Author: Anela Dokso

The Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in partnership with the Douglas County Public Utility District, the Renewable Hydrogen Alliance, and Toyota Motor North America has received a $1.9 million grant from the Centralia Coal Transition board to fund the Renewable Hydrogen Demonstration Project, which will deliver the first hydrogen fueling station for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) in Washington State. With the funding provided by the board, the Renewable Hydrogen Demonstration Project will lay the foundation for the expected growth of zero-emission personal and heavy-duty hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicles. The Centralia Coal Transition board provides grants to improve energy…

Canadian Solar has appointed Leslie Li Hsien Chang as an independent director to Canadian Solar’s board of directors. In addition, and in preparation for the planned carve-out IPO in China of Canadian Solar’s Module and System Solutions subsidiary, CSI Solar, the company appointed Yan Zhuang as president of CSI Solar, stepping down from his role as president and CEO of Canadian Solar. Zhuang remains as a director on the Canadian Solar board. Furthermore, Guangchun Zhang is appointed as senior VP, Operations and Technology, of CSI Solar, stepping down from his role as senior VP and chief manufacturing officer of Canadian…

Vestas has secured a 54 MW order for the GreenLab Skive project from Eurowind Energy.  The GreenLab project, located in Mid Jutland, Denmark is a sustainable energy park and research facility that generates renewable energy from multiple sources such as wind, solar and biogas. To maximize the project’s power production, Vestas has developed a site-specific wind energy solution that features one V126-3.45 MW turbine delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode and 12 V136-4.2 MW turbines, combined with towers on different hub heights and a 20-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement. “We are happy to execute this…

Black & Veatch has joined the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS), a global nonprofit that supports and promotes the safe handling and use of hydrogen across industrial and consumer applications. Efforts to decarbonize the power sector while maintaining a reliable, balanced generation mix remains a goal of the industry. Initial hydrogen turbine projects in Europe have demonstrated the viability of the technology, drawing acclaim for its promise to provide reliable baseload power. “Hydrogen is a rising star in the changing energy landscape, particularly when it comes to pursuing robust decarbonization through renewables. Fully integrating hydrogen into the energy mix will…

Iberdrola has inaugurated the Andévalo photovoltaic plant in Andalusia. Iberdrola Chairman, Ignacio Galán, accompanied by the president of the Andalusian Parliament, Juanma Moreno, explained that “Andévalo is an example of the operations we are undertaking in Andalusia to triple our renewable potential in the region to 3,000 MW over the next 5 years”. This new plan represents an investment of nearly €1.5bn and will allow for the creation, in the construction and assembly works alone, of 5,500 new jobs in the region. Iberdrola currently has an installed renewable capacity of 900 MW in the region. Andalusia thus becomes one of…

The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has placed a 252 MW order with Vestas for the Gulf of Suez 1 wind project in Egypt. Vestas has developed a solution that comprises the supply and installation of 70 V105-3.45 MW wind turbines in 3.6 MW Power Optimized Mode and a three-year Active Output Management 4000 (AOM 4000) service agreement, capable of maximizing the project’s annual energy production, while meeting the local tip-height restriction and the national grid code requirements. Vestas will also manage the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) side of the project, which includes related civil and electrical works…

Canadian Solar has agreed to a RMB 1.78 billion (approximately $260 million) capital raising for its Module and System Solutions (MSS) subsidiary, CSI Solar. This capital raising is an important step for CSI Solar to qualify for the planned carve-out IPO in China, and brings in leading institutional investors and strategic partners, including CDH Investment Management Company and SIP Oriza PE Fund Management, among others. The Third-Party Investors have agreed to purchase existing CSI Solar shares from the company for an aggregate of RMB 1.50 billion ($219 million) at an equity valuation of RMB 7.50 billion ($1.1 billion). At the…

Vestas has received a 40 MW order from Eurowind Energy, a developer and operator of sustainable energy projects for three wind parks in Poland. The three projects are developed through Eurowind Energy’s joint venture in Poland E&W project. Located in the Wagrowiec, Oborniki and Wyrzysk provinces in the north-western part of the country, the projects will consist of V100-2.0 MW wind turbines combined with 120m towers and long-term service contracts, maximizing power production while at the same time offering competitive levelized cost of energy. Earlier this quarter, Vestas secured more than 1.5 GW of wind projects in Poland since the…

Vestas, energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions, has received new turbine orders in the USA. The first is a 184 MW order of V120-2.2 MW and V110-2.2 MW wind turbines in the USA. The order includes supply and commissioning of the turbines as well as a multi-year service agreement. The second order is a 185 MW order of V150-4.2 MW turbines in 4.3 MW Power Optimized Mode. The order includes supply and commissioning of the turbines as well as a 20-year service agreement, designed to ensure optimized performance for the lifetime of the project. Turbine delivery for both…

Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to an analysis by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The researchers estimate that adding floating solar panels to bodies of water that are already home to hydropower stations could produce as much as 7.6 terawatts of potential power a year from the solar PV systems alone, or about 10,600 terawatt-hours of potential annual generation. Those figures do not include the amount generated from hydropower. For comparison,…