Teos Energy: Agrivoltaic projects, a huge opportunity to maximize land utilization

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In recent years the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has reached a new high level.

To tackle this the Paris Agreement has set out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Additionally, in European countries, zeroing the carbon footprint is now mandated by law.

Besides the climate change crisis, electricity prices increase day by day because of the demand. As a result, there is growing attention toward the usage of renewable sources such as solar power in all industries, and one of them is agriculture.

Agri-PV can be seen as a huge opportunity to maximize land utilization in the high demand for energy and nourishment for which it is critical to collaborate on agrivoltaic projects with farmers and agricultural chambers to raise awareness and increase its usage.

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Saudi Arabia expected to achieve global leadership in solar energy production by 2030: Interview with Desert Technologies’ CCO Majid Al-Refae

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In an interview with journalist Jamal Abdulkhaliq from Global Arabia Communications Network, Eng. Majid Al-Refae shared his thoughts on the future of solar energy in Saudi Arabia, which was held on the occasion of his appointment in April of this year as the new Chief Commercial Officer for Desert Technologies (DT) and its subsidiaries.

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RE-USE of PV modules, challenges and opportunities of the circular economy

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Renewables are set to form the backbones of our future energy system and among them, photovoltaics (PV) has rapidly become one of the most economic energy generation technology. The price of electricity generated by PV has reached a levelized cost of electricity of 5-10 €c/kWh, leading to a major acceleration of its deployment with over 110 GWp of newly installed capacity in 2019 alone. The cumulative installed PV capacity is now 627 GWp and it is expected to reach over 1 TWp by 2025 as predicted by the IEA PVPS. The PV market is largely dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV modules representing 95% of the market share, while thin-film modules remain a niche product. The Terawatt Era of PV modules is approaching fast, and it is raising important questions about end-of-life management as 5 million tons of PV waste by 2030 is projected by IRENA. Embracing a circular economic model for this maturing industry brings a major opportunity to make sure that PV becomes one of the most sustainable sources of energy.

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Key factors for the success of a future energy system model

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The recent heat storm in California, when everything that could go wrong did, caused prolonged and consecutive mandatory interruptions in electricity supply in the State. The heat wave caused the heavy use of air-conditioning, combined with the unavailability of some power plants to meet the demand (and a number of natural gas plants unexpectedly going offline), the insufficient generation of solar and wind and the inability to import energy from other States, inevitably pushed the grid operators to impose these blackouts. Solar generation plummeted in the evening, the winds slowed faster than expected and the same phenomenon happened in other States that California traditionally imports electricity from.

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