GreenergyDaily

Jul. 17, 2024

1. The world's 1st solar thermal power storage station with 2 solar towers and 1 steam turbine generator started debugging Mon in NW China's Gansu. The plant and its surrounding PV and wind farms will together form a 700,000MW green energy base, yielding 1.8 billion kWh of power a year.

2. The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue proposed rules on connected vehicles next month and expects to impose limits on some software made in China and other countries deemed adversaries, a senior official said Tuesday. "We're looking at a few components and some software - not the whole car - but it would be some of the key driver components of the vehicle that manage the software and manage the data around that car that would have to be made in an allied country," said export controls chief Alan Estevez at a forum in Colorado.

3. BYD plans to build an electric vehicle assembly plant in Cambodia, with the capacity of assembling 20,000 units per year to supply domestic and international markets, according to a news release by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.

4. China's new energy vehicle export rose 13.2% to 605,000 units in the first half of the year from a year earlier, according to data from the CAAM. Neta Auto ranked first among Chinese EV startups with total exports of 17,687 units, up 154% year on year.

5. China's Bohai Oilfield refreshed its offshore gas output record after its 4,400-meter-deep LK7-1-1 well yielded nearly 1 million cubic meters of natural gas and 210 cubic meters of crude oil during a daily production test, its operator said on Monday.

6. BMW began raising the price of nearly all its new energy and combusted-engine models by between CNY30,000 and CNY50,000 (USD4,200 and USD7,000) after the German carmaker announced earlier to exit the price war in China, Securities Times reported.

7. Envision Energy, Jinko Solar, and TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy yesterday signed agreements with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund for the Chinese PV firms to localize the manufacturing and assembly of equipment and components needed for solar and wind power in Saudi Arabia.

8. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has partnered with the world's second-largest manufacturer of solar cell components for a $2.8 billion-power production plant in the Kingdom. A statement from TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co. confirmed the agreement, which is one of three signed off by the sovereign wealth fund on July 16 as it seeks to boost Saudi Arabia's renewable energy sector.

9. A China-designed and developed offshore oil and gas platform has been installed in Xijiang Oilfield in south China's Pearl River Mouth basin, its operator said Wednesday. The behemoth, weighing 30,000 tonnes and towering 198 meters, marks another made-in-China breakthrough.

10. China's installed capacity of non-fossil energy topped 1.57 billion kW by 2023, up 23.9% YoY, accounting for 53.9% of the country's total installed power generation capacity to exceed that of thermal power for the first time, according to a report released Tuesday.