The Future Price of Electricity in Europe
Wednesday, 07 September 2022
Due to the shrinking of the fossil fuel markets, the wholesale price of electricity rose significantly in many countries in the first half of 2022, especially in Europe. As a result of gas prices rising to over five times the value of the reference period, power prices in many European markets reached three to four
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The Case for New Electric Interconnectors
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The European Council of October 2014 endorsed the proposal of the European Commission of May 2014 to extend the current 10% electric interconnectors target to 15% by 2030 while considering the cost factors and potential commercial exchanges in the relevant regions. How we produce and use energy relies heavily on interconnectors. Clean energy from renewable sources like
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Liquid Air Energy Storage Explained by a Developer
Wednesday, 03 August 2022
Here follow 5 questions Green Dealflow asked phelas, an innovative company focusing on a particular energy storage technology to foster the energy transition: liquid air energy storage. What problem does phelas solve? Phelas was founded to turn a very simple vision into reality: We want 100% renewable power to be a no-brainer everywhere on this
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New Rules on Authorization Procedures for Renewable Energy Plants
Friday, 29 July 2022
The following article explains the introduction of new frameworks in regard to renewable energy installations in Italy according to the official decree. On July 14, the Senate renewed its confidence in the Government by definitively approving, in the text dismissed by the Chamber, the bill for the conversion, with modifications, of the Decree-Law no. 50 of
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Zinc-ion battery storage – Q&A with Enerpoly
Friday, 22 July 2022
Here follow 6 questions Green Dealflow asked Enerpoly, an innovative company trying to put zinc-ion batteries on the table of energy storage technologies to foster the energy transition and diversify the need for critical minerals required for lithium-ion batteries. 1. What is the Enerpoly innovative perspective on zinc-ion energy storage? Enerpoly develops and manufactures zinc-ion
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The Global Picture of Energy Investments
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
High prices, rising costs, economic uncertainty, energy security concerns, and climate imperatives amount to a powerful cocktail of factors bearing on global energy investments. IEA´s tracking and forecast estimate that global energy investments are expected to rise 8% in 2022, reaching around 2.4 trillion. However, around 200 billion is being driven up by higher costs
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The Current PV Global Supply Chain
Friday, 08 July 2022
The global solar PV supply chain has seen a big shift in geographical hubs in the last 10 years with Europe, the USA, and Japan being overtaken by Chinese production. In 12 years, the PV cells global manufacturing capacity jumped from almost 25 GW (2010) to more than 220 GW (2022), with China currently weighing up
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The Ultimate Guide on Agrivoltaics in Italy
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
The Italian authority has published the formal general guidelines regarding agrivoltaics. This document was developed and published within a working group coordinated by the ministry of ecological transition – the department for energy and provides precise definitions of agrivoltaic systems, separating agrivoltaics from advanced agrivoltaics. Agrivoltaic plant is the one which: i) adopts innovative integrative
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Solar & Wind Quarterly Transaction Review, Q2 2022
Friday, 01 July 2022
Green Dealflow has published the transaction review for the second quarter of 2022: the full dataset for solar and wind transactions closed in this period is available here. The content is a key tool to get a clear picture of the market by the country´s records on renewable energy. To gain the possibility to jump into
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The Future of Energy Storage
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
In May 2022 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the report “The Future of Energy Storage”, founded by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Heising-Simons Foundation.Energy storage enables cost-effective deep decarbonization of electric power systems with high wind and solar penetration. Deep decarbonization will require massive investments in multiple energy storage technologies, as well
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Agrivoltaics: The New Frontier
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
“It’s now or never” is the succintest way to abbreviate the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). If the world is going to avoid the worst of the climate crisis, climate mitigation needs to happen now and with greater impact. Specifically the world needs to reduce global carbon emissions by 2025
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Airborne Wind Energy: Q&A With a Developer
Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is “the conversion of wind energy into electricity using tethered flying devices”. The research began in 1980, in 40 years interest and investment in AWE have grown substantially, especially in the last decade, with approximately 70 active research entities including over 20 technology developers globally. Research found “potential for, and technical viability of,
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Italy’s “Energy Decree” – Innovations and Observations Regarding Renewables
Friday, 27 May 2022
You can find the original article from Watson Farley & Williams about the Italian energy decree here. We present an overview of the main amendments introduced by the Energy Decree, focussing on the photovoltaic (“PV”) and wind power sectors. I. SIMPLIFICATIONS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS Extension of the simplified authorisation procedure (PAS) – Legislative
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The Importance Of Grid Codes In Renewables Scenarios
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
An increasing number of countries aim to replace polluting conventional generators with clean renewables. It is expected that this would lead to solar and wind production covering almost 80% of the total generation. The change in the electric system going from dispatchable conventional generators to renewables production will require investments and support from TSOs, market
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All the Benefits of including Storage in your Solar Project
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Energy storage is going to be one of the most important technologies in the shift toward clean energy systems. Because solar panels and wind turbines don´t operate continuously due to the intermittency of solar radiation and wind currents, the owner of these projects are forced to sell the electricity when these resources are available, and
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Chart: What will a net-zero grid energy mix actually look like?
