World:
¶ According to the new study from Navigant Research, total distributed generation capacity is set to roughly double over the next decade, from 87.3 GW in 2014 to 165.5 GW by 2023. Revenue from distributed generation is expected to surge in tandem with this increase, rising from $97 billion to $182 billion. [Sourceable]
¶ The Indian Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has issued guidelines to set up 100 MW of solar capacity over and along the canals. The program will see solar photovoltaic power projects of capacity 1 to 10 MW installed over canals and on the banks of the canals in India. The total cost of the program will be around $160 million. [CleanTechnica]
¶ An IBM data center in India plans to cut is greenhouse gas emissions by 40% using solar power and water cooling for air conditioning. The data center uses a 50 kW solar PV system that provides electricity to the data servers. Increasingly, companies are looking to set up their own solar power plants to meet their demands. [CleanTechnica]
¶ The Danish utility, DONG, announced over the weekend that it will construct 32 turbines eight kilometres off the coast in Liverpool Bay, which are expected to be commissioned in 2017. The extension to an existing 90-MW wind farm is expected to produce enough electricity to power around 180,000 UK households. [Business Green]
¶ The US Trade and Development Agency awarded grants to three electricity sector entities in support of their efforts to deploy clean energy solutions in the Dominican Republic. The agency is focusing on helping the Dominican Republic meet its energy demands in an environmentally responsible way. [Your Renewable News]
¶ Atlantis Resources Limited’s Canadian subsidiary has been awarded a Developmental Feed-in Tariff for up to 4.5 megawatts of tidal generation to be deployed at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy in Nova Scotia, Canada. The award of $530 per MWh provides support for up to three turbines at the facility. [Your Renewable News]
¶ The Australian Climate Change Authority has recommended that the government change the deadline for the large-scale Renewable Energy Target from 2020 to 2023, rather than risk jeopardising investment by reducing the target itself. This contrasts with the Warburton review of the RET, which called for cutting target. [The Conversation AU]
¶ On India’s southern coast, which was ravaged by tsunami waves 10 years ago when 228,000 people died on the rim of the Indian Ocean, the country’s newest nuclear plant towers over the shoreline. It is one of India’s biggest nuclear plants, and in the coming weeks it is expected to officially start selling power into the Indian grid. [Wall Street Journal]
¶ Computer systems at South Korea’s nuclear plant operator have been hacked, sharply raising concerns about safeguards around nuclear facilities in a country that remains technically at war with NorthKorea. The Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd and the government said there was no risk to nuclear installations. [Reuters]
US:
¶ Solar and wind power projects are much less financially risky than other power projects, since cost overruns tend to be way lower, especially when compared to nuclear or hydropower plants, which have rather insane cost overruns. Aside from these, there are many economic reasons to favor power from the sun or wind. [CleanTechnica]
¶ The US Department of Commerce announced its final findings in the 3-year long trade war between the US and China. Additional tariffs will be imposed on modules from China and Taiwan. Although this is good news for SolarWorld and other American solar PV manufacturers, some in the US solar industry are not celebrating. [AltEnergy Stocks]
¶ Southern California Edison retired its San Onofre nuclear reactors and will retire natural gas units with environmentally troublesome cooling systems, so it invited proposals for power storage and new gas-fired power plants. Storage won in a surprising number of cases. Demand response proposals also did well. [New York Times]
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