Research Priorities to Address Bats and Wind Energy Issues

Clean Energy Solutions Center and Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) are holding a webinar on "Project Costs for Renewable Generation Projects in the Pacific." Renewable Energy Costs in the Pacific—PRIF analyses the capital costs of large solar photovoltaic, wind,and hydro generation projects built in the Pacific over the past decade. The study focuses on capital costs, while the importance of operation and maintenance costs and the levelized cost of electricity are acknowledged. The large range of project costs for renewable generation projects .

In December 2018, the International Solar Energy Society launched its latest publication Dispelling the Myths - Renewables in the Grid: a set of eight infographics dispelling the most commonly claimed myths about renewable energy integration. When discussing renewable energy, knowledge is key, especially when confronted with commonly claimed shortcomings about renewables and it is ISES' objective to strengthen and support the urgent call for a renewable energy-based energy transformation by sharing the knowledge needed to achieve this revolutionary goal.

The promise of green hydrogen has been around for years. Often doubted due to concerns, the technology seems to be gaining momentum lately. This future grid lab will provide a realistic overview of the challenges and opportunities that hydrogen offers. Gunther Glenk, Doctoral Candidate at Center for Energy Markets at the Technical University of Munich, was joined by Mina Mesbahi, Reserach Analyst at Solarplaza, to explore the economics of converting renewable power to hydrogen. Topics addressed in this webinar: Potential of hydrogen to reduce carbon emissions Barriers to adoption: costs and associated emissions Cost-competitive Power-to-Gas is already possible.

This webinar, organised by SolarPower Europe and supported by GET.invest, – a European programme supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria – aims to gather African and European experts to shed light on the status and potential of solar & storage in Africa and its growth prospects. Across the world, interest has been growing around Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) as a fundamental gearwheel of the energy transition towards a renewable-based power system.