Moscow has published a 1.3 GW wind power and 430 MW solar power offer by 2021 New investment opportunities are appearing in the Russian Federation. Putin´s government announced, the past month, that new renewable energy tenders will happen during the next years in two big bid openings. Moscow, that actually generates the 17% of its energy by renewable resources, has the aim on increasing the green energy by a new strategy published on the official website of the ATS (Russian Administrator for Electricity Trading System) the last March 10th, 2017. The roadmap, that can be consulted in the website, clarifies that wind power projects will be selected during the competition: for 2018 - with a total capacity of 250 MW, for 2019 - 300 MW, for 2020 - 240 MW and for 2021 - 500 MW. The results of the selection, that stills open, will be shown by June June 30th 2017. In...
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Saudi Arabia announces 700MW tender of renewable energy
The Arabic country will launch, this year, a tender for 400 MW of wind power projects and other 300 MW of solar The renewable sector is being boosted in the Arabic region. This month we´ve discovered that Saudi Arabia will launch this year a tender for 700 MW of installed capacity in wind and solar energy, mostly aimed at private-sector investors. This strategy will be launched by a pre-qualification round the next February 20. The Tabuk province, in the northwest of the country, is the place where is planned this new investment in renewables that the Saudi Electricity Companany (SEC) will liderate. Although the terms of this tender are not already published, the expect is to attract some of the lowest prices in the sector. As Al-Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia, said the projects will be of "a significant...
France opens the world’s first Solar Road: see how it works
The first solar road has opened this December in a little village of the French region of Normandy Far away from that song of the Australian band AC DC called"Highway to hell" nowadays we can say that we have a "highway to sustainability". Althought it´s only 1-km (0,6 milles) long, not enough to be considered...
10 leading countries in solar energy generation
The solar energy has became one of the main alternatives to the fossil fuel generation market. Today we want to discover which countries are the main generators Renewable energy looks like the best solution to a growing population that, year after year, demands more and more energy. Our Sun, that has been out there for thousand...