In September, ACWA Power contracted with DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) to build the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at 700 MW with 15 hours of storage, at 7.3 cents per kWh, one of a cascading series in 2017 of bombshell record-low CSP prices in 2017.
Claiming budget cuts, Spain’s ruling conservative party has once again kneecapped solar, this time, it is advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies research at the world famous solar research lab Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in the Tabernas region of Spain, part of the Center for Energy, Environment and Technological Research (CIEMAT).
It’s beginning to look like our democracy is actually better defended against strong-man autocracy than I feared.
The constitution, the fourth estate, the rule of law, have all taken massive hits, but remain standing, and are even eking out surprising wins after literally “unpresidented” assaults from the Oval Office.
In Chile’s last auction for power, SolarReserve bid a world record breaking low price at just 6.3 cents per kWh ($63/MWh) for dispatchable 24-hour solar.
On Tuesday, March 7th, the Trump administration will reverse the Obama administration’s Final Determination requiring automakers meet an average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, according to Inside EPA.
An alliance of manufacturers had urged protection for fuel inefficiency in a letter to Trump EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in February, and the industry request is one of hundreds of industry-requested rollbacks in Obama rules that are now on the chopping block, according to the New York Times.
Will the end of the fossil age as we “leave it in the ground” also mean an end to petro-state corruption and autocratic rule? We’ll see.
Despite the challenges due to its position between European democracies and Putin’s autocracy in Russia, Estonia is looking to increase its clean energy capacity. It has already overshot its clean energy generation targets for 2020.
Renewable energy companies from three EU member nations — Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands — have just announced they will finance and build a total of 735 megawatts of wind power in Russia, the most dangerous petro-state on NATO’s border. Finland, which shares a long land border with Russia, has repeatedly been … [continued]
The idea of the president of any normal country also owning one of its largest assets and using his office to protect it seems outrageous. Putin used his position to gain wealth for himself and a small group of cronies, and is trying to prevent sanctions from reducing the value of that wealth.
At a time when Trump attempts to recreate the US as an autocrat-run petro-state like Putin’s Russia, renewable developers are beginning to build gigawatt scale projects globally. One response? Russian Military threat.
