Monthly Archives: April 2021

Green hydrogen: A guide to policy making

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Now.Solar

Green hydrogen is an energy carrier that can be used in many different applications. However, its actual use is still very limited. Each year around 120 million tonnes of hydrogen are produced globally, of which two-thirds are pure hydrogen and … Continue reading →

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Oil companies and the energy transition

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Now.Solar

Climate change has become one of the greatest threats of this century to the environment, as well as to global security including health, wealth and political stability. Over the past decade, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2 )emissions have increased 1% annually … Continue reading →

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Antigua and Barbuda: Renewable Energy Roadmap

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ROADMAP Roadmap objectiveLocated between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation consisting of two land masses with a total area of 443 square kilometres. Apart from the … Continue reading →

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Digitalisation & solar in emerging markets

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Now.Solar

DIGITAL SOLAR ENABLING ACCESS TO ENERGY IN OFF-GRID AND UNRELIABLE GRID CONTEXTS Around one billion people – mostly concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – still live without access to electricity, and for hundreds of millions more, the electricity … Continue reading →

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Electric vehicles Setting a course for 2030

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Now.Solar

Introduction Before the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the automotive industry – along with every other industry – electric vehicles were moving steadily into the spotlight. The combined annual sales of battery electric vehicles and plug-inhybrid electric vehicles tipped over the … Continue reading →

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The Renewable Energy Transition in Africa

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Now.Solar

IntroductionOver the coming decades, the countries on the African conti-nent have the opportunity to address two fundamental energy challenges. First, they can achieve universal access to affor-dable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services by 2030, as set out in the … Continue reading →

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Renewables Readiness Assessment: Albania

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION COUNTRY OVERVIEW The Republic of Albania is a coastal country in South East Europe, bordering Montenegro and Kosovo* to the north, North Macedonia to the east, Greece to the south, and the Adriatic and Ionian Seas to the west. … Continue reading →

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Planning and prospects for renewable power: Eastern and Southern Africa

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION Southern and Eastern Africa are endowed with extensive untapped renewable resources. With rapidly declining costs and increasing policy support, solar PV and onshore wind generation technologies have, in recent years, established strong business cases and begun taking off at … Continue reading →

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System Operation: Innovation Landscape Briefs

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Now.Solar

DESCRIPTION Traditionally, electric power systems have been centralised structures organised into generation, transmission and distribution, placing customers at the end of the supply chain. This is a unidirectional structure where electricity generated by large power plants is transported via transmission … Continue reading →

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Post-COVID recovery: An agenda for resilience, development and equality

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Now.Solar

COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL ENERGY LANDSCAPE Because of the lockdowns needed to slow the spread of the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted production and supply chains and slashed the demand for a wide range of goods … Continue reading →

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Renewable Energy Prospects for Central and South-Eastern Europe Energy Connectivity (CESEC)

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Now.Solar

RENEWABLE ENERGY DEPLOYMENT BY SOURCE AND APPLICATION IN 2030 In 2015, the base year for this analysis, solid biomass and hydro power accounted for the bulk of all the renewable energy consumption in the CESEC region. More than half of … Continue reading →

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Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance 2020

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION The landscape of renewable energy finance has evolved significantly in the past few years. Insupport of recent record-setting levels of capacity additions in wind and solar technologies, finance for renewable energy represented 63% of total climate mitigation finance in … Continue reading →

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INNOVATION OUTLOOK THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Now.Solar

Thermal energy storage has the potential to be an important enabler of increased renewables penetration in energy systems.Solar and wind generation is variable across daily and seasonal timescales. Energy system operators can match supply and demand of energy through forms … Continue reading →

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Renewable energy auctions in Colombia:Context, design and results

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Now.Solar

Design of renewable energy auctions Renewable energy auctions are, by far, Latin America’s most widely used policy instrumentin the promotion of renewable electricity (IRENA, 2016). Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay were early adopters, while Argentina, Chile and Mexico have innovated … Continue reading →

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World Energy Transitions Outlook

