Despite the lunch break, several furnaces and ancillary facilities continue to rumble at Jujin Chemical Co Ltd in Zhongwei, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The production of calcium carbide fills the workshop with hot air and a dazzling glare.
More money is pouring into solar power than all other electricity sources combined, with investments set to reach half a trillion dollars this year, the world's top energy research body said Thursday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast in a report that global investment in clean energy this year will hit $2 trillion, twice the amount going to fossil fuels.
It said combined investment in renewable power and grids overtook the amount spent on fossil fuels for the first time in 2023.
The world could install up to 574 GW of new PV capacity this year, according to a new global PV outlook report from BloombergNEF. It said that new solar installations hit 444 GW in 2023, significantly surpassing its previous forecast of around 413 GW.
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO), the state-run agency that manages the SDE++ program for renewable energy in the Netherlands, has publicly proposed the idea of supporting the production of solar panels, storage systems and electrolyzers.
The second consultation phase has been completed for the Botley West Solar Farm in the west of Oxfordshire.
The project, proposed by the developer Photovolt Development Partners (PVDP), held a consultation period of over ten weeks from 30 November 2023.
More than 1,000 local residents, councils, and technical bodies attended the information event for the project, which will be split across three sites – Cherwell, West Oxfordshire, and Vale of White Horse.
The government of Sao Paulo has announced the completion of the first phase of the UFF Araucária floating PV project on the Billings Reservoir, which is the largest reservoir in Sao Paulo.
The plant has a capacity of 7 MW and features 10,500 solar panels mounted on high-density polyethylene floats. It will operate under the country's net metering scheme.
In Swift Solar’s lab, more than a dozen pairs of elbow-length rubber gloves hover horizontally in midair, inflated like arms. The gloves are animated by gaseous nitrogen and jut out of waist-high, glass-walled enclosures, designed to keep the workspaces dry and airtight to protect the delicate solar materials inside.
A consortium formed by Germany-based mounting system provider K2 Systems and Swiss EPC contractor Solarmotion has deployed a vertical PV system on a bypass road in the municipality of Teufen in the canton of Appenzell Ausserhoden, Switzerland.
Europe is stockpiling the same amount of solar panels as it has deployed, a new report has found.
According to Rystad Energy's Freedom from Fossil Fuels report, 40 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels are stored in warehouses across the European Union, equivalent to what was installed across the 27-country bloc in 2022.
If these panels were installed, they could replace seven billion cubic metres (bcm) of fossil gas, which should rise to 15 bcm at the end of the year as Rystad Energy forecasts that the number of panels in storage should grow to 100 GW.
