Mumbai: Fourth Partner Energy, a distributed solar solutions provider, on Friday announced a $70 million investment from The Rise Fund, a global impact investment fund managed by TPG Growth. Founded in 2010 by Vivek Subramanian, Saif Dhorajiwala and Vikas Saluguti, Fourth Partner Energy is a distributed energy management company with in-house capabilities across design, engineering, construction, service, m ...

Upside Energy wins prestigious Ashden Award for its Virtual Energy Store™ Solution reduces reliance on fossil power and facilitates greater deployment of renewables June 15th 2018 - Upside Energy has won the 2018 Impax Ashden Award for Energy Innovation for its ground-breaking approach to balancing the grid. Its Virtual Energy Store™ shifts electricity use in line with demand by aggregating fl ...

JA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO), a world leading manufacturer of high-performance solar power JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO), a world leading manufacturer of high-performance solar power products, today announced that it was awarded the "2018 Top Performer" by DNV GL, a world renowned independent energy experts and certification institute. This is the third time that JA Solar received the a ...

BP and Reliance Industries have set up a joint venture company that aims to supply natural gas to the domestic market from its main production blocks and pursue LNG imports in an effort to boost the share of gas in India's energy basket, the CEO of the new venture said. Vinod Tahiliani, CEO of India Gas Solutions, a 50:50 JV between BP and Reliance, said energy reforms and infrastructure projects undertaken ...

Van Oord has been designated as preferred contractor for a large 640 MW offshore wind project in Taiwan, enabling the company to take a firm first step towards entering the Asian offshore wind market. The Yunlin offshore wind project is being developed by German project developer wpd, with Van Oord being responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation of the wind farm’s eighty foundations. Prepar ...

An announcement made by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) highlighted that the next phase of the Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP) is set to begin and is expected to be able to provide solar PV to 17 communities by November of this year. The next phase of the A$59 million Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP) project is set to begin construction thereby giving remote communities ...

Three years into the implementation period of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is Asia Pacific on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? According to ESCAP’s recent Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report, the answer is yes for only one Goal, unlikely for many Goals, and probably not for a few Goals where the region is moving in the wrong direction, most notably on inequality. ...

With rapid growth in enterprise cloud and big data, the acceleration of DevOps and microservices initiatives, and an increasing distribution of global workforces; the criticality and relevance of interconnected data centers has never been higher and it's growing. According to PwC, the Asia Pacific data center market size is expected to grow by 27% per annum (p.a.); with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) ...

Highview Power launches world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage plant True long-duration energy storage addresses challenges of rising energy demand and balancing the grid The world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant will be officially launched today. The 5MW/15MWh LAES plant, located at Bury, near Manchester will become the first operational demonstration of LAES technolog ...

Trina Solar Limited ("Trina Solar" or the "Company") announced that it has successfully closed the acquisition of Spain-based Nclave Renewable S.L. ("Nclave"), the world's leading solar tracker system manufacturer. This is the first time that a Chinese solar company has acquired a solar tracker producer outside of its home market, accelerating Trina Solar's strategic transformation from a leading PV product ...