Year: 2020

New research published this week by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has highlighted the “untapped potential” of combining floating solar PV projects and hydropower plants. According to the NREL’s research, hybrid systems combining floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the “technical potential” to produce a “significant portion” of the necessary electricity generated across the globe. Published in the journal Renewable Energy, the authors determine that adding floating solar panels to bodies of water that are already in use as hydropower stations could yield…

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Europe must not repeat the same mistakes it made with solar manufacturing in the emerging hydrogen sector, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. A string of European research institutes and pioneering companies developed much of the technology still in use in PV panels today. But as solar began to scale in multiple international markets, coordinated national and regional support allowed Chinese manufacturers to get the upper hand over their rivals. Support in the forms of cheap land and warehouse facilities, as well as feed-in tariffs, helped companies like…

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Green hydrogen” made with wind and solar electricity could become the cheapest form of what the Australian government has described as a “transformative fuel” much faster than expected, analysts believe. Chinese manufacturers have reported making systems to create hydrogen with renewable energy for up to 80% less than official Australian estimates from just two years ago. Energy analysts said it suggested green hydrogen was likely to leapfrog hydrogen made with gas and coal as the most cost-effective form of the energy before the end of the decade, and by the…

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1st Virtual Conference on Solarization of Pakistan will be held on October 07th to discuss more opportunities to produce clean energy from Solar as currently 430MW 6 Solar Projects are operating in the country.The Energy Update in collaboration with Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), Ministry Energy Punjab, Pakistan Solar Association, Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Paktunkhuwa Electric Development Organization (PEDO) is organizing the conference to be participated by energy experts from within and outside the country through digital platform.Chief of organizing committee of the summit Naeem…

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Rejecting the construction of the city over twin islands of Dingi and Bhundar, Sindh’s civil society and political parties have announced resistance against the ordinance to constitute Pakistan Islands Development Authority. In this regard, a joint consultative meeting was organized by Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Indigenous Rights Alliance, and Aurat Foundation at a local hotel. Chairman PFF Muhammad Ali Shah, Human Rights Advocate I.A. Rehman, PILER’s Executive Director Karamat Ali, and others addressed the meeting. In this regard,…

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