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UAE records largest increase in renewable energy capacity
globally in the past decade
The National - Alvin R Cabral + NewBase
The UAE recorded the largest increase in renewable energy capacity worldwide over the past
decade, a new index has revealed, reflecting the government's key focus on enacting initiatives
to achieve its net-zero ambitions.
Capacity in the Emirates surged to 2,540 megawatts in 2020 from a modest 13MW in 2011,
Australia-based aggregator Compare t he Market said in its “Green Fuel Index” report. Capacity in
the Emirates surged to 2,540 megawatts in 2020 from 13MW in 2011 ,The Barakah plant, which will
play a key role in the UAE's strategy of achieving its sustainable energy goals. Photo: Emirates
Nuclear Energy Corporation
“Countries are increasingly relying more on renewable sources, such as wind and solar, for their
energy as they attempt to go green,” the report said.
“The UAE — where renewable capacity has grown by almost 20,000 per cent over the last decade
— has traditionally relied on its plentiful supplies of oil but has recently made a big effort to shift
away from fossil fuels.”
The UAE is expanding efforts to shift to greener technologies under its Net Zero 2050 Strategic
Initiative, which calls for Dh600 billion ($163bn) to be invested in clean and renewable energy
sources in the next three decades. The plan was announced in the run-up to the Glasgow Cop26
summit in November. The UAE won the bid to host Cop28 in 2023.
The plan is a follow-up to the Energy Strategy 2050 programme introduced in 2017 — the first
unified energy strategy in the country to be based on supply and demand — which aims to increase
the contribution of clean energy in the total energy mix from 25 per cent to 50 per cent by 2050.

It also seeks to reduce the carbon footprint of power generation by 70 per cent, thus saving Dh700bn
by 2050, as well as increase consumption efficiency of individuals and corporates by 40 per cent.
The strategy is aiming for an energy mix of 44 per cent clean energy, 38 per cent gas, 12 per cent
clean coal and 6 per cent nuclear to meet the UAE’s economic requirements and environmental
goals.
Aside from harnessing solar energy, the UAE made history with the opening of the Barakah Nuclear
Energy Plant in April 2021, becoming the Arab world's first country to run a nuclear programme.
In its first year, Barakah's Unit 1 prevented the release of more than five million tonnes of carbon
emissions, equivalent to more than one million cars driven for a year. Barakah Nuclear Energy
Plant Unit 2 in Abu Dhabi has been successfully connected to the national grid. Photo: Emirates
Nuclear Energy Corporation
Saudi Arabia has also invested heavily in boosting its renewable energy capacity and was ranked
second after the UAE in the Compare the Market study. The kingdom's renewable energy capacity
surged to 413MW from 3MW over the past decade, it found.
“Like the UAE, Saudi Arabia is another country that has had a strong reliance on oil for its energy
needs but has been pushing towards more renewable alternatives with an increase of over 13,000
per cent in the last 10 years,” the report said.
Barbados, Malta and Bahrain ranked in the top five countries that reported the largest increases in
renewable energy capacity and are the only ones that recorded a capacity growth of at least 10-fold
since 2011.
In terms of producing the highest amount of renewable energy capacity per person, Iceland ranked
first globally, generating 7,830MW for every one million people. The majority of this comes from
hydropower, with a significant amount also coming from geothermal, the report said.
Norway, Sweden, Canada and Austria rounded out the top five in the list dominated by European
countries, with EU member states sourcing an average of 22 per cent of their energy from
renewables — two percentage points ahead of the goal they set in 2009 — according to the World
Economic Forum.
Norway, meanwhile, is the country that relies the
most on green energy at 97.4 per cent, followed
closely by Iceland (97.3 per cent), Andorra (96.9
per cent), Costa Rica (86.8 per cent) and
Switzerland (81.6 per cent).
When ranked by renewable energy segments,
Norway was the top producer of hydropower
during the 10-year period, while South Korea
topped the list in terms of marine power.
Denmark produced the most wind power,
Australia generated the most solar power and
Iceland topped the rankings globally for
geothermal energy.

