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Japan’s Abandoned Golf Courses Are Being Transformed into Solar Power Farms
The Kyocera Corporation is transforming an abandoned golf course into a solar power farm, with ambition to partner and repeat the same sustainable work elsewhere in Japan. An abandoned and bankrupt golf course is being transformed into a solar power…
Siemens to Supply Wind Turbines for Onshore Project in Norway
Siemens has received an order to supply, install and commission 50 onshore wind turbines in Norway. Project developers are Zephyr AS and Norsk Vind Energi AS. Funds managed by BlackRock are providing equity financing for the project. The wind turbines,…
Environment and Security Initiative’s Support Towards Sustainable Development Goals and Green Economy in Focus of OSCE
The Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) stakeholders discussed on 9th June in Batumi how the Initiative can contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and transition to green economy at an ENVSEC side event on the…
Solar Panels Have Gotten Thinner than a Human Hair
South Korean scientists have created solar PV cells that are 1 micrometer thick, hundreds of times thinner than most PV and half again as thin as other kinds of thin-film PV. (The research is in a paper just published…
Financing the Future
In 2015, $286 billion was invested in renewable energy. That is an enormous sum of money by many measurements, but is it enough, and are we on track to meet the energy demands of the future with renewables? “Unfortunately it’s…
Solar Energy to Power India of the Future
The World Bank Group is moving to help India deliver on its unprecedented plans to scale up solar energy, from installing solar panels on rooftops to setting up massive solar parks. This will catapult India to the forefront of the…
Texas on Track to Become the Fastest-Growing Utility-Scale Solar Market in the U.S.
Kicking off the year with record growth across all solar sectors, Texas is on track to become the fastest-growing utility-scale solar market in the U.S. within the next five years, according to the recently released U.S. Solar Market Insight, Q2…