Energy Friday, 15 January 2021 11:26
(Togo First) - Nigerian power developer, Daystar Power, plans to start operating in the Togolese, Senegalese, and Ivorian markets. This is after raising $38 million with the help of the Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU), a Danish bank, and Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
The Nigerian firm, in effect, wants to expand access to solar power in West Africa, to 100 MW from its current capacity of 23 MW.
In Togo, Daystar Power should play a significant role in the government’s ambition to bring the share of renewables in the country’s energy mix to 50%, by 2030. This is one of the objectives of the national electrification strategy under which the whole country is expected to have full access to electricity by the same year.
California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects.
But private microgrid developers argue that the plan doesn’t go far enough to allow private investment to bolster resilience for this year’s fire season, or to meet the mandate of a 2018 law calling for tariffs to allow commercial microgrids to flourish.
The microgrid incentive program approved Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission asks the state’s investor-owned utilities to identify the most cost-effective projects and the most vulnerable communities to be eligible for grants to set up “complex, multi-property microgrids.”
Sharp Energy Solutions Corporation 2has successfully installed solar power systems on the rooftops of two plants in Thailand run by MinebeaMitsumi Inc. The. | January 15, 2021
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Worcester, Massachusetts (Newsfile Corp. - January 15, 2021) - Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. (OTC Pink: MMMW) plans to launch a sales office in Florida during the early months of 2021 in order to take advantage of the fast-growing solar market in the state. The sales operation includes the sales of both traditional stationary solar units and solar projects including the patent pending solar tracker. Initially, the Florida operations would comprise no more than nine employees within a short period of time. The sales effort plans include a sales manager, assistant sales manager, field employees to identify potential sales, and other employees to close the sales. Installations of the solar projects would be done either in house or outsourced on a case-by-case basis. The use of our patent pending solar tracker would only be used on ground mount or flat roof projects.
Metal producer disconnects solar plant from grid, trial started in Ukraine
Kyiv s Commercial Court has begun hearing a case that could be of interest to solar developers with a stake in Ukraine s solar sector, or those looking to buy into the country s energy market. For nearly a year the grid connection of a solar plant had been capped by an adjacent metal producer. The legal proceedings could prove a test for Ukraine s suitality to provide sufficient investor protection, the plaintiff stated ahead of the trial.A case of maintenance work is causing a dust-up in Ukraine as one of the parties involved claims to have fallen victim to oligarchy driven corruption and .