Sri Lanka Says No to Thermal Power Plant, Opts for Solar Energy Instead
An island nation in South Asia, Sri Lanka is primarily dependent on its 900 MW coal-based power plant in Norocholai, located 90 miles to the…
24-MW Shizukuishi Solar Power Plant Commissioned in Japan
The Canadian-based Etrion Corporation, in association with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, has successfully completed the construction of a 24.7 MW power plant in the north of…
Kuwait Commissions Its First Solar Power Plant Sidrah 500
In what could be a sign of things to come, Kuwait, an oil-rich country in the Middle East that ranks among the Top 10 producers…
Kingston Solar Raises $633 Million in Financing
Kingston Solar LP broke the record for the highest amount of financing raised by a solar power company by managing to generate $632.97 million in…
ET Solar & Huawei to Build 1-GW Intelligent Photovoltaic Power Plants
ET Solar Group signed a cooperation agreement with Suzhou Huawei Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (Huawei) on October 11 in Shenzhen City – and established a…
50MW Photovoltaic Power Plant Project in Kenya-Largest in East Africa
On September 29, Mr. Charles Keter (cabinet secretary of Kenya's Ministry of Energy and Petroleum), Liu Changlin (vice governor of Jiangxi Province in China), Liu…
Shanghai Provides Solar Power Charging Piles For Electric Cars
Last month, the Shanghai government announced that its first solar power charging station for electric cars had been set up in the south side of…
2015 Renewable Energy Investment Kept Steady, But the Capacity Rose
According to the recent report World Energy Investment 2016 released on 14 September, by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the total amount of the global…
Investors Plow $20MM into BBOXX - an African Off-Grid Solar/Distributed Energy Start-Up
A rather impressive group of clean energy investment companies recently made a $20 million venture capital (VC) investment in BBOXX, a start-up based in Rwanda…
