US coal company Peabody Energy has launched a joint venture with Riverstone Credit Partners and Summit Partners Credit Advisors to develop more than 3.3GW of solar and 1.6GW of battery storage capacity over the next five years.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/04/us-coal-company-launches-venture-to-develop-3-3-gw-of-pv/
#photovoltaic, #photovoltaics, #modules, #utility, #scale, #markets, #pv
Delhi-based PV manufacturer Bluebird Solar has added a new fully automatic manufacturing line equipped with the latest mono-PERC, half-cut multi-busbar cell technology.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/03/bluebird-solar-expands-pv-module-capacity-to-300mw-in-india/
#manufacturing, #photovoltaic, #modules, #india, #pv, #markets, #upstream, #photovoltaics
The difference between working for a company and being part of a guild can be explained with the analogy of different modes of transport.
Working for a company is similar to going on a plane journey. You are subject to the rules of the airline as the ultimate decision maker. When you depart, when you land. Who sits next to you, what you get to eat and how you must behave is all dictated by the airline and airline regulations. Essentially your sphere of control extends only as far as whether you wish to subject yourself those rules in order to get to your destination or not.
The actual choices you get to make are trivial. Where you want to sit, what drink you want with your meal etc. The rest is not up to you. You are just cargo that breathes. Even your relationship with other passengers on the plane is purely transactional. There is no vested interest between passengers beyond basic pleasantries and safe arrival.
The guild is different. It is more like a road trip with friends. Sure there is a designated driver that has ultimate control but he/she is definitively influenced by other passengers in the car. The passengers also have a vested interest in each other. They are concerned with the well being of each other beyond the car journey itself. Though there is personal, individual interest for each passenger in what they want out of the journey, there is collaboration and co-operation on all key matters such as departure time, destination, choice of car, seat placement, when to stop to eat etc. Their bond goes beyond the car journey itself.
It is the difference between a dictatorship (company) and a co-operative (guild).
Guilds were a huge part of Islamic economies, most especially in the Ottoman era. Most tariqas were both a guild and a religious group where the Shaykh was the leader of the guild and both a leader in terms of craft and work as well as in terms of religion/spirituality.
Osman's rise was heavily supported/influenced by the Ahi guild for example, headed up by Shaykh Edebali.
Even in the West, the guilds were so important and became so rich that Kings would turn to guilds for financial support.
A guild permits each member to exercise their own agency and autonomy in achieving their own objectives while contributing to the success of other members of the group and society as a whole.
A company is there to serve the owners only with workers bonded in slavery.
This is what we're trying to build with the Qirad app. A guild system on the Blockchain where people can do business with each other and collaborate without being subject to dictatorship and unnecessary meddling.
via Khuram Malik
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The closing of the Alabama-based facility comes in tandem with the announcement that LG will be folding its solar module business by the end of June.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/24/lg-to-close-us-solar-module-manufacturing-facility/
#modules, #pv, #photovoltaic, #manufacturing, #markets, #upstream, #photovoltaics
The US battery specialist has signed framework agreements with four developers to deliver systems for multiple projects.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/15/powin-to-supply-5-8gwh-of-batteries-for-projects-in-us-and-taiwan/
#lithium-iron-phosphate, #battery, #manufacturing, #energy, #markets, #storage, #policy, #installations
Australia has hit a historic milestone – it has reached 25GW of installed solar capacity. As the Australian PV Institute noted on Monday, that’s more solar per capita than anywhere else in the world.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/15/australia-passes-25gw-of-installed-pv/
#industrial, #pv, #utility, #residential, #markets, #scale, #commercial
France has set a new target under which it will install 5GW of new PV capacity per year.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/14/france-announces-100-gw-solar-target-for-2050/
#industrial, #pv, #utility, #residential, #markets, #scale, #commercial
Denver-based Pivot Energy and Nautilus Solar Energy have announced the completion of a 13-MW community solar portfolio in Colorado. The fully operational portfolio is comprised of seven projects located in Crowley, Weld and Logan Counties, and provides a clean energy alternative to an estimated 1,700 households and 12 commercial subscribers, including the Town of Breckenridge,…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/02/nautilus-solar-pivot-energy-complete-13-mw-community-solar-portfolio/
#community, #nautilussolar, #projects, #news, #pivotenergy, #markets
Blackstone's $150 million investment will help fund development, construction, and ownership of utility-scale solar and storage assets across North America.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/10/strata-solar-receives-funding-from-blackstone-for-utility-scale-solar-and-battery-storage/
#epc, #energy, #blackstone, #storage, #o&m, #markets, #finance, #policy
If physical currency is eliminated and all currency becomes intangible, digital currency, all market access will be controllable through the network of banks and payment processors.