U.A.E : EGA, GE sign deal to upgrade gas turbines to cut emission
NewABse + TradeArabia
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas,
and GE Gas Power have signed an agreement to upgrade four existing GE 9F gas turbines at
EGA’s Al Taweelah power plant.
The upgrade will reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity, and contribute to the achievement of
the UAE’s Net Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative. The move will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
at the plant by up to 74,000 tonnes annually.
EGA and GE officials sign the agreement to upgrade four GE turbines at EGA's Al Taweelah
power plant. Photo: EGA
GE’s Advanced Gas Path (AGP) upgrade on the four 9F gas turbines will include hardware and
software improvements to drive operational flexibility and increase output, efficiency and availability.
This is the first time the technology will be applied to F-class gas turbines in the UAE, after it was
successfully implemented on six smaller E-class turbines in the country.
GE will also implement the “Live Outage” concept for the first time globally on its 9F fleet. A new
approach to outages, Live Outage is a digitised platform that replaces the paper-based approach,
reducing the risk of mistakes or rework, and speeding up the outage process for customers.
Once the work is complete, power output from the four turbines is expected to increase by up to 72
megawatts (MW) for the same amount of fuel consumed. For the previous power output of 920 MW,
greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by up to 74,000 tonnes annually, the equivalent of
removing more than 16,000 cars from the UAE’s roads.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said: “At EGA, we are committed to
embedding sustainability in everything we do. This includes improving the efficiency of our current
captive natural gas-fired electricity generation fleet even though we plan to divest these assets and
instead source the power we need from the grid. We are pleased to work with GE to further upgrade
the Al Taweelah power plant, and contribute to reducing the carbon intensity of electricity generation
in the UAE.”
In March, EGA, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), Dubal Holding and Emirates Water
and Electricity Company (EWEC) announced a major initiative that would unlock significant further
development of solar power generation capacity in Abu Dhabi, progress power asset and generation
optimisation, and decarbonise EGA’s aluminium production in the United Arab Emirates. TAQA and
Dubal Holding envisage acquiring EGA’s electricity generation assets in the UAE, including the Al

Taweelah power plant. The power generated from the assets would be supplied to the grid under a
long-term power purchase agreement.
Joseph Anis, President & CEO of GE Gas Power Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: “We are
honoured to collaborate with EGA to further enhance the performance of the Al Taweelah power
plant.
Billions of dollars have been invested in the existing installed base of gas power generation assets
in the UAE and around the world. This equipment often has lifespans of 20-40 years and will not all
simply be retired.
However, upgrade solutions such as the AGP offer a practical means to reduce the carbon footprint
of the installed base in as little time as a few months. They also enable gas infrastructure to continue
to play a critical role in the energy transition by complementing variable renewable energy resources
with reliable, flexible, on demand power that can help with grid stabilisation.”
Under the service agreement, GE will provide repairs, maintenance and parts for ten 9F gas
turbines, ten generators and other equipment at the plant. The collaboration represents a
continuation of the services that GE has already been providing at the site since production began
in 2009.
EGA is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the company’s metal is the largest
made-in-the-UAE export after oil and gas. EGA currently has captive power plants at both Jebel Ali
and Al Taweelah to meet its electricity needs and is the biggest electricity generator in the UAE after
the Dubai and Abu Dhabi utilities, the statement said.
Today, up to 300 GE-built units support generation of up to 40 percent of the UAE’s power. The
company’s investments in the country include GE’s Jebel Ali Service Center in Dubai, which
provides state-of-the-art maintenance, testing and repairs solutions for generators and gas turbines
and is the only facility of its kind across the Middle East and North Africa.
EGA and GE also recently announced that they would develop a roadmap to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from the operation of EGA’s existing GE natural gas turbines by exploring hydrogen
as a fuel, as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage solutions.

