One of the planet’s most abundant elements, hydrogen has the capacity to be a game-changer in decarbonising the global energy system, writes Janice Lin, founder and president of the Green Hydrogen Coalition
Solar inverter manufacturer SMA will supply German grid operator TransnetBW with feed-in data from regional power installations to alleviate grid bottlenecking issues as home-consumption and battery storage grows in popularity.
ACWA Power and Iberdrola are among the seven founders of a new coalition that aims to scale up the production of green hydrogen 50-fold in the next six years while halving production costs.
A round-up of the latest news in solar project development, as Brazilian mining firm Vale plans a 766MWp facility, a 500MW portfolio changes hands in Canada and ReneSola sells Polish parks.
With module suppliers currently seeking to hit annual shipment volume guidance for 2020, and many announcing ambitious expansion plans for 2021 and beyond, the sector is seeing a shift now in terms of module supply to global utility-scale sites.
Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia are set to reach record levels this year, with governments and business investing AUD$2.4 billion (US$1.78 billion) and buying more than 1GW of green energy.
Californian energy tech developer BrightNight and Canadian clean energy company Cordelio have formed a joint venture that will see the latter expand its operations in the US with the help of the former’s planned projects.
Annual global investments in green hydrogen are on track to exceed US$1 billion by 2023 as production costs fall and governments increase their support for the technology.
Solar will likely play a major role in achieving Japan’s policy goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to zero by 2050 and could reach 130GW to 160GW in cumulative deployments by the 2030 financial year.
