Solar Project Racks up 50 Farms in South Australia
A renewable energy project that started as a way to provide extra income for grape and citrus growers has built its 50th small-scale solar farm in South Australia. Renmark-based Yates Electrical Services began its Red Mud Green Energy project three years ago with the first 187kW commercial farm joining the electricity grid in September 2016. Since then 50 farms have been built up to 1MW in size on sites ranging in area from 4000sq m (1 acre) to 2 hectares (5 acres). About 80 per cent of th...
CellCube to Bring Grid Scale Vanadium Battery to South Australia
Renewables firm Pangea Energy and vanadium battery producer CellCube have signed on to build a 50MW storage system alongside a solar farm in South Australia. Construction of the 50MW/200MWh grid-scale battery is expected to begin before the end of the year, with plans to be operational in 2020. Pangea Energy is part of Sen Tek Energy Solutions, a multinational renewable energy project developer in South East Asia. It signed the letter of intent with Canadian energy storage systems manufact...
Approval for Sanjeev Gupta’s South Australian solar farm
The first large scale project in billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s plan to generate one gigawatt of dispatchable renewable energy in South Australia has been approved. The 280MW solar Cultana Solar Farm has been signed off by the South Australian Government with financial close expected to be reached by the end of June and construction to begin in the Upper Spencer Gulf town of Whyalla in the second half of the year. The project on 1100ha of vacant land to the north of the Whyalla...
AW-Energy’s WaveRoller Using the Endless Energy of the Ocean’s Waves to Generate Electricity at New SURGE 2 Project in Peniche, Portugal Manufacturing Certificate Issued by Lloyd’s Register
WaveRoller provides a reliable and predictable source of renewable energy to the energy system that compliments more intermittent technologies such as wind and solar. WaveRoller taps the unused ocean energy resource that is readily available also for many locations where other renewable energy sources cannot be fully utilized due to limited available on-shore area or other considerations. A manufacturing certification milestone from Lloyd’s Register Lloyd’s Register surveyors inspecte...
Global Battery Energy Storage Market to Grow by 7% to Reach $13.13bn by 2023, Says GlobalData
The global battery energy storage market is forecast to grow to $13.13bn by 2023. Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets for battery energy storage systems over the forecast period 2019-2023, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s latest report ‘Battery Energy Storage Market, Update 2019 – Global Market Size, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2023’ reveals that the fall in technology prices and increasing pace of developme...
Neste and the City of Oakland Partner to Fuel the City Fleet with the City Waste
The City of Oakland and Neste announce that waste feedstock from the city is now being converted to Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ and fuels the city's fleet. The City of Oakland, Neste, fuel distributor Western States Oil and local collectors for used cooking oil joined forces to gather waste cooking oils from restaurants and other businesses in the Oakland metropolitan area and convert it to fuel the city’s fleet. By making waste more valuable and supporting jobs that collect and treat it, this...
New Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Amps up Efforts by Xanterra Travel Collection to Create Greener National Parks & Memorials
MOUNT RUSHMORE (KEYSTONE), SOUTH DAKOTA – On Earth Day, Monday, April 22, at 2 p.m Xanterra Travel Collection is set to unveil the new Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. This extraordinary structure provides over half of the electricity used by Xanterra’s gift shop and restaurant at Mount Rushmore. The system is the second largest solar installation in the state. It will reduce Xanterra’s greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent or 56 MT CO2e/yr which is the equival...
Deep Electrification Powered by Renewables Key for a Climate-Safe Future
Berlin, Germany, 9 April 2019 – As the urgency to take bold climate action grows, new analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that scaling-up renewable energy combined with electrification could deliver more than three quarters of the energy-related emission reductions needed to meet global climate goals. According to the latest edition of IRENA’s Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050, launched today at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, pathways to meet...
Installation of Nearly 3,000 Solar Panels at HNL Complete
HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is pleased to announce the completion of the installation of 2,980 additional photovoltaic panels on the 5th floor of the Terminal 2 (formerly the Overseas Terminal) garage at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL). Construction on the Terminal 2 panels began on Jan. 7, 2019, as part of HDOT’s sustainability and energy savings efforts. “This is our latest step towards sustainability at Hawaii’s largest airport, which see...
Renewable Energy Now Accounts for a Third of Global Power Capacity
Abu Dhabi, UAE – The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts (GW), according to new data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today. The annual increase of 7.9 per cent was bolstered by new additions from solar and wind energy, which accounted for 84 per cent of the growth. A third of global power capacity is now based on renewable energy. IRENA’s annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 20...
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