Russia dominates nuclear power supply chains — and the West
needs to prepare now to be independent in the future
Catherine Clifford@IN/CATCLIFFORD/@CATCLIFFORD
KEY POINTS
 Russia is a dominant player in global supply chains of nuclear reactor technology, as is
detailed by a new paper published Monday from Columbia University’s Center on Global
Energy Policy.
 There were 439 nuclear reactors in operation around the globe in 2021, and 38 of them were
in Russia, an additional 42 were made with Russian nuclear reactor technology, and 15 more
under construction at the end of 2021 were being built with Russian technology.
 Russia owned 40% of the total uranium conversion infrastructure in the world in 2020, and
46% of the total uranium enrichment capacity in the world in 2018, according to the report.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed countries around the globe to wean themselves from Russian
oil and natural gas.
Parallel conversations are imminent in the nuclear energy space, too, because Russia is also a
dominant player in global supply chains of nuclear reactor technology, as is detailed by a new paper
published Monday from Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
There were 439 nuclear reactors in operation around the globe in 2021, and 38 of them were in
Russia, an additional 42 were made with Russian nuclear reactor technology, and 15 more under
construction at the end of 2021 were being built with Russian technology.

Reducing or eliminating dependence on nuclear supply chains from Russia will vary by country and
need.
If a country has not yet constructed nuclear reactors, then they can, from the beginning, decide not
to contract with Russia. The U.S., France, Korea and China are “viable” supplier options, according
to the paper.
Second, if a country already has Russian nuclear reactor models, VVERs, then probably looks to
Russia for repair parts and services. (VVER stands for ‘water-water energy reactor’ in Russian,
which is vodo-vodyanoi enyergeticheskiy reaktor in Russian, ergo the acronym.) In this case,
countries can get repair assistance from Westinghouse, which is headquartered in Pennsylvania,
according the the report.
Then there is the issue of fuel. Nuclear fission reactors are fueled with enriched uranium.
Russia mines approximately 6% of the raw uranium produced annually, according to the report.
That’s an amount that can be replaced if other countries that mine uranium increase their uranium
mining.
However, uranium does not go directly from a mine into a nuclear reactor. It has to go through
conversion and enrichment before it can be used as fuel in a nuclear reactor.
Here, Russia is a dominant player. Russia owned 40% of the total uranium conversion infrastructure
in the world in 2020, and 46% of the total uranium enrichment capacity in the world in 2018,
according to the report. (This was the most up-to-date data publicly available, according to the report
authors.)
This is where the U.S. and allied countries would need to focus their attention, according to the
report, which was co-authored by Paul Dabbar, a former under secretary of Energy for Science at
the Department of Energy, and Matthew Bowen, a research scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global
Energy Policy.
Besides Russia, these uranium conversion and enrichment capabilities exist in Canada, France,
Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Those capacities “are enough to replace at least some” of the conversion and enrichment that
Western nuclear reactors need, but it’s not clear that the capacity will be able to fully replace the
Russian capacity.

The U.S. also needs to be prepared for fuel that goes into advanced reactors, which are currently
in development, and require uranium enriched to 15 to19.75%, where conventional light water
reactors that are currently in operation in the U.S.A use uranium enriched to between 3 to 5 %.
This high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel is currently only available at a commercial
scale from Russia, according to the report.
“More investment in mining, conversion, and enrichment facilities may be necessary to fully extricate
Western nuclear fuel chains from Russian involvement, Dabbar and Bowen write in their report.
“However, adding sufficient new conversion capacity and enrichment capacity will take years to
accomplish.”
But to convince private companies to dedicate money and resources to uranium infrastructure, they
need the government to commit to not reverting to Russian supplies.
“Their worry will be that in a year or two, perhaps less, Russian uranium products will be allowed
back into national markets and will undercut them, causing them to lose out on their investments,”
Dabbar and Bowen said.
In the United States, there is only one uranium conversion facility — it’s in Metropolis, Illinois — and
it has been on standby since November 2017. Its reopening is “pending market improvement and
customer support,” according to a power point presentation from the partnership between General
Atomics and Honeywell that operates the plant, ConverDyn.
It won’t be able to return to operability until 2023, when it could convert 7,000 tons of uranium per
year. To ramp up to 15,000 tons per year, it will take the one plant longer than 2023.
Therefore, Dabbar and Bowen said it would be prudent for the United States to wean off Russian
refinement capacity “a period of years not months.

