South Sudan needs investment from the energy industry in the form of money and technology if the country is to rebuild and stabilize itself. That was the point that Nj Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamberand CEO of the Centurion Law Group, made in a keynote at the...
BRIC bank loans of $300 million will target Russian renewable energy projects in the Far East. The loans will finance projects in wind, solar, and small hydropower energy generation technologies. Russia is increasingly targeting its Far Eastern regions as it intensifies its strategic policy goals in Asia. Owned...
Spanish wind power solutions provider Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) is building what it claims is the world's largest wind blade testing rig. The Siemens wind blade testing rig is to be located at its facilities in northern Denmark. The new facility will be capable of performing full-scale tests...
SFC Energy hybrid power solutions deliver power to remote locations. Simark Controls, a subsidiary of SFC Energy has received an order for turnkey EFOY Hybrid power solutions to provide reliable clean power in Canada’s Yoho National Park. Simark signed the contract with Okanagan Aggregates Ltd., a leading Western Canadian...
The government of Serbia will guarantee a EUR 307 million in loan to invest in new renewable energy power plants and overhaul coal-fired power plants. A Serbian government representative said that guarantees are necessary to continue the implementation of major infrastructure projects. About BAM 300 million (around EUR 153.5 million) is...
China will invest US$15 million to build a solar panel plant in Zimbabwe to produce 500 solar panels per day. The Chinese firm Yaowei Technology will make the investment that is expected to significantly address the ongoing electricity shortages causes by low water levels in the Kariba Dam and obsolete...
The Kovačica wind farm launched the trial run at the beginning of the year and has been fully operational since July 12. The other 4 operational wind farms in Serbia are the 500 kW Devreč 1 (2012), the 9.9 MW Kula (2016), the 6.6 MW La Piccolina (2016), and...
Nigerian distributed utility company, Arnergy, announced it has raised $9 Million in a Series A round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund), EDFI ElectriFI and All On. The company’s distributed renewable energy systems combine solar power, storage solutions...
Despite subsidy cuts which dramatically stalled the growth of solar installations, China retained the global distinction as the most attractive renewable energy market in 2019, according to EY’s latest Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) report. The report, which ranks 40 countries on the attractiveness of their renewable energy investment...
The “2019 International Forum on Clean Power Technology and Engineering & CHN Energy International Forum on Clean Energy”, jointly hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and CHN ENERGY, was held in Beijing on May 16-17. Following a theme of “Dedication to Clean Power and...
