China saw strong exports in photovoltaic products (PV) last year as the world picked up efforts to cope with climate challenges. In 2021, the country’s PV exports surpassed $28.4 billion, growing about 60 percent from $18.23 billion a year before, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said. With a …
Read More »China Criticizes U.S. for Extending Tariffs on Imported Solar
China criticized U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to extend tariffs on imported solar equipment, saying the act will “distort” international trades of the renewable energy product. “The U.S. government insisted on the extension regardless of the strong opposition domestically and internationally,” the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on …
Read More »India Overstretches in Trying to Counter China’s Solar Industry
India’s leading renewable energy developer, ReNew Energy Global PLC, has reportedly planned to switch its strategy, from growth based on China’s raw material supply to seek independent development, which has been viewed as India’s move to “counter China” in the sector. Until recently, ReNew Energy and other Indian renewable energy …
Read More »Iran’s 1st Thermal Solar Power Plant to be Launched by 2023
Located near the city of Yazd in central Iran, the new power plant will produce 17 megawatts of clean energy. This unique power plant which is being constructed next to Yazd Combined Cycle Power Plant on a 40-hectare land is aimed to develop clean energy, indigenize the knowledge for the …
Read More »World’s First Transnational Solar Panel Network Launched at COP26
Spearheaded by the governments of India and the UK, the first transnational network of solar power grids known as the Green Grids Initiative – One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG) has been launched. At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the International Solar Alliance (ISA), India Presidency of the …
Read More »China to Recycle 150k tonnes of CO2 to Make Solar Panel Materials
How could carbon dioxide emissions reduce the carbon footprint of the production of solar panels? The Chinese petrochemicals corporation Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals Co has unveiled plans to build a project that will recycle an estimated 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year to use in the manufacture of solar panel …
Read More »Amazon and Mitsubishi Corporation Sign Solar PPA in Japan
Amazon and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) jointly announced they have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 22 MW solar project in Japan. Operated by MC’s retail subsidiary, MC Retail Energy, the unique solar project is aggregated, which means that it is made up of numerous ground-mounted solar installations currently …
Read More »India Set to Deploy more than 4.5GW of Solar in Second Half of 2021
India is on track to install an additional 4,580MW of solar capacity in the second half of 2021 after seeing deployment marginally increase in Q2, according to Bridge to India. Despite fears of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the research and consultancy firm estimates that India will add …
Read More »Floating Solar Power to Quadruple by 2025
The global market for floating solar panels is set to more than quadruple by 2025, a recent report has revealed. The report published by Korea Energy Economics Institute on Sunday estimates that the total power generation capacity of floating solar farms around the globe had surpassed 3 gigawatts as of …
Read More »EU Solar Power Generation Hits Record High
Solar power supply in the European Union during June and July rose to a record high in 2021, accounting for 10% of total electricity produced in the region, a report by independent climate think-tank Ember said on Wednesday (18 August). The 27 countries in the bloc generated nearly 39 terawatt …
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