GreenergyDaily

Dec 29, 2023

1. The Kenhardt power station, South Africa's largest photovoltaic energy storage power station supported by BYD Energy Storage, is now announced operational. The station is located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. With a capacity of 540 MW and a battery storage capacity of 1.14GWh, the project delivers 150MW of renewable energy daily.

2. The world's largest ethanol production equipment, which can convert coke oven gas into ethanol with an annual output of 600,000 tonnes, went into trial Thursday in E China's Anhui, providing a feasible way for the low carbon development of steel and petrochemical industries.

3. Trina Storage has supplied a 50 MWh storage system to a hybrid fishery-solar-storage project in China. The installation includes 10 2.5 MW/5 MWh battery cabinets and combines sustainable farming with cutting-edge technology.

4. Geely's EV unit ZEEKRGlobal signed a deal with distributor Premium Automobiles in late December to sell two vehicle models in Singapore, the Straits Times reported today. The Zeekr 009 and X will be launched in the Singaporean market, starting deliveries in the third quarter of next year.

5. The Chinese yuan strengthened further against the US dollar today, the last trading day of 2023, clawing its way back to the psychologically important threshold of 7, but over the course of the whole year, the currency has depreciated 1.7 percent.

6. China is on track to become the world's top automobile exporter on an annual basis for the first time, thanks to bigger footholds in Russia and Mexico and a growing global electric vehicle (EV) industry, report informs via Nikkei Asia. China exported 4.41 mln autos from Jan. to Nov., up 58% YoY, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. That puts it ahead of former export leader Japan, which saw a 15% rise to 3.99 million autos in the first 11 months of the year.

7. Russian natural gas exports to China via Power of Siberia 1 pipeline will exceed 22.5 billion cubic metres (bcm) this year, Alexei Miller, the head of state-owned energy giant Gazprom said on Thursday. He said the volumes would exceed the contractual obligations of 22 bcm. Report informs via Reuters.

8. Clean technologies are powering job growth in the global energy sector — with the workforce rising to 67 million last year, according to the International Energy Agency.

9. Recently, the second phase of Zhanatas 100 MW Wind Power Plant Project has been connected to the grid, injecting new vitality into the deepening and expanding of China-Kazakhstan green energy cooperation.

10. A model powered by sodium-ion batteries built by Farasis Energy in partnership with JMEV, an EV brand owned by Jiangling Motors Group, rolled off the assembly line on December 28, according to the battery maker, signaling that the new, lower-cost batteries are closer to being used on a large scale.