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Most of the deployed capacity comes from utility scale solar plants selected in the country's tender scheme for renewables.Russia registered a newly installed PV capacity of 233 MW last year, which means ....
Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Posts shared more than 200,000 times on Facebook in February 2021 allege that Germany’s renewable energy supply failed after snow covered solar panels and wind turbines froze. This is false; figures show that the country’s electricity production from these sources experienced no significant decrease, and the photo used to illustrate the claim was taken in Russia. “Germany’s millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice,” one Facebook user wrote in a February 11, 2021 post that included a photo of a snow-covered solar panel farm, adding: “It’s 30,000 Wind Turbines are not turning in the Freezing, Windless Weather.COAL plants to the RESCUE!” ....
Russia to tender 500 MW of solar in 2021 The country s cumulative installed PV capacity reached 1.7 GW at the end of 2019, as a result of the grid-connected projects tendered by the Russian government between 2014 and 2019. The remaining 500 MW quota of the 2.2 GW tendering scheme should be assigned this year. The Russian government will tender another 500 MW of solar capacity this year in the frame of the program for large scale renewables that it launched in 2014. Around 1.7 GW of solar capacity was online in Russia at the end of 2020, Anton Usachev, president of the Russian Solar Energy Association, told pv magazine. This capacity . ....