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POWER Notebook: Deriva Energy Launches; Arizona Gets New Battery Factory; Mini-Grids For Africa, Asia

POWER Magazine

Brookfield Asset Management announced the launch of Deriva Energy, the new name for Duke Energy’s former unregulated commercial renewables business that Brookfield acquired earlier this year.

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BBOXX Lands $50M Led by Mitsubishi to Boost Off-Grid Solar in Africa, Asia

GreenTechMedia

BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. Roughly 600 million of Africa’s 1.2 billion at the end of 2018. Overall, the solar home system market has raised more than $1.1

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Enlit Africa and industry leaders showcase power and energy industry development

Smart Energy International

On the face of it, the power sector in Africa seems to be in trouble. The role of Africa in the world’s energy future is changing as efuels are touted as the answer to the current challenges facing traditional energy systems. VIEW THE ENLIT AFRICA PROGRAMME. Storage and renewable energy. Hydrogen future.

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Smart Energy Finances: Decarbonisation purchasing moves up the ESG agenda

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. Series A for silicon Li-ion battery anode. Microgrid debt financing.

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Smart Energy Finances: Funding for Capalo AI’s market optimisation platform

Smart Energy International

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is pre-seed funding of half a million euros for Finnish startup Capalo AI, which will further develop its virtual power plant and market optimisation technology. This has led to the construction of batteries next to the turbines, which enables the energy to be discharged into the grid more evenly.

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A global forum to catalyse India’s clean energy transition

Smart Energy International

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India. Have you read? ABOUT DISTRIBUTECH INDIA.

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Forecast: 8 million energy jobs created by meeting Paris agreement

Renewable Energy World

Globally, jobs in the energy sector are projected to increase from 18 million today to 26 million in 2050 if the world cuts carbon to meet the well-below 2°C target set by the Paris Agreement , according to a model created by researchers in Canada and Europe. Such cuts will necessitate a greater reliance on sustainable energy sources.