Panorama

The 2018 Greenest Schools in Canada Announced

Thursday, 27 September 2018 REM As part of World Green Building Week, the Canada Green Building Council and the Canada Coalition for Green Schools have announced the winners of the annual CaGBC Greenest School in Canada competition: ...

Narec Distributed Energy (Narec DE) provides fully funded renewable energy training

Monday, 17 September 2018 Robin Whitlock One of North East England’s leading renewable energy specialists, Narec Distributed Energy (Narec DE), will be providing full funded accredited training to electricians, plumbers and heating engineers ...

Non-Hydro Renewables Forecast to Comprise 50% of Spain’s Installed Power Capacity by 2030

Wednesday, 22 August 2018 REM According to a report from GlobalData, Spain’s total installed power capacity increased from 55.5 GW in 2000 to 104.4 GW in 2017, at a compound annual growth rate of 3.8 percent. Growth is expected to ...

Companies Collaborate to Accelerate Renewable Energy Development in Illinois and Virginia

Wednesday, 08 August 2018 Dan McCue Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re have signed an agreement to develop two new wind and solar energy farms in Illinois and Virginia. The new projects will generate 290 MW to the PJM electric grid serving ...

Lendlease and Ameresco Partner on $150 Million Energy Security Modernization Project

Sunday, 01 July 2018 REM Australia’s Lendlease, and Ameresco, headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, have partnered to modernize more than 5,800 privatized military housing homes at Island Palm Communities in Hawaii ...

Wärtsilä Launches pv + Storage Solution at Intersolar Europe

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 REM The technology group Wärtsilä has launched a new hybrid solar pv and storage solution. Wärtsilä Hybrid Solar integrates solar pv generation and storage to deliver a “renewables as baseload” solution ...

Falling Battery Costs Will Enable World to Get Half of Needed Energy from Wind and Solar

Tuesday, 19 June 2018 REM Wind and solar are set to surge to almost “50 by 50” – 50 percent of world generation by 2050 – on the back of precipitous reductions in cost, and the advent of cheaper and cheaper batteries that ...

ABB to Install Multipurpose Microgrid in Australia

Monday, 11 June 2018 Dan McCue ABB, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, will supply a microgrid solution to the Energy Storage for Commercial Renewable Integration project in Australia. The solution will connect an ABB Ability PowerStore™ ...

DHYBRID Partners with QOS Energy

Thursday, 31 May 2018 REM

Germany’s DHYBRID has partnered with French company QOS Energy to monitor pv hybrid and energy storage plants.

Panama

Regulatory reform is key to meeting renewables targets in Panama says IRENA

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 Robin Whitlock Upgrades to Panama’s regulatory environment and power system management are critical to achieving the renewable energy goals set out in the country’s National Energy Plan according to a report released ...