The Australian state of Queensland's push to source 70% of its energy supplies from renewables by 2032 has received a boost with the completion of the 162 MW Columboola Solar Farm.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/07/sterling-wilson-switches-on-162-mw-solar-plant-in-australia/
#utility, #modules, #scale, #photovoltaics, #photovoltaic, #markets, #pv
Suomen Energiavarasto Oy has secured €26.3 million ($27.5 million) from the Finnish government European Commission to build an underground pumped hydro project at a former zinc and copper mine. mine in Finland.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/07/finnish-mine-to-host-75-mw-530-mwh-underground-pumped-hydro-facility/
#policy, #r&d, #utility, #technology, #storage, #energy, #markets
The battery Gigafactory will bring 300 initial full-time jobs, scaling up to 1,000 cumulative jobs over time. time, to Tucson, Arizona.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/12/07/american-battery-factory-to-build-tucscon-arizona-battery-cell-gigafactory/
#policy, #manufacturing, #storage, #business, #battery, #energy, #employment, #markets
The Japanese solar market reached a cumulative installed PV capacity of 78.4 GW at the end of 2021, according to a new report from IEA-PVPS. Japanese analyst Izumi Kaizuka told pv magazine that the country could annually install up 6 GW of new solar in both 2022 and 2023.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/06/japan-on-track-to-hit-90-gw-of-pv-capacity-by-end-2023/
#japan, #photovoltaic, #pv, #photovoltaics, #policy, #markets
Japan’s Itochu has announced a new tie-up with France’s Rosi Solar, which develops tech to recover and recycle high-purity silver, copper and silicon from solar modules.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/30/itochu-to-start-recycling-solar-modules/
#modules, #alliances, #manufacturing, #policy, #markets, #strategic, #upstream
Canada is set to install 500 MW of new solar in 2022, bringing its total capacity to about 5 GW, according to data from Canmet Energy. The country is expected to hit 35 GW of total solar capacity by 2050.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/29/canada-set-to-hit-5-gw-milestone/
#utility, #policy, #markets, #pv, #residential, #installations
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group has energized its first hybrid storage system based on lithium-ion batteries and vanadium redox flow batteries in Germany. The system reportedly combines the advantages and electrochemical properties of both storage technologies.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/23/lithium-vanadium-battery-for-renewables-storage/
#storage, #r&d, #technology, #energy, #policy, #markets, #utility
The company was selected in 2021 as part of a plan to install rooftop and brownfield solar projects and energy storage systems across over 100 sites for three dozen municipalities and school districts in Westchester County, N.Y.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/23/ecogy-begins-new-york-34-mw-community-solar-development-plan/
#ecogy, #westchester, #installations, #markets, #community, #solar, #procurement
The 300 MW La Pimienta solar project is now selling electricity to Mexican utility CFE under a 15-year power purchase agreement. It is Mexico's second-largest operational PV facility.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/24/atlas-renewable-energy-switches-on-300-mw-solar-project-in-mexico/
#scale, #photovoltaics, #pv, #markets, #photovoltaic, #mexico, #utility
SolarDuck, an offshore solar developer in the Netherlands, has been chosen to build a 5 MW floating PV project with energy storage. It aims to start operations in 2026.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/14/offshore-wind-farm-in-north-sea-to-host-5-mw-floating-pv-plant/
#installations, #pv, #storage, #floating, #markets, #scale, #utility
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a $216 million program to explore turning the Shawnee Fossil Plant, a closed coal ash storage location, into a utility-scale solar project.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/14/tva-aims-to-build-100mw-solar-installation-on-retired-coal-site-in-kentucky/
#installations, #policy, #pv, #coal, #markets, #scale, #utility
Sweden's Vattenfall has revealed plans to build a subsidy-free, large-scale solar plant along the A6 highway in the Netherlands. Construction is expected to begin in 2024, with operations to start in late 2024 or early 2025.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/08/vattenfall-to-build-solar-array-along-dutch-highway/
#installations, #photovoltaics, #scale, #pv, #photovoltaic, #utility, #markets
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K-jCqjM4Kmc
#ProfWolff shows how the #economics of existing capitalist and socialist economies make use of both #markets and #planning. The opposition of markets and planning is largely false and has worked to distract students and observers of economic systems from better differentiations such as how they differently #organize their #workplaces: #hierarchical in the case of #capitalist, #democratic in the case of #worker-cooperatives. Some major implications of this critique of the "planning versus market" obsession are discussed in relation to the #US, #SovietUnion, and #China.
#richardwolff #economicupdate #capitalism #socialism #money #inflation #democracyatwork
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) says that 691 MW of new PV systems were subsidized under the country’s EEG renewables incentive program in September.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/01/germany-installed-750-mw-of-solar-in-september/
#markets, #industrial, #pv, #residential, #scale, #utility, #commercial
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its "World Energy Outlook 2022" report. It expects the energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine to accelerate the global energy transition.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/10/28/annual-added-pv-capacity-will-more-than-quadruple-to-650-gw-in-2030-says-iea/
#policy, #highlights, #markets, #installations, #pv, #scale, #utility
The new module series has a power output ranging from 420 to 430 W, a temperature coefficient of -0.26% per degree Celsius, and an efficiency of up to 22.2%.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/09/21/panasonic-presents-22-2-efficient-all-black-heterojunction-solar-module-compatible-with-its-evervolt-battery/
#markets, #energy, #policy, #manufacturing, #upstream, #modules, #storage
The month of May saw Japan and South Korea set a new benchmark for solar electricity generation, according to a London-based think tank, but PV is still dwarfed by fossil fuel-powered electricity in the two countries.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/08/24/japan-and-south-korea-set-solar-records/
#clean, #power, #sustainability, #coal, #to, #policy, #markets
After implementing SB 52 last fall, ten rural Ohio jurisdictions have banned large “single interconnection” wind or solar facilities in unincorporated areas.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/08/24/ten-ohio-counties-have-banned-large-scale-wind-and-solar/
#ban, #policy, #markets, #interconnection, #solar
The landmark legislation has been met with celebration in the US solar industry as it prepares for a record decade of deployment.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/08/15/solar-industry-reacts-to-passage-of-the-inflation-reduction-act/
#policy, #back, #acore, #markets, #first, #aee, #looking
Clean energy act relaxes net metering caps, incentivizes pollinator-friendly solar, and pushes grid modernization.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/08/15/massachusetts-governor-signs-major-climate-bill/
#policy, #grids, #net, #metering, #markets, #integration
