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Europe’s Mass Acquisition of Used Cooking Oil for Biomass Fuel May Result in Deforestation in Southeast Asia

published: 2021-05-11 9:30

Used cooking oil possesses numerous reuse values, such as being refined into biomass fuel, and various countries in the EU have imported a large amount of used cooking oil to produce biomass fuel. However, a recent research of Dutch environmental advisory group CE Delft indicates that the sizeable demand for used cooking oil in Europe may exacerbate the deforestation in Southeast Asia, and is not all that eco-friendly in reality. ... more

Washington Will Become the First State to Allow Sales of Only BEVs in 2030, Excluding HEVs

published: 2021-05-11 9:30

Washington State legislature recently passed the Clean Cars 2030 bill, making it the first state to ban the sale of fossil fuel vehicles in the US. Prior to this, California had set a similar deadline of 2035. ... more

Pristine Silicon Solar Cell Built by Nanostructure to Exceed 26% in Conversion Efficiency

published: 2021-05-10 9:30

Solar energy has become a relatively competitive source of power generation, though an improvement on the existing technology and a further elevation in the conversion efficiency is certainly a good thing. German scientists have recently integrated a nanostructure with a solar cell that is completely different in design to produce a solar cell that may achieve a conversion efficiency of 26%. ... more

Amazon to Invest Another 9 Projects of Green Electricity and Become the Largest Green Electricity Buyer in Europe from Wind Power Transactions

published: 2021-05-10 9:30

Being a member of RE100, Amazon aims to achieve 100% renewable energy in 2025, and currently has 62 units of public large-sized wind and solar farms planned. The company has now announced on the purchase of over 1GW green electricity, for which the investment on the 9 units of renewable energy farms pushes up Amazon’s investment in renewable energy to 206 units. ... more

Pristine Silicon Solar Cell Built by Nanostructure to Exceed 26% in Conversion Efficiency

published: 2021-05-10 9:30

TSEC Receives Orders for 240MW Projects from Largest PV Facilities in Taiwan, Stands to Make NT$2.5 Billion Profit

published: 2021-05-07 9:30

TSEC recently announced that it had received orders for 240 MW of solar panels from two large-scale PV facilities. The projects are expected to generate about NT$2.3-2.5 billion for TSEC, which will fulfill the orders from April 2021 to February 2022. ... more

TECO to Manufacture Prototypes of Offshore Wind Turbines

published: 2021-05-07 9:30

TECO is rumored to have signed a framework agreement with several domestic and overseas offshore wind power developer and a globally renowned permanent-magnet wind turbine manufacturer for its imminent expansion in the offshore wind power market, and will be producing stator-rotor prototypes for wind turbines. At the same time, TECO will be striving to manufacture the wind turbine prototypes required after 2025 alongside its partners of the agreement. ... more

BEE Signs Agreement with UKA to Develop a 500MWp PV Portfolio in Germany

published: 2021-05-06 9:30

Blue Elephant Energy (BEE) announced on April 15 that its subsidiary BEE Development has signed a framework agreement with Umweltergerechte Kraftanlagen (UKA) to develop a PV portfolio with a generation capacity of 500MWp. BEE is a company that acquires and operates PV and wind projects, while UKA specializes in building turnkey PV projects. Both companies are based in Germany. According to the framework agreement, UKA will design and construct PV projects that will later come under the ownership of BEE. ... more

Spanish Bladeless Wind Turbine Swings Left and Right to Generate Power

published: 2021-05-06 9:30

Are three-blade wind turbines really indispensable for the generation of wind power? Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless has introduced an unconventional “bladeless wind turbine” that exceeded imagination, and wind power generation will no longer be constrained to extensive areas in the future, while the concern on birds and bats is also eliminated at the same time. ... more

First Solar Water Resource Plant in Chile to Filter Drinking Water from the Air

published: 2021-05-05 9:30

The unbearable summer weather in Taiwan is often caused by humidity, which creates an excruciating feeling when the high water vapor content in the air is met with the obstinately high temperature. However, a Chilean startup has discovered the advantage of a high humidity environment, and managed to obtain drinking water from the air using solar energy and hydropanels, where the new plant is able to produce 10,000L of water per month. ... more