India: General Atlantic plans $B2 invest. in India, Southeast Asia
Reuters - Aditya Kalra + NewBase
Global private equity firm General Atlantic plans to plough $2 billion into India and Southeast Asia
over the next two years after falling valuations made the region's startups more attractive, a senior
executive told Reuters.
General Atlantic is in early-stage investment talks with about 15 companies in sectors including
technology, financial services, retail and consumer, Sandeep Naik, the head of its business in India
and Southeast Asia, said in an interview.
The market for startups, especially in India, is going through a rough patch. After raising a record
$35 billion in 2021, founders are struggling to attract cash, sparking fears of lower valuations and
forcing some to cut jobs. read more
After investing just $190 million in Indian startups in 2021, its lowest ever annual figure, General
Atlantic is now ready to loosen its purse strings, Naik said in an interview at the World Economic
Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
"The realism is setting in. We were waiting for the value creation to happen. We are now ready,"
Naik said of General Atlantic's plans for India and Southeast Asia, where it has investments of more
than $4.5 billion, mostly in India.
"We are very bullish on India, Indonesia and Vietnam," Naik added, while declining to name any
companies it is looking at.
General Atlantic's existing high-profile Indian investments include education technology companies
such as Byju's, which offers online tutoring in a country where internet and smartphone use is
booming and is valued at around $22 billion.
It has also invested in Reliance Retail, India's largest retailer, and in Southeast Asia its portfolio
includes Indonesian food and beverage retailer PT MAP Boga Adiperkasa and social entertainment
platform Kumu in the Philippines.
Many tech companies globally have suffered in recent weeks as the conflict in Ukraine and rising
interest rates hit investor sentiment. Japan's SoftBank has reported a record loss of $26.2 billion at
its Vision Fund investment arm.
Given the tough market environment and falling valuations, General Atlantic is advising all its
portfolio companies to look at consolidation opportunities. "Now is the best time to consolidate ...
Strong gets stronger," Naik said.

UK: World’s first hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbine
gets GBP 9.3million funding boost.. Source: Vattenfall
Vattenfall has been awarded GBP 9.3 million in innovation funding from the Net Zero Innovation
Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK Government. The funding will be used to
develop the world’s first hydrogen-producing offshore wind turbine, with the electrolyzer sited
directly onto an existing operational turbine.
The pilot project at Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen Bay will have an output of 8 MW
and will be able to produce enough hydrogen every day to power a hydrogen bus to travel 24,000
kilometers. The hydrogen will be piped to shore at Aberdeen Harbor.
'We are very happy with the Government funding. Placing hydrogen electrolyzers on offshore wind
turbines is likely to be the quickest and cheapest way of providing fossil-free hydrogen at scale,' said
Danielle Lane, UK Country Manager for Vattenfall.
The project – called ‘Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1)’ - aims to be first project in the world to test the full
integration of hydrogen production with an offshore wind turbine. HT1 will also map out development
and consent processes for large-scale hydrogen projects co-located with offshore wind farms to
speed up future development.
The availability of large quantities of fossil-free hydrogen will play a key role in the decarbonisation
of heavy industry (predominantly in steel, chemicals, and fertilizer production as well as refining),
as well as heavy transport.
Work will commence immediately with the goal of first production as early as 2025.
Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (Source: Vattenfall)

U.S. retail diesel prices increase to over $6 per gallon in the NE.
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
On May 16, 2022, the average U.S. on-highway retail diesel fuel price was $5.61 per gallon (gal), a
$2.00/gal increase from January 3. Although retail diesel prices have increased across the entire
United States, prices in the Northeast have increased the most and are now among the highest in
the country.
On May 16, the average retail diesel price was $6.43/gal in the New England region and $6.36/gal
in the Central Atlantic region, increases of 78% and 68%, respectively, since the beginning of the
year. Retail diesel prices in these regions are nearly equal to California’s average of $6.47/gal,
according to our Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update.
Diesel fuel is a type of distillate fuel. Prices of distillate fuels change with the price of crude oil and
with developments specific to distillate product markets. In 2022, both low global distillate fuel
inventories and high crude oil prices have been contributing to higher global distillate prices.
Global distillate inventories had been
relatively low before Russia’s full-
scale invasion of Ukraine because of
higher demand and lower refinery
production of distillate. Because the
geopolitical climate and related
economic sanctions have disrupted
Russia’s distillate exports—most of
which were sent to Europe—
European countries have drawn
down their regional distillate
inventories and turned to other
distillate suppliers.
On the U.S. East Coast, distillate inventory draws and price increases have been especially high.
According to data in our Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR), distillate stocks on the U.S. East

