Scatec to Begin Construction of 540MW Solar and Battery Project in South Africa
Scatec will begin construction work on Kenhardt solar photovoltaic power plants in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The 540 megawatts …
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Medline Completes 6.7 MW Rooftop Solar System in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Medline has completed its rooftop solar installation at its distribution center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The company celebrated on Tuesday, with …
Netherlands-based Researchers Develop Budding Smart Window
The Netherlands-based research center, TNO, has developed a smart window using thermochromic smart glass. They partnered with Sunnovate on the …
Schneider Electric, WWF Install Solar-Storage Mini-Grids on Diminishing Islands in India’s Threatened Sundarbans
Stretching across the Bay of Bengal from on to offshore the coasts of northeast India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is the world’s largest remaining mangrove... Read more →
World Bank Spurs Kenya Off-Grid Solar Expansion with $150MM IDA Credit
The World Bank recently added substantial impetus to the wave of off-grid solar energy projects sweeping across Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s preeminent multilateral development bank... Read more →
Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands
Ghana is turning to the construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power mini-grids in a bid to provide rural communities with modern, sustainable electricity... Read more →
Institute for Transformative Technologies Looks to Spur Rural Renewable Electrification
The Institute for Transformative Technologies’ (ITT) “Utility-in-a-Box” (UiB) is making its debut in India as three private-sector energy services companies (ESCOs) embark on testing and... Read more →
Australia’s “Sunshine State” Issues Solar Rooftop Public Housing Tenders
Winter may be arriving, but solar energy and energy storage have been heating up even further in Australia since March when Tesla CEO Elon Musk... Read more →
Public-Private Partnership Results in Low-Carbon Community Microgrid for Blue Lake Rancheria Native American Tribe
Solar PV-battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid/renewable energy microgrids are catching on in Native American tribal communities in California and across the western US.... Read more →
University, Industry, Community Partner to Build Solar Microgrid on Chemehuevi Tribal Reservation
A university-industry-community project team is building a renewable energy microgrid on the reservation of the Chemeuevi Indian Tribe near Lake Havasu, California. Supported by a... Read more →