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Growing Number of Floating Solar Power Plants in Asia
Indonesia recently got the prototype of a marine floating solar power plant, writes Offshore Energy. The project called Solar2Wave is a milestone in developing solar energy in Indonesia, which has successfully overcome...
North macedonia: floating solar power plants in the national irrigation grid
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of North Macedonia, Ljupčo Nikolovski, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain, H.E. Jose Luis Lozano Garcia and representatives of the consulting company Globatek...
The Potential and Impact of Solar Panels on Water Surfaces
Solar energy is developing faster than all other renewable energy sources. There are different types of panels and many ways in which they can be installed. Ground and roof solar power plants...
EU Rooftop Solar Standard alone could solar power 56 million homes
Today, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive officially enters into force, with its publication in the Official Journal of the EU. Successful implementation of the EU Rooftop Solar Standard under the EU...
New report unveils investment opportunities for solar in Oman
SolarPower Europe, supported by the Global Solar Council (GSC), and the Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA), launches its report on solar investment opportunities in Oman.
The report, called “Oman: Solar investment opportunities",...
Scientists Have Created Flexible and Waterproof Solar Cells
The sun is an inexhaustible energy source that has long inspired scientists to improve the technology of solar cells so that they can be used as widely as possible.
Recently, we wrote about...
AUSTRALIA’S SOLAR REVOLUTION STARTS ON ROOFTOPS
It is a well-known fact that Australia is one of the largest countries in the world with an area of 7.6 million square metres, which is why it does not have a...
A Solar – Powered Catamaran
Floating islands of waste are real ecological disasters since they endanger water streams, the function of the hydropower plants, and the safe water supply. Moreover, they have a devastating impact on all...
Concentrating Solar Power Gets Supercritical CO2 Makeover
Concentrating solar power may have finally found its one true love: supercritical carbon dioxide, aka sCO2, which is something that happens when carbon dioxide gas behaves like a liquid. The electricity generation...
Is It Possible to Grow Berries Under Solar Panels?
Together with its Dutch subsidiary, GroenLeven, BayWa r.e. has now built one of Europe’s largest AgriPV projects at the Piet Albers fruit farm in Babberich, as well as four new test projects...
Dutch Water Company Will Evaluate Impact of Floating Solar on Water Quality
Evides Waterbedrijf is a water supply company in the Netherlands. It estimates it could generate all the electricity it needs to power its pumping and distribution operations if just 30% of the...
Solar Power Energy Payback Time Is Now Super Short
Some solar power critics seem to enjoy trying to point out that the energy payback time for solar power is too long, and therefore this form of renewable energy is not valid....
The World’s First Floating Wind Farm has Already Exceeded Expectations
Hywind is the first commercial floating wind farm, located more than 15 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the North Sea. Built by Norwegian conglomerate Statoil, the six turbines came...
The world’s largest floating solar power plant is being built in Japan
As solar power becomes a bigger and bigger part of the overall energy landscape, engineers around the world are busy working out how to build plants that are large and efficient enough...
Major Global Utilities Announce Joint Intent to Scale Renewable Capacity by 2.5 times to 2030
The Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA) adopted the UNEZA Roadmap to 2030, which targets a total increase of renewable energy capacity within their portfolios to 749GW by 2030*, an increase of...
What is the Sun Tax and Why Some Countries “Punish” Their Prosumers?
There should be no obstacles for those who want to invest in renewable energy sources on the way to decarbonization of the energy sector. And yet, by introducing the so-called “sun tax”,...