Coast measured 22.5 million barrels on May 13, or 47% lower than their previous five-year (2017–
21) average for this time of year. U.S. regional distillate inventories excluding the East Coast are
closer to their previous five-year averages for this time of year.
Because the East Coast consumes significantly more petroleum products than regional refineries
produce, the region receives supplies from the U.S. Gulf Coast and imports petroleum products
from other countries.
East Coast distillate refining capacity has decreased by approximately 100,000 barrels per day (b/d)
since the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery closed following an explosion in June 2019.
Shipments of distillate fuel through pipelines from the U.S. Gulf Coast also fell in 2021 because
of lower refining capacity and lower refinery utilization in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Net imports of distillate fuel at East Coast ports had increased from 139,000 b/d in 2019 to 227,000
b/d in 2021. However, in the seven most recent weeks, distillate imports have decreased to an
average of 76,000 b/d, according to our weekly estimates.

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Oil prices inch lower on concerns over recession, China COVID curbs
Reuters + NewBase
Oil prices fell on Tuesday as concerns over a possible recession and China's COVID-19 curbs
outweighed an expectation of tight global supply and a pick-up in fuel demand with the U.S. summer
driving season.
Brent crude futures for July slid 61 cents, or 0.5%, to $112.81 a barrel by 0402 GMT. U.S. West
Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for July delivery dropped 55 cents, or 0.5%, to $109.74 a
barrel. Both benchmarks fell by more than $1 earlier in the session.
Brent gained 0.7% on Monday while WTI settled nearly flat.
Oil price special
coverage

Multiple threats to the global economy topped the worries of the world's well-heeled at the annual
Davos economic summit, with some flagging the risk of a worldwide recession. International
Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said she did not expect a recession for
major economies but could not rule one out.
"Investors were selling off as they expected higher oil prices to dent consumption for fuels
worldwide," said Toshitaka Tazawa, an analyst at Fujitomi Securities Co Ltd.
While Shanghai, China's commercial hub, aims to normalise life from June 1 as its coronavirus
caseloads decline, an increase in new COVID-19 cases in Beijing have raised concerns for further
curbs.
The Chinese capital detected 99 new cases on Sunday, up from 61 the previous day - the largest
daily tally so far during a month-old outbreak that has consistently seen dozens of new infections
every day.
"China’s COVID lockdowns are certainly playing a substantial role that weighs on fuel and energy
demand outlook, with Beijing reporting rising positive cases, making investors concerned about
expanding lockdowns into another business hub apart from Shanghai," said Tina Teng, an analyst
at CMC Markets.
Losses were limited by expectations that gasoline demand would remain high amid.The United
States is set to enter its peak driving season beginning on Memorial Day weekend at the end of this
week.
An embargo on Russian oil imports will likely be agreed on by the European Union "within days,"
according to its biggest member Germany, as Moscow said it saw its economic ties growing with
China after being isolated by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.
The world is facing an oil supply crunch, with most companies afraid to invest in the sector as they
face green energy pressures, the head of Saudi Aramco told Reuters, adding it cannot expand
production capacity any faster than promised.

NewBase Special Coverage
The Energy world –May -01 -2022
CLEAN ENERGY
Electric Farms Are Using Solar Power to Grow Profits and Crops
Bloomberg
In many respects, Takeshi Magami’s farm is like any other in Japan, growing everything from
potatoes to ginger and eggplants. But one major difference sets it apart from its neighbors: the 2,826
solar panels perched above the crops.
The panels, covering much of the one hectare (2.5 acres) of land in the tranquil countryside east of
Tokyo, serve a dual purpose. They supply nearly all the power needed to run the farm, and are a
source of extra income by selling surplus renewable energy to the grid.
For Magami that can mean 24 million yen ($187,000) of additional revenue a year, eight times more
than the maximum 3 million yen generated from his produce. While he benefits from generous tariffs
that have since been reduced, it's an indication of the added value available to farms in Japan and
globally.
“Our goal is to electrify and automate all steps of farming” and create a model for what sustainable
agriculture could look like, said the 38-year-old Magami, who has been operating the farm as part
of his start-up Chiba Ecological Energy Inc.
All the machinery used on Magami’s farm, minus the tractor and a hand-pushed tiller, are electric,
charged by panels set above a small shed. Rows of batteries for the tools are lined up on a shelf.

