Solar and wind can meet world energy demand 100 times over
Huge falls in the cost of solar and wind power in the last few years have unlocked an energy reserve that can meet world demand 100 times over — and Continue Reading
OPEC Fund Helps Finance Egypt’s Largest Private Solar Plant
OPEC’s Fund for International Development is among a group of development banks providing $114 million of loans to build the largest privately-owned solar plant in Egypt. ACWA Power’s 200-megawatt Kom Ombo Continue Reading
Why Are Solar Projects Becoming More Expensive?
The cost of building solar farms has been declining for several years, making solar power increasingly popular with projects of all sizes mushrooming around the world. The tide is now Continue Reading
Inside Clean Energy: What Happens When Solar Power Gets Much, Much Cheaper?
The plummeting price of electricity from solar panels is one of the driving forces aiding the transition to clean energy. Government policies and scientific innovation around the world have helped Continue Reading
USA Needs Much More Land for Solar Net-Zero Goal
Articles about solar power and a pair of LNG projects on two different continents ranked among the more popular articles last week among Rigzone’s downstream audience. Read on for details. Continue Reading
Biden’s Solar Energy Plan Has A Major Space Problem
US President Joe Biden clinched the top role last November on the back of a campaign promise to launch the Clean Energy Revolution in the country, with a chief aim Continue Reading
California’s Solar Industry Is Getting Sunburned
Solar power in California just had a good decade. Thanks to strong policy and, yes, good sun, solar expanded to become a significant proportion of the state’s electricity mix and Continue Reading
CERAWEEK: Solar expected to see more records in 2021 despite facing challenges
The biggest challenges to the utility-scale solar industry are integration, supply chain constraints and a lack of discipline, power industry experts said March 4 at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit Continue Reading
Scientists Warn That Filling The Sahara With Solar Panels Is A Bad Idea
Two years ago, a team of Finnish scientists estimated that the world needs to get 69 percent of its primary energy from solar farms in order to achieve its ambitious Continue Reading
Solar and Wind Are Reaching for the Last 90% of the U.S. Power Market – Bloomberg
Three decades ago, the U.S. passed an infinitesimal milestone: solar and wind power generated one-tenth of one percent of the country’s electricity. It took 18 years, until 2008, for solar Continue Reading