Bringing the heat: equity within clean heating

DNV has brought its broad experience and deep expertise in solar, power grids and marine engineering in advising a combined 2 GW of floating PV projects worldwide, including Singapore’s Tengeh reservoir and Indonesia’s Cirata FPV projects. DNV also led the collaborative joint industry project (JIP) involving 24 industry participants which produced a set of recommended practices for accelerating the safe, sustainable and sound construction of floating solar projects in March 2021.

For the last 15 years, the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative (BWEC) has been developing tools and science-based solutions to reduce bat fatalities at wind turbines. At the most recent BWEC All Committee Science Meeting, representative stakeholders developed a list of research priorities for 2019 to 2021. This webinar provided a summary of the issues related to bats and wind energy, a brief history of the BWEC, and its current strategy to address bats and wind energy issues.

It is not a secret that the Australian solar market is growing by leaps and bounds; 81% of the top 35 operational projects were connected only in the year 2018. Now is the right time to take stock of how the market has developed, and plan ahead to ensure the long-term success and bankability of Australian solar projects. As a preparation for the inaugural edition of Solar Asset Management Australia, in cooperation with our partner Smart Energy Council, we have joined forces with industry experts from Green Energy Markets (Tristan Edis, Director Analysis & Advisory) and Canadian Solar (Simon Chau, O&M Sales Manager) to bring you a session on the most pressing topics and challenges posed for utility-scale solar in Australia.

The market of on-site solar for C&I customers has started maturing in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last few years. What are the drivers, the business models and the barriers for faster market growth? Antoine Prédour, Head of Energy Debt at responsaAbility, was joined by Takehiro Kawahara, Frontier Power Sr. Associate at Boomberg NEF, and Lydia van Os, Project Manager at Solarplaza, to discuss the main drivers of the C&I-solar market and the current landscape of business players and business models.