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION IRENA’s World Energy Transitions Outlook provides the contours of an energy pathway and aconcise set of actions fully aligned with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange and the needs of a just, inclusive and orderly transition. This … Continue reading →

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Myanmar: Solar Investment Opportunities Emerging Markets

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Now.Solar

ENERGY GEOGRAPHYMyanmar is one the most poorly electrified countries in Southeast Asia, with an average electrification rate of only 39% at the end of 2017. Yangon, its largest city and the former capital, consumes almost half of the country’s electricity … Continue reading →

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Digitalisation & solar in emerging markets

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Now.Solar

DIGITAL SOLAR ENABLING ACCESS TO ENERGY IN OFF-GRID AND UNRELIABLE GRID CONTEXTS Around one billion people – mostly concentrated in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – still live without access to electricity, and for hundreds of millions more, the electricity … Continue reading →

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FINANCING THE WORLD’S SOLAR FUTURE THE NEED FOR A SOLAR FINANCE CORPORATION

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Now.Solar

INTRODUCTION Global investments in renewable energy are increasing at an exponential rate. At the start of the century, between 2000 and 2009, this sector drew total investments of US$ 2.6 trillion.1It continued to grow in the subsequent years and peaked … Continue reading →

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Grid Intelligent Solar Unleashing the Full Potential of Utility-Scale Solar Generation in Europe

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Now.Solar

Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation is growing rapidly worldwide. According to SolarPower Europe’s Global Market Outlook 2018 – 2022, more solar PV capacity was installedglobally than any other power generation technology in 2017. Solar alone deployed nearly 100GW, which is … Continue reading →

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EU Market Outlook For Solar POwer 2020-2024

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Now.Solar

EU solar markets 2020 Solar power in the European Union has shown strong resilience in 2020 despite Coronavirus negatively impacting everyone’s lives in many ways. While the solar industry has successfully worked on further reducing costs for solar power generation, … Continue reading →

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The Green Future Index 2021

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Now.Solar

A ranking of 76 economies on their progress and commitment toward building a low carbon future. Introduction Efforts to combat climate change have been taking shape for more than a decade, but, until now, many have largely generated empty words, … Continue reading →

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Unleashing the Potential of Solar Storage

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Now.Solar

UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF SOLAR & STORAGEWhile solar covers around 5% of the European electricity demand today, its contribution could easily increase up to 15% by 2030, it would only take around 20 GW of newly installed PV capacity per … Continue reading →

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The State of Solar: Bracing for a Post-Subsidy Era in China

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Now.Solar

China has led the world in annual solar installation capacity for the last seven years. The success of China’s solar industry is closely observed by the international community, which is looking to see if China’s progress will fulfill the 2030 … Continue reading →

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Solar, the new Gateway to the decentralised Energy System

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Now.Solar

CHAPTER 1. DECENTRALISATION: A new mega-trend in the European power sector For an increasing number of consumers in Europe, distributed generation combined with othersmart solutions represents the perfect way to control their energy bill. Other behavioral factors may of course … Continue reading →

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Putting solar in the driver’s seat Solar Mobility report

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Now.Solar

Looking at the physics, solar is complementary to electric mobility, particularly in certain use cases like day charging at work places or combined with battery capacity at home. Solar has a predictable generation curve and produces electricity during the day. … Continue reading →

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Global renewable energy capacity addition sets new record, despite COVID-19: Report

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Now.Solar

New Delhi: Despite COVID-19 pandemic, more than 260 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy capacity was added globally last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50 per cent, according to a new report.It added that renewable energy’s share of … Continue reading →

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Global Market Outlook For Solar Power / 2020 – 2024

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Now.Solar

GLOBAL SOLAR MARKET UPDATE 2000 – 2019 Overall, 2019 was a decent growth year for the global solar sector, improving with a low two-digit rate after it basically paused the year before. Looking beyond the newlyinstalled worldwide solar capacity, solar … Continue reading →

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AGRI-PV: HOW SOLAR ENABLES THE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION IN RURAL AREAS

