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Sean Jones, Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft Germany, at the Solar Plus 2024 Forum in Berlin.
Forum Solar Plus 2024

Data center boom undermines Microsoft's climate goals

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Microsoft is missing its climate targets due to the boom in data centers and AI. The tech giant wants to counteract this by using more renewable energies, among other things – but it also includes nuclear power in this. The company is not communicating transparent figures on this.

Panelists at the ReBuild Ukraine conference in Warsaw.

Commercial Risk Guarantee Fund can secure doubling of 10 GW RES in Ukraine

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At the international energy conference ReBuild Ukraine in Warsaw, the Commercial Risk Guarantee Fund — a new tool to secure investments in renewable energy—was presented and received already positive feedback from the international financial institutions.

 Markus Elsässer is the founder and CEO of Solar Promotion. In 1991, he launched  Intersolar , today's leading trade fair for the solar industry. Together with Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe, Solar Promotion organizes the largest trade fair alliance for the energy industry in Europe:  The smarter E Europe.
Energy policy

Nuclear power is outdated, expensive and harmful

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The recent kick-off meeting of the "Nuclear Alliance" in Brussels is a signal of backward-looking thinking. It is wrong, expensive and fuels energy from the day before yesterday. Only renewable energies such as wind and solar energy have a future, says Markus Elsässer, CEO of Solar Promotion GmbH.

This is what the large-scale storage facility in Förderstedt is supposed to look like one day. The entire storage plant will have an output of 300 megawatts and a storage capacity of 600 megawatt hours.
Germany

Power storage facility with over 300 megawatts of output

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Europe's largest battery storage plant to date is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the Förderstedt substation near Magdeburg. The entire storage plant will have an output of 300 megawatts and a storage capacity of 600 megawatt hours. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024.

MET Group enters the Romanian solar market.
Eastern Europe

MET Group: PV investment in Romania

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MET Group is taking off in Romania: The Swiss-based energy company has acquired a 100 percent stake in a 52 MW solar project that is currently in a late stage of planning.

Global renewable energy asset investment; Africa renewable energy asset investment.
BloombergNEF

Renewable energy investments in Africa lag behind

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As leaders gather in Egypt for the latest round of UN climate talks with the energy transition and economic development very much on the agenda, new research from BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds that renewable energy investment in Africa trails far behind the rest of the world.

British Isles

Sharp and Midsummer partner up to bring solar business to Ireland

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Sharp Energy Solutions Europe has concluded a partnership with Midsummer Ireland for industrial, commercial and residential solar power systems in Ireland. This collaboration will cover both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Africa can leapfrog to a renewable and reliable energy future and increase energy access
New report Wärtsilä

Lay foundations for Africa’s clean energy future

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The climate change conference COP27 offers a unique opportunity to increase energy access and lay the foundations for decarbonisation across Africa, but wealthy nations must deliver on their climate finance pledges to unlock the continent’s potential, according to a new report.

Coventional versus data center energy storage economics.
IT

Data centers can do more than digitization

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Data centers are often perceived as power guzzlers. However, beyond digitization, they can generate further added value for the environment and society.

Global investment in renewable energy in the first half of 2022 set a new record.
Renewable energy

Record first-half for new investments

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BloombergNEF reports an 11% year-on-year rise in renewable energy financing in the first half of 2022, for a total of $226 billion.

Renewable energy projects can restore degraded ecosystems and remove CO2 emissions.
Eurelectric:

Reconcile climate action and efforts to rebuild biodiversity

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81 % of EU habitats have been severely deteriorated by unsustainable activities. This alarming reality is intrinsically linked to climate change: according to world leading climate and biodiversity experts, greenhouse gas emissions will become the leading driver for ecological loss and agricultural disruptions.

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IMPRESSIVE project develops ground-breaking transparent photovoltaic cells to be used as windows

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IMPRESSIVE project aims at developing the first fully transparent photovoltaic (PV) device with 14% efficiency that will enable to save 15% of energy consumption in European south-oriented façade buildings.

