Energy-hungry Singapore eyes deserts, forest for renewables :
This week Australia announced a massive solar farm that it hopes will eventually offer two gigawatts (GW) of power to Singapore via undersea cable. Singapore aims to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, but it relies heavily on imported oil and gas.
China crushes clean energy goal, still polluting more than twice the U.S :
China is celebrating reaching a clean energy goal six years ahead of schedule, but a glut of renewable generation capacity isn’t putting much of a dent in its pollution problem.
According to a statement from the National Energy Administration, China added 25 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity in July, expanding the nation’s total clean energy capacity to 1,206 GW. In 2020, President Xi Jinping established the goal of having at least 1,200 GW of renewable energy resources by 2030. China is on track to add 70 GW of installed wind power capacity and 190 GW of solar capacity by the end of 2024, per the statement.
The SolarSnitch is here to save DERs from cyber-attacks :
Distributed energy resources (DER) are emerging all over the grid edge, and having the ability to communicate with grid edge devices and equipment is becoming more important. However, this also means a threat vector is growing, and one that could impact grid stability.
A new technology developed by Sandia National Laboratories, called SolarSnitch, aims to address this emerging cybersecurity gap by securing photovoltaic (PV) communications within DER systems at the grid edge. It uses inspection tools to analyze cyber and physical data in PV smart inverters and custom machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect potential cyber-attacks.
Aussie plan to build ‘world’s largest’ solar farm moves forward :
An ambitious plan to build a massive solar farm in remote northern Australia that would transmit energy by submarine cable to Singapore is a step closer after the Australian government granted environmental approvals for the 30 billion Australian dollar ($19 billion USD) project Wednesday.
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