Power Plants

Florida’s House Commerce committee successfully passed HB 1351 yesterday – otherwise known as the bill that would implement Amendment 4.

Queensland-based developer SolarQ is planning to build a 350MW(AC) solar plant combined with a ground-breaking 4,000MWh of lithium-ion battery storage in the Gympie Region of Queensland, Australia.

After new Secretary of Energy Rick Perry sent a memo to his chief of staff authoring a 60-day review of the grid to investigate how certain federal subsidies boost one form of energy at the expense of certain base load energies such as nuclear and coal, many industry observers believed him to be attacking renewable energy, but the SEIA claims this is not the case.

Rays Power Infra has commissioned a 78MW solar PV project at Roorkee district in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Major utility firm E.on has announced its entrance to the UK’s solar and storage market with a new consumer-focused offering.

Bolymedia Holdings, a high-tech manufacturing firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, revealed its fourth patented renewable energy technology product at this year’s SNEC Expo in Shanghai.

Vietnam has confirmed a long-awaited feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme for utility-scale solar projects along with a net metering scheme for rooftop PV systems.

French oil major Total has joined with SunPower and Japan’s ISE Group to commission their 27MW PV power plant in Nanao, on Honshu Island.

The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico is making strides in an attempt to add renewable energy to its generation mix.

After experiencing their own problems with potential induced degradation (PID), Belgium-based Edison Energy took matters into its own hands and developed the Pidbull solution in partnership with imec. Now it sells Pidbull to anyone experiencing issues with PID. As managing director Davy Verheyden explains, it is a problem solar asset owners cannot afford to ignore.