The comparatively small generation plants are located too decentrally for it to be possible to provide for generation outages across the board.
Cyber security:

Renewables ensure stable power supply even during hacker attacks

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A failure of satellite communication with wind turbines in Germany due to a cyber attack has demonstrated the stability of a decentrally organised electricity system. The plants then simply switch to autonomous control.

Kenneth Engblom Vice President, Wartsila Energy, Europe and Africa. The energy company Wartsila (Finland) has a long history of operating in Africa. The company has built power plants in 47 out of 54 countries of the continent.
Sustainability:

Africa’s energy future at a crossroad

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Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way, Kenneth Engblom Vice President, Wartsila Energy, Europe and Africa says.

Brazil:

Sungrow signs 213-megawatt contract with Ibitu Energia

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Sungrow recently closed a 213 MW contract with Ibitu Energia, a Brazilian renewable energy company. As part of the contract, Sungrow will supply its 1,500 volt DC central inverter solutions for the construction of the solar complex in north-eastern Brazil.

Hans-Christoph Neidlein, Senior Editor of pv Europe , comments the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Stand with Ukraine:

No more oil, gas and coal from Russia!

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The impossible has happened. The imperial aggressor Putin invaded Ukraine and is dreaming of a re-established Great Russian Tsarist Empire, without regard for human lives, the rights of sovereign, democratic states and international rules.

Installers working on behalf of Berlin's public utility to get more solar power on the roofs.
European Solar Prize 2021/22:

Eurosolar awards European Solar Prize in ten categories

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The European renewable energy association Eurosolar has awarded the European Solar Prize 2021/22 in Amsterdam. The ten winners range from the French capital Paris to the Swiss organisation Solafrica in Africa.

Blue Eden will be sited along an extensive area of land and water, to the south of the Prince of Wales Dock in the SA1 area of Swansea.
North Wales:

Blue Eden project announced for Swansea

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A £1.7 billion project creating thousands of well-paid jobs and placing Wales at the forefront of renewable energy innovation has been announced by an international consortium.

Fraunhofer ISE:

European glass-glass PV modules particularly climate-friendly

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE have calculated that silicon photovoltaic modules manufactured in the EU produce 40 per cent less CO2 emissions than modules manufactured in China. See here why that is the case:

Pakistan is expected to be a vibrant solar market in the future.
Sungrow:

50-megawatt distribution contract at Solar Pakistan 2021

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As part of its presence at Solar Pakistan 2021, Sungrow signed a 50 MW distribution contract, furthering its commitment to renewable energy and fuelling the national transition to a low carbon economy.

Sustainable power supply in the home with the help of energy management.
IoT:

The Internet of Things as the basis for variable electricity tariffs

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Grid stabilisation through variable electricity tariffs alone is not enough - the right app is needed to optimally manage the connected devices accordingly.

A new report of ACORE states a soaring investor confidence in solar and other renewables and energy storage.
Financing:

Investor confidence in renewables and storage hits all-time high

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A new analysis released by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) finds that confidence among both renewable energy investors and developers is at an all-time high.

Once completed, Lakeside will become the largest energy storage project within RES’ 420MW portfolio.
UK:

RES gets go-ahead for UK energy storage project

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Renewable energy company RES has been given the go-ahead to build a new energy storage project in North Yorkshire, bringing its total energy storage portfolio in the UK and Ireland to 420MW. 

Enqin Gao, Chief Engineer of R&D, observes the voltages of battery cells during the PSoC Cycling test in Hammond Group’s state-of-the-art lead battery lab.
Large-scale storage:

Boom in utility energy storage demand drives advanced battery research

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As part of the new suite of energy storage research projects launched by the Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI), Hammond Group Inc. and East Penn Manufacturing have teamed up to meet the needs of the utility storage market.

Coal power plant of EnBW in Karlsruhe/Germany.
Utilities:

EnBW wants  to be  climate-neutral by 2035

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The German based utility EnBW is aiming to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 and to phase out coal-based electricity generation by 2035 at the latest.