Americas

E-Mobility Driven Forward With Boosts In Manufacturing And Infrastructure

Americas, Asia Pacific, Carbon, Europe/Middle East/Africa

With ambitious targets for electric mobility, Japan and China are currently driving the organisation of their national vehicle markets forward; both in the hydrogen and fuel cell technologies as well as in the further development of battery-driven systems. Emission-free drives for cars and buses are being advanced. The combination of rigid pollutant regulations and attractive incentive systems is — in China and in leading European markets as well as the USA, with Tesla — the unavoidable path that needs to be taken in order to meet the requirements of the Paris World Climate Convention.

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New York State To Generate 50% Of Its Electricity From Clean Energy By 2030

Americas, Biomass, Policy, Solar, Wind

The third-largest state economy in the US will soon obtain half of its electricity needs from renewable energy thanks to a new measure approved by the New York Public Service commission. The Empire State’s new Clean Energy Standard will diversify the state’s electricity by requiring utilities and other energy suppliers to procure over 26 percent of the state’s electricity mix with clean and renewable energy resources, including solar and wind power, in 2017, and over 30 percent by 2021, rising to 50 percent by 2030.

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$345 Million Raised By SolarCity In June And July For New Solar Projects

Americas, Deals & Finance, Head Lines, Solar

In addition to the $345 million raised in June and July, SolarCity’s capital markets team has raised more than $1.5 billion in project financing to date in 2016. Investment in rooftop and other small-scale solar is expected to attract $3.4 trillion over the next 25 years, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The company is also evaluating how the installation of the smart inverters and battery storage systems for residential rooftop solar customers can enhance grid stability and power quality.

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EON Advances Grid Stability With 10MW TEP Energy Storage Agreement

Americas, Deals & Finance, Energy, Region, Solar

E.ON Climate & Renewables North America today announced it signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10(MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. The Iron Horse Battery Energy Storage Project will be located adjacent to theUniversity of Arizona Science and Technology Park southeast of Tucson. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

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Record Crowds Attend Intersolar and ees North America 2016

Americas, Efficiency, Solar

Intersolar North America, the most-attended solar industry event in North America, drew a record crowd of more than 18,000 from over 80 countries to its ninth annual exhibition and conference in San Francisco last week. Attendance was boosted by the co-located ees North America, an exhibition and conference dedicated to the energy storage market. ees added significantly to the event’s exhibitor base, with 41 percent growth over the previous year.

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EON Enables Digital Realty To Be 100% Clean Energy Powered

Americas, Carbon, Head Lines, Wind

E.ON and Digital Realty, have announced a long-term agreement to procure energy from the Colbeck’s Corner Wind Farm. The agreement allows Digital Realty to offset 100% of its U.S. colocation and interconnection energy footprint. Colbeck’s Corner is a 200.48 MW wind farm located 37 miles east of Amarillo, Texas. It has 112 GE 1.79-100 turbines that can create enough electricity to power approximately 64,000 homes. E.ON has developed more than 3GW of wind projects in the US since 2005.

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Vivint Solar And Renovate America Combine To Boost Rooftop Solar Access

Americas, Energy, Head Lines, Policy, Solar

Vivint Solar and Renovate America, the leading provider of residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, are collaborating to expand access to rooftop solar for homeowners. By offering Renovate America’s HERO program as its PACE financing option, Vivint is enabling more homeowners to install solar systems. They can use HERO financing for Solar systems and pay for them over time through their local property taxes. Payments are made at a fixed interest rate for terms of 5 to 20 years, and the interest on the payments may be tax deductible.

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Efficiency Breakthrough In Conversion Of Solar Heat Into Usable Light

Americas, Efficiency, Head Lines, Solar

Since 1961, the Shockley-Queisser Limit has represented an absolute theoretical limit in identifying the efficiency of traditional solar cells in the conversion of energy. A single-layer cell made of silicon, used in the vast majority of today’s solar panels, has an upper limit of about 32 percent. Studies under way to identify whether multiple layers of cells lead to increased overall efficiency by a method known as solar thermophotovoltaics (STPV). In principle, this method of pairing conventional solar cells with added layers of high-tech materials would lead to doubling the theoretical limit of efficiency and double the power from panels.

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Colbún, Total And SunPower Agreement Highlights Clean Energy Growth In Chile

Americas, Carbon, Energy, Head Lines, Solar

Colbún S.A. recently announced the award of 15-year power purchase agreement to Total and SunPower for 500-gigawatt hours (GWh) of photovoltaic solar energy per year and the construction of a 164MW solar power plant. The award was selected from 13 competitive tender bids and submission of more than 20 power purchase agreement alternatives. Colbún is the second largest energy generation company in Chile and owns 23 power stations in its Central Interconnected System (SIC) and one in Peru (SEIN, through which it delivers 3,852MW of the installed capacity.

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Energy Generation: IEA Finds Notable Growth In Renewables, Decline in Coal, Oil

Americas, Asia Pacific, Biomass, Energy, Europe/Middle East/Africa

The International Energy Agency (IEA) shared that energy generation from renewable energy sources grew by 16% across the 34 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2015. A 1% decrease in combustible fuels was also noticed; such as coal, gas, and oil, as well as combustible renewables and waste energy sources.

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