, and promises to submit a net zero emission plan to the Science-Based Targets (SBT) initiative by the end of this year. ...  more

Texas is committed to developing solar energy, with 120 solar power plants planned in the next three years but counterintuitively, Texas is ignoring battery energy storage systems. ...  more

Indian PV glass manufacturer Borosil Renewables and European counterpart Interfloat Corporation have signed an agreement under which the former will acquire 100% of the stake in the latter. ...  more

Has establishment of solar systems postponed the decommissioning of coal-fired power plants? US public utility company NiSource Inc commented several days ago that it will delay the shutdown of its coal-fired power plant in Indiana. The solar import investigation initiated this year has drastically delayed the establishment of renewable energy facilities that were prepared to replace fossil fuels.   ...  more

Like its competitors, battery manufacturer Envision AESC (Envision) is aggressively expanding production capacity to meet the rising demand related to electric vehicles and energy storage systems. ...  more

The board of directors of wafer supplier Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) approved the financial report for the first quarter of 2022 on the 5th. The company attained a consolidated revenue of NT$18.769 billion, with a gross revenue of NT$7.462 billion, as well as a net operating profit of NT$6.205 billion, and a profit before tax of NT$703 million. A profit after tax of NT$1.265 billion was attributable to the parent company at an EPS of NT$2.16. ...  more

Egypt’s Hassan Allam Utilities (HA Utilities) and UAE-based renewable energy developer Masdar have signed two MoUs to collaborate on the development of green hydrogen production in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SC Zone or SETC) and on the Mediterranean coast. ...  more

Hangzhou First Applied Materials Co. Ltd. announced on April 25 that it will invest RMB 1.653 billion in four capacity expansion projects in order to grow its core business units and enhance their competitiveness and profitability. ...  more