The farm is part of a global movement called solar sharing -- or agrivoltaics -- that involves the
simultaneous use of farmland for producing crops and generating power. The movement is gaining
adherents as the global push to replace fossil fuels is encouraging more innovative approaches to
boosting capacity for renewable energy.
Solar sharing is emerging as a viable alternative in places like Japan with limited space and a heavy
reliance on energy imports. It can help stretch home-grown energy production as countries
increasingly seek to reduce their exposure to foreign supplies. Solar sharing is also useful in
countries with harsh growing environments, protecting crops by absorbing sunlight and acting as a
shield.
“We’ve seen many regions with climate change, and agrivoltaics could mitigate and make
agriculture more resilient,” said Max Trommsdorff, head of the agrivoltaics group at the Fraunhofer
Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Germany. “Small countries in the sun belt with high
population is where agrivoltaics are most urgent and promising.”
Japan, which is targeting to go carbon neutral by 2050, has limited capabilities for renewable energy
because of its mountainous terrain. It is aiming for 36% to 38% of its energy mix to come from
renewable sources in 2030, with solar accounting for 14% to 16%. While Japan’s solar installations
have risen over the last decade, they supplied only 8.9% of the country’s power as of fiscal 2020,
according to the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo.
That means Japan will need more spots for panels. The government is looking toward rooftops,
railway lines and airports, and the country’s wide stretches of agricultural land on the flat plains offer
a promising alternative.
But while Magami has demonstrated the success of solar sharing, the practice hasn’t been widely
adopted in Japan. Only 742 hectares were approved for agrivoltaic use between fiscal 2013 and
2019, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, out of the country’s
total agricultural land of 4.4 million hectares as of 2020.

Agrivoltaics is a tough sell for Japan’s elderly farming population. Many are without successors to
take over the business, and they’re unwilling to make the heavy investment in solar panels that may
take decades to pay off. It also can be a distraction from the business of growing crops.
“Some people are against it as it ruins aesthetics, or for getting in the way of farm work,” said Chiho
Egashira, an official at Japan’s ministry of agriculture. It can be cumbersome for farm equipment to
dodge poles that lift the panels off the ground.
While solar panels can be an alluring prospect for extra income, the ministry wants to ensure food
security remains the priority. And so it has put in place rules to ensure production levels.
Magami says that despite the hurdles, it’s necessary for the country to embrace agrivoltaics to reach
carbon neutrality by 2050. He calculates that using solar panels on roughly 5% of Japan’s arable
farmland, or equivalent to 200,000 hectares, could generate 20% of the country’s power generation.
“Things like geothermal and hydropower take decades to start operating,” Magami said. “We’re no
longer in an era where the best way is to find unused plots of land available and install it with panels.
Those have all been filled.”
Other nations are making progress with solar sharing, especially in countries that face a similar lack
of space. South Korea has targeted 10 gigawatt of agrivoltaics capacity by 2030 under its
Renewable Energy 3020 plan. Taiwan is eyeing the scheme as it seeks available spaces for
renewable installation, according to Magami. Italy plans to invest 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in
agrivoltaics to create about 2 gigawatts of capacity.
Larger countries also have a significant presence. China, the world’s top solar panel producer, is
home to the biggest agrivoltaic system: a project covering 20 million square meters of land in the
desert in Ningxia. Of the 2.8 gigawatt agrivoltaic systems installed globally, China had roughly 1.9
gigawatt of capacity as of 2020, according to the Fraunhofer Institute.
Adoption in the US varies, with more progressive states in the Northeast launching projects with
government funding, according to Mark Uchanski, an associate professor at Colorado State
University who specializes in sustainable and organic agriculture. “People's appetites are
increasing,” he said. Agrivoltaics “is a perfect storm for wanting food security, energy and working
toward emission goals,” he said.

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