Wednesday, 04 May 2022
Massive amounts of new wind and solar will be a make-or-break ingredient of a net-zero grid. Solar power generated less than 4 percent of the world’s electricity in 2021; by 2050, solar’s share needs to jump to 33 percent. Wind power produced less than 7 percent of electricity globally last year; by 2050, that needs to grow to 35 percent. So said the International Energy Agency last year when it laid
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Italian solar sector defines standards for agrivoltaics
Friday, 22 April 2022
Italian renewable energy associations ANIE Rinnovabili, Italia Solare, and Elettricità Futura have released a joint position paper defining a series of standards for agrivoltaics projects. A document compiled by three Italian renewables associations identifies with extreme precision the area that is allowed to be used for power generation in the two most common agrivoltaics configurations — solar arrays with elevated
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Solar & Wind Quarterly Transaction Review, Q1 2022
Friday, 08 April 2022
Green Dealflow has published the transaction review for the first quarter of 2022: the full dataset for solar and wind transactions closed in this period is available here. The content is a key tool to get a clear picture of the market by the country´s records on renewable energy. To gain the possibility to jump into
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Robots Disrupting The Wind Turbine Maintenance Industry
Wednesday, 06 April 2022
In an effort to combat global warming, wind turbines are on the rise. In order to make wind energy more efficient, turbine size is increasing. Wind energy is the cleanest form of energy, but there is a problem. The potential energy from wind is lost due to various technical issues – such as cracks, lightning
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Italian Fer Observatory On Renewables 2021
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Renewables on the rise: + 70% compared to 2020 with 1,397 MW. It is essential to accelerate to reach the 2030 goals. According to the RES Observatory created by ANIE Rinnovabili, an association of ANIE Federation, based on the data from Terna of 2021 there is a cumulative total of 1,376 MW of renewables divided
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Green Electricity For Companies Through Power Purchase Agreements
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Companies should now develop strategies on how to switch to renewable energies through Power Purchase Agreements. Key facts If you want to operate sustainably, you should deal intensively with how the future energy supply can be secured. To this end, companies should start in good time to set up an appropriate procurement strategy that takes
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Solar and Wind Tenders & Auctions, February 2022
Friday, 04 March 2022
At Green Dealflow we provide knowledge regarding investments opportunities and business strategies to contribute to a more sustainable society. As our aim is to facilitate investments in the renewable energy industry, we collect the officially announced schemes and deliver the updated version of solar and wind tenders and auctions to our audience on a monthly basis. You can
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Italy Invests 18 Billion On Electricity Connections For The Green Transition
Wednesday, 02 March 2022
The infrastructure plan of the Italian Transmission System Operator will contribute to the green transition, with more than 30 electricity connections. The investments aim to strengthen the grid, avoid bottlenecks, and ensure the security of supply. The South part of the country, where is the greatest production of green electricity, also suffers from diffused
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The Italian Energy Prices Have Never Been Higher
Wednesday, 09 February 2022
The cost of electricity in Italy has never been higher. This is what emerges from the data published by Arera, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks, and the Environment. In the first weeks of 2022, the Italian energy prices per MWh had an average of 216,35 €. According to the same authority, the price is composed of 80.8% of energy, 8.4% of transportation and meter, and 10,8% taxes, while the system fees have been deducted from the government for the last quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022. The main driver of such a huge increase is found in the cost of energy: in the last period, from the third to the fourth quarter of 2021, the price went from
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Solar and Wind Tenders & Auctions, January 2022
Friday, 04 February 2022
At Green Dealflow we provide knowledge regarding investments opportunities and business strategies to contribute to a more sustainable society. As our aim is to facilitate investments in the renewable energy industry, we collect the officially announced schemes and deliver the updated version of solar and wind tenders and auctions to our audience on a monthly basis. You can
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Upcoming Capacity Market Auction for Storage Projects in Italy
Wednesday, 02 February 2022
The Italian electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Terna initiated the procedure for electricity generators to take part in the 2024 capacity market auction at the end of November 2021 with the aim of holding the competition on 21 February 2022. Terna will hold the third auction round for the capacity market (2024) on February 21, 2022, after having
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Energy storage appears to be fully charged for exponential growth
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Lithium-based energy storage volumes in the U.S. are expected to grow by multiple orders of magnitude in the coming years, with a 1000% capacity increase by 2023. You can see the original article here. Lithium-based energy storage volumes deployed to the United States will grow by multiple orders of magnitude in the coming years, with
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Solar and Wind Tenders & Auctions, December 2021
Thursday, 13 January 2022
At Green Dealflow we aim to provide important information regarding investments opportunities and business strategies to contribute to a more sustainable society. Every month we collect the officially announced schemes and deliver the updated version of solar and wind tenders and auctions to our audience. You can read more articles and news on our blog here. During the
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Solar and Wind Annual Transaction Review, 2021
Friday, 07 January 2022
Here you can see the annual solar and wind transaction report from Green Dealflow for 2021. This report´s data comes from Green Dealflow´s solar and wind Transaction Database, which is filled with all the transactions publicly announced during the year around the globe. This report contains six sections: Overview of global deals and gross capacity transacted, Comparative data between 2020 and 2021, Top 20 countries by number of deals, Top 25 sellers by number of deals and MW transacted, Top 25 buyers by number of deals and MW transacted, The lifecycle stage of MW transacted each month. This article aims to describe and provide insights regarding the data within each of the sections, underlying recent developments and market trends that happened in 2022. You can get access to the report here. Solar Industry In 2021 a total of 238 transactions in solar projects have been recorded, a
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Solar and Wind Tenders & Auctions, November 2021
Tuesday, 07 December 2021
Green Dealflow we aim to provide important information regarding investments opportunities and business strategies to contribute to a more sustainable society. Every month we collect the officially announced schemes and deliver the updated version of solar and wind tenders and auctions to our audience. You can read more on our blog here. During the first months of 2022 new
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