Investment company Urban Renewables, which focuses on sustainable energy solutions in metropolitan areas, has launched a subsidiary in Singapore.  Urban Renewables (Singapore) PTE will support the island state's journey in becoming a more sustainable and climate resilient city through developing and investing in innovative energy solutions.  Managing director and co-founder Edgare Kerkwijk said: " ...

Halting the pandemic and rebuilding economies are the most urgent goals for the immediate future. Wood Mackenzie estimates that almost US$20 trillion – equivalent to a quarter of global GDP – will go towards stimulus packages, public health spending and delivering a vaccine over the next 12-18 months alone. But while the response to Covid-19 may have temporarily knocked climate change off the front page, ad ...

Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd (SLNG) and Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) have signed an agreement for solar power to be implemented at the Singapore LNG Terminal on Jurong Island. Under the agreement, Total Solar DG will finance, build and operate a 600 kilowatts peak (kWp) rooftop solar power system, which will be installed on the rooftops of several buildings at the Terminal. The installation ...

Its 12.32 GWac global portfolio exceeded the total capacity installed by the entire US solar industry in 2019. India's Adani Group has been hailed as the top global solar power generation asset owner in terms of operating solar projects, according to the latest ranking of global solar companies by Mercom Capital. Adani’s renewable energy portfolio has exceeded the total capacity installed by the entire US s ...

 Myanmar is expected to announce the winners of tenders for a raft of solar power plants ahead of general elections in November and following a process whose onerous conditions threw obstacles in front of international companies, except, somehow, those from China, from where more than half of the bids came. After sitting on numerous solar plant proposals for years, the National League for Democrac ...

Over 45,000 households and organizations in the country have installed rooftop solar panels, whose prices have been falling rapidly in recent years. Le Anh Tuan, lecturer at Can Tho University in southern Can Tho City, spent VND130 million ($5,600) to install a 3.9 kWp rooftop solar power system in his home four years ago and is now enjoying the fruits of his investment.  Tuan was able to save up to VN ...

AC Energy Inc., the power unit of the Ayala Group, will build two new solar plants in Central Luzon as it continues to expand its renewable energy portfolio. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, ACEN said the two projects, with a combined cost of about P6.2 billion, would have an aggregate capacity of up to 150 megawatts (MW). One project will involve a 75-MW facility located in Araya ...

Leading solar module makers have pushed into powerful new territory this year. Leading the pack is Trina Solar’s 600W Vertex series module which will reach the market next year, once the company reaches mass production of its Vertex 550W series later in year. Using a 210mm cell, Trina Solar head of product and marketing Asia Pacific Lim Cheong Boon says a 6 x 10 configuration is sufficient to deliver 600 wa ...

Thermal energy storage firm Sunamp has raised £4.5 million in Series A funding to help support its international expansion. The investment round was led by a £3.2 million investment by Chilean venture capital firm Aurus Capital, with Scottish Investment Bank and existing private investors key participants in the round according to Sunamp. The funding will support its commercial scaling in the UK as well as ...

                               Imagine the environmental benefits if we could all simply paint solar cells onto the roof of our houses, or onto any surface for that matter. We could do this using perovskite solar cells (PSC), but, due to their instability, they have not yet been widely introduced. Now, researchers from the  ...