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First Solar’s Ohio manufacturing complex given top rating in RBA audit

Friday, 10 June 2022 First Solar has announced that its 2.7 gigawatt vertically integrated manufacturing complex in Ohio has achieved Platinum status in a Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Validated Assessment Program (...

Increasing Electric Vehicle take-up will strain Australian electricity distribution systems says Cornwall Insight Australia

Friday, 10 June 2022 Data from Cornwall Insight Australia has shown the challenges facing local electrical distribution systems as more people make the switch to electric vehicles (EVs). The high and random energy consum...

Green hydrogen company Protium announces it has secured £40.5 million of funding

Friday, 10 June 2022

UK green hydrogen company Protium has secured £40.5 million investment in its latest funding round led by SWEN Capital Partners, through its SWIFT 2 fund.

Japanese researchers investigating thin-film solar cells that react to indoor lighting

Friday, 10 June 2022 Using a piezoelectric semiconductor, scientists at Ritsumeikan University in Japan have demonstrated improved photovoltaic cell performance that is highly responsive to indoor room light illumination....

DEME’s next generation vessel ‘Orion’ successfully installs first monopile at Arcadis Ost 1

Friday, 10 June 2022 DEME Offshore has successfully installed the first XXL monopile at Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany deploying ‘Orion’ - the newest member of the DEME fleet and the most inn...

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator launches first cleantech loan fund

Friday, 10 June 2022 The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has announced the launch of its nationwide LACI Cleantech Debt Fund, a first-of-its-kind green loan program to scale early stage cleantech startups and accel...

Polestar begins delivering new Polestar 2 electric cars to Hertz

Thursday, 09 June 2022 Swedish electric performance car manufacturer Polestar has begun delivering new Polestar 2 electric cars to Hertz as part of an agreement announced in April 2022 under which the company will supply th...

Octopus Energy enters German renewable generation market with first wind farm investment

Thursday, 09 June 2022 Octopus Energy Group’s generation arm, one of the largest investors in solar and wind energy in Europe, has signed its first renewable generation deal in Germany, helping to boost the country’s en...

Japan and Egypt join international technology study accelerating global path to net zero

Thursday, 09 June 2022 The Net Zero Technology Centre announced the addition of two new research centres who will contribute expertise to the centre’s anticipated international technology study, working to identify key en...

Plug Power to build large-scale green hydrogen plant in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Thursday, 09 June 2022 Plug Power, a provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, has announced it will build a 35-tons-per-day green hydrogen generation plant at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges....

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