Lux’s analysis found that across all renewable energy carriers, low-cost solar energy can be delivered to resource-constrained regions at 50% to 80% lower cost than generating that solar energy locally under less favorable conditions.
Lux Research

Decarbonizing the global energy trade

The future global energy trade will be electric using high-voltage AC or DC transmission lines, a new Lux Research report says.

Leaders of our industry: Willemijn Davidson of Van der Valk
Van der Valk Solar Systems

Leaders of our industry: Willemijn Davidson of Van der Valk

Every week we introduce you to one of the movers and shakers of some of the leading companies in the solar and renewables industries:

Solar farms can have a positive impact on biodiversity.
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PV highlighted in new EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies

Solar plays an important role in the new Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies of the European Commission.

SolarWelt site in Langenwetzendorf/Germany with a 24,000m² hall.
Heckert Solar

Germany: Heckert Solar expands module production capacity

Subsidiary SolarWelt will start production of solar modules in Langenwetzendorf, Thuringia/Germany, in the first quarter of 2021. In the first stage of expansion the production capacity in 4-shift operation will be around 400 MW.

Renewable pipeline shows evidence of developer appetite
Malte Forstat

Renewables pipeline shows evidence of developer appetite

Research from Cornwall Insight’s Renewables Pipeline Tracker reveals there is ample evidence of developer appetite for future renewables investments in the UK.

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SolarPower Europe: new Finance Workstream to accelerate investments in solar

SolarPower Europe has launched a new Finance Workstream to help shape the agenda of the European Green Deal Investment Plan.

Axpo and Green Investment Group expand PPA cooperation to Norway
Green Investment Group

Axpo and Green Investment Group expand PPA cooperation to Norway

Axpo Nordic reinforces its role as a leading marketer of renewable energy in the Nordic countries by concluding two more long-term route-to-market power purchase agreements with UK-based Green Investment Group’s (GIG) wind farms Buheii and Tysvær in Norway.

The 52 GW funding cap in Germany shall be removed in the near future according to a political compromise.
H.C. Neidlein

Germany: New push for PV

The ruling grand coalition in Germany has reached an agreement to remove the solar funding cap and for appropriate distance rules for wind turbines to settlements.

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