This means that your market access control, your ability to buy food, fuel, travel and sell goods and services can be limited or switched off for punitive and control purposes. This is a significant risk to human freedom.
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The New South Wales state government in Australia has revealed that more than 34GW of new solar PV, wind and energy storage projects have been proposed for the South-West Renewable Energy Zone.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/07/investors-submit-34gw-of-wind-solar-storage-for-renewables-zone-in-australia/
#storage, #photovoltaic, #pv, #scale, #markets, #photovoltaics, #utility
The proposal, which came under fire from industry leaders, environmentalists, and working Californians, was called a rooftop solar-killing measure. Meanwhile, a new state board granted PG&E a provision to raise electric rates to recover its losses from the wildfires for which it was found liable.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/04/california-nem-3-0-delayed-indefinitely/
#markets, #environmental, #cpuc, #metering, #net, #policy, #working
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M), an American Electric Power company, submitted a plan with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission that calls for adding more than 2,000 MW of wind and solar energy generation by 2028. The “Powering the Next Tomorrow” plan is designed to ensure reliable, sustainable energy for I&M customers from a resilient grid using…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/02/indiana-michigan-powers-sustainable-energy-plan-includes-solar/
#utility, #markets, #news, #projects, #indianamichiganpower
In 2019 the interconnection queue in the US was 139GWac and we were really excited about that much solar, but today it's 639GWac -- a 3X increase. Now that's a solar tsunami.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/25/solar-tsunami-2022/
#installations, #storage, #utility, #policy, #pv, #energy, #markets, #scale
Global Industry Analysts has predicted the rise of floatovoltaics, a market that is expected to serve areas with land use concerns.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/18/floating-pv-may-reach-4-8-gw-globally-by-2026-says-report/
#pv, #fpv, #markets, #floating, #gia, #policy, #floatovoltaics
Heavily-indebted Shunfeng International could be set for another big sell off of solar assets as it tries to pay down a near-$300 million overdue debt pile.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/01/03/chinese-solar-developer-suspends-trading-in-stock/
#markets, #pv, #policy, #scale, #finance, #utility
The US government could lease about 1,400 square miles of public land for solar development, in a move that would effectively double the nation’s installed PV capacity. The Bureau of Land Management has already taken the first step by approving 465 MW of solar and 400 MW of storage in California.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/12/23/us-government-identifies-land-to-support-100-gw-of-solar/
#photovoltaics, #pv, #utility, #photovoltaic, #markets, #scale, #modules
Also on the rise: Solar in Kentucky set to employ displaced coal workers, steps to take to mitigate cyberattack risks, net-metered solar up for a vote in nation’s largest rooftop solar market, and details emerge on what the Build Back Better program means for solar
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/12/14/sunrise-brief-the-value-of-net-metered-solar-is-up-for-a-vote-in-california/
#back, #build, #cyberattack, #business, #better, #markets, #jobs, #policy
Shell New Energies US, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has signed an agreement to buy 100% of Savion, a large utility-scale solar and energy storage developer in the United States, from Macquarie’s Green Investment Group. Savion currently has more than 18 GW of solar and energy storage under development. “Savion’s significant asset pipeline, highly…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/12/shell-acquires-u-s-solar-developer-with-18-gw-pipeline/
#storage, #markets, #utility, #news
Bengaluru-based Ayana Renewable Power has commissioned part of its 300 MW solar project in Bikaner, in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/12/14/ayana-renewable-power-commissions-150-mw-of-solar-in-india/
#pv, #scale, #utility, #photovoltaic, #india, #photovoltaics, #markets
