New York State has mandated a programme to have 50% of its electricity coming from renewable energy by 2030, after governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the State Department of Public Service to draw up a new Clean Energy Standard to support the target.
The eligibility of energy storage systems for a programme financing energy efficiency and renewables through property tax assessment shows that the technology is maturing rapidly, according to the CEO of the North American arm of Sonnenbatterie.
Renewable energy firm SunEdison has cancelled a US$250 million deal to buy a 16% stake in Brazil’s largest renewable energy company, Renova Energia S.A, which is the second time in two months that the developer has pulled out of deals in the Latin American region.
Dallas-based renewable energy company Tri Global Energy, which has a 6GW portfolio of utility-scale wind projects, has formed a new solar energy business unit named TGE Solar, and acquired California-based rooftop solar provider K12Solar.
Dust and sand on PV arrays in the desert can have a negative impact on module performance, but so too can the automated solutions available to clean them.
Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power has acquired a controlling interest in the 157MW Roserock solar facility — the company’s first solar project in Texas — from solar developer Recurrent Energy.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and a Saudi Arabian prince are among the names signed up to support the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, an initiative launched as COP21 climate talks begin today in Paris.
Indian prime minister and French president Francois Hollande will jointly launch the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the COP21 climate conference in Paris today.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved US$450 million of financing to initiate an Energy Efficiency Green Bond Facility in the Latin America region.
