Category: News

January 6 2015

GDF Suez Awarded Preferred Bidder Status for SAfrica Solar Plant

GDF will now be invited to enter into a 20-year power-purchase agreement for the 100-megawatt concentrated solar farm with state-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., Courbevoie, France-based GDF said today on its website.

December 29 2014

TransCanada Buys $52 Million Ontario Plant From Canadian Solar

The Liskeard 1 plant uses Canadian Solar modules, the Guelph, Ontario-based company said today in a statement.

December 23 2014

Japan to Review Power Generation Costs in January, Mainichi Says

The ministry will set up a task-force to put together cost estimates by the end of March, the paper said. The move follows similar estimates three years ago.

December 23 2014

Japan May Spend 50 Billion Yen for Energy Storage, Yomiuri Says

The government plans to help utilities and solar power producers install systems as part of a supplementary budget for the fiscal year ending March 31, the paper reported yesterday, without saying where it got the information.

December 23 2014

EU Carbon Rises to 2-Year High as Holidays Cut Supply

The benchmark front-December contract advanced 2.4 percent to the highest since Dec. 20, 2012 on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London. The volume traded was 30 percent of the three-month average.

December 22 2014

Pacific Coral Shows How Global Warming Is Tied to Wind

As they stir up the sea floor, the tropical winds are pushing warm air into the ocean, cooling the atmosphere. The Nature Geoscience study published today also shows that air temperatures over the Pacific will rise faster when those winds weaken.

December 22 2014

Electric Cars Hurt Most in Renewables Industry From Oil’s Slump

The 45 percent plunge in Brent crude oil prices since the end of June also will slow the shift away from fossil fuels in oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and drive up the cost of natural gas in the U.S., Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

December 22 2014

Kyocera Venture to Build 13.4 MW Floating Solar Plant in Japan

The station, to be built on a reservoir in Chiba prefecture, will be the world’s largest floating solar installation, the companies said in a statement today.

December 19 2014

Coal-Ash Rule Draws Environmentalist Complaints After Spills

The rule from the Environmental Protection Agency today follows contamination by coal ash -- the nation’s second-largest industrial waste after mining material -- at two sites in the southeast. Environmental advocates said that the rules may not do much to prevent the next pollution catastrophe.

December 19 2014

Duke Buying 20-Megawatt Halifax Solar Project in North Carolina

The solar farm in Roanoke Rapids, built on the site of a decommissioned airport, began generating electricity this month, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke said today in a statement. Terms weren’t disclosed.