As Chip Shortage Winds Down, Bosch Charts New Path For Green Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
CleanTechnica suited up to visit the clean room at Bosch’s chip factory in Reutlingen, Germany to get the inside scoop on the chip shortage, and its solutions.
CleanTechnica suited up to visit the clean room at Bosch’s chip factory in Reutlingen, Germany to get the inside scoop on the chip shortage, and its solutions.
A massive “Green Powerhouse” is taking shape in Eastern Germany, with green hydrogen and flow battery energy storage to gild the wind and solar lilies.
The silicon wafer NexWafe says buh-bye kerf, hello low-cost, lightweight, flexible solar cells.
Germany’s latest onshore wind tender has again been significantly undersubscribed, failing to come anywhere near the 650 megawatts (MW) on offer and awarding only 208 MW, continuing a year-long trend which can be easily traced back to substantial permitting issues.
The German solar PV association has this week called on the German Federal Government to abolish the country’s solar subsidy cap which is fast-approaching and expected to be hit sometime next year.
The latest German onshore wind tender has again been significantly undersubscribed, awarding only 270 megawatts (MW) of a tendered volume of 650 MW, with state permitting again held up as the defining factor constraining results.
Offshore wind manufacturing giant MHI Vestas has been selected as preferred supplier by Spanish electric utility Iberdrola to supply its 9.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for the 476 MW Baltic Eagle project set to be built in German waters of the Baltic Sea.
Renewable energy is expected to cover approximately 38% of German electricity consumption this year, an increase of 2% over 2017, according to the latest figures published on Thursday.
For the second time this year, Germany has awarded all available capacity from its latest mixed wind and solar renewable energy auction to large-scale solar projects, awarding a total combined capacity of 201 megawatts (MW).
German energy company E.ON and Norwegian oil, gas, and wind company Equinor have announced this week that their 385 megawatt (MW) Arkona offshore wind farm has generated its first electricity into the German electricity grid.