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Now.Solar

Executive summaryReaching the ambitious objectives of the European Green Deal will require a profound shift in the EU’s agricultural and energy sectors. Agricultural photovoltaics (“Agri-PV”) offers an innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solution to simultaneously promote sustainable agriculture and the clean … Continue reading →

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NREA TOOLKIT A Guide for National Renewable Energy Associations

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Now.Solar

Getting Started:Setting Up – a National Renewable Energy Association Step 1 – Business plan Setting up a new industry association is relatively easy – sustaining it is much harder. It helps to think through the fundamental aspects early on. This … Continue reading →

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Asset Management Best Practice Guidelines – Version 2

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Now.Solar

Rationale, aim, and scope A professional and dedicated Asset Management (AM) service package ensures that photovoltaic (PV) plants, individually and as part of a wider portfolio, achieve their maximum potential from both technical and financial perspectives.While the depth of services … Continue reading →

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The future of cybersecurity: How renewable power plant controls protect inverters from hacks and attacks

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Now.Solar

The world is changing rapidly as renewable energy penetration increases. Declining renewable energy costs mean it could be feasible to power the U.S. on 90% clean electricity by 2035, according to a study by UC Berkeley and GridLab. Rapid adoption … Continue reading →

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India: Solar Investment Opportunities Emerging Markets Task Force Report

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Now.Solar

FOREWORD SolarPower Europe established its Emerging Markets Task Force in March 2018 to identify business and cooperation opportunities in emerging markets outside of Europe with the aim of contributing to the global energy transition. Since its inception, SolarPower Europe’s Emerging … Continue reading →

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Vietnam proposes heavily-cut solar FIT rates from next month

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Now.Solar

Vietnam is to slash feed-in tariffs available for rooftop solar installations from next month by as much as 38% in a bid to address grid pressures in the country, local media has reported.The Dai Doan Ket newspaper has cited Hoang Tien Dung, … Continue reading →

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National Survey Report of PV Power Applications in China

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Now.Solar

INSTALLATION DATA The PV power systems market is defined as the market of all nationally installed (terrestrial) PV applications with a PV capacity of 40 W or more. A PV system consists of modules, inverters, batteries and all installation and … Continue reading →

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REPORT ON OPTIMAL GENERATION CAPACITY MIX FOR 2029-30

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Now.Solar

Executive Summary The world today is witnessing several kinds of technological disruptions in different sectors. One of the likely disruption in power sector can be replacement of thermal based generation with Renewable energy generation complimented with energy storage technology. This … Continue reading →

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PV WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIN

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Now.Solar

ExECUTIVE SUMMARY:This study aims to analyse the current state of play of the PV waste management landscape in India and to provide recommendations on how to enhance the policy framework around it. A comparison of the EU and Indian regulatory … Continue reading →

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ENERGY STATISTICS INDIA 2021

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Now.Solar

Introduction The history of human evolution rests on the availability and use of energy. From the transformation from the early use of fire and animal power that improved lives, to the present world with use of electricity and cleaner sustainable … Continue reading →

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GROWTH OF ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN INDIA FROM 1947-2020

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Now.Solar

भारत के विद्युत क्षेत्र का 1947 से 2020 तक का सिं र्धनGROWTH OF ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN INDIA FROM 1947-2020 भारत सरकार GOVERNMENT OF INDIA विद्युत मंत्रालय MINISTRY OF POWER के न्‍दरीय विद्युत प्रावर्करण CENTRAL ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY नई विल्ली NEW DELHI … Continue reading →

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Study shows why India should increase renewable energy target of 2030

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Now.Solar

New Delhi: Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have just released a study that demonstrates why India should double down on renewables.The study examines electricity and carbon mitigation costs associated with achieving aggressive renewable energy targets in India’s electricity grid in … Continue reading →

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Space-starved Singapore builds floating solar farms

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Now.Solar

Thousands of panels glinting in the sun stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state’s push to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.It may be one of the world’s smallest countries, but the prosperous … Continue reading →

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