The ambitious Microsoft is on its way to becoming the biggest distributed solar company in Singapore.
And why not? As it turns out, this is even safer than developing a utility-scale project, as noted by Brian Janous, Microsoft’s general manager of energy. The tech giant announced earlier this month that it would be procuring 60 megawatts of solar power in Singapore.
South Australia’s ambition to become a global hub for renewables has attracted a chain big names including Neoen, SolarReserve, Elon Musk of Tesla, Sanjeev Gupta, Carnegie, Sonnen the German battery maker as well as Ross Garnaut of Zen Energy.
Australia is set for an energy storage explosion thanks to the plummeting costs of energy storage technologies like battery storage and solar thermal.
Global energy giant Acciona Energy has been selected to transform 1,250 hectares of underutilized state-owned land at Aldoga into a solar energy project supporting hundreds of jobs and delivering long-term community benefits.