Solar Markets & Finance News

Renewables designer Solariant Capital and energy financier Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure (DEI) are collaborating to create a portfolio of US solar and also energy storage projects.

Rystad Energy expects installations of utility-scale renewables this year to reach an all-time high of 220 GW, up by 38 GW from 2021, with solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) as well as wind ranches accounting for 85% of the 2022 total amount.

Indian state-run hydropower firm SJVN is intending to deploy 10GW of solar PV in Rajasthan over the next five years via a INR50,000 crore (US$ 6.7 billion) financial investment.

France will certainly intend to have greater than 100GW of mounted solar PV capacity by 2050, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday as part of a brand-new power approach that will see the country double down on developing new nuclear plants.

The united state Army has revealed ambitious plans in its first-ever climate technique document that was released lately that consist of lowering its carbon emissions by half by 2030 as well as attaining a net-zero status by 2050.

German electric utility Enercity AG is obtaining a 30% stake in Cologne-based photovoltaics start-up Installion GmbH to boost its capabilities in the solar industry.

French multi-energy group TotalEnergies SE (EPA: TTE) has authorized a USD-250-million (EUR 219m) deal to obtain the Commercial & Industrial Solutions (CIS) business of majority-owned United States solar business SunPower Corp (NASDAQ: SPWR).

Swiss fund supervisor SUSI Partners, through its Energy Transition Fund (SETF), has introduced a solar PV growth platform in Italy that intends to deploy 500MW of utility-scale solar PV after recognizing Italy as a vital growth market.

Auxin Solar has actually asked the US Department of Commerce to investigate whether Southeast Asia-based business are circumventing United States anti-dumping as well as countervailing responsibility (AD/CVD) orders on cells as well as modules from China.

Microinverter distributor Enphase Energy has actually published solid Q4 2021 results that saw solid profits growth complying with high need for its IQ microinverters and also a 53% jump in orders of its IQ batteries, compared with Q3 2021, despite supply chain restrictions. In reaction to the rise popular for batteries, it has included extra capacity to its facilities in Mexico as well as India.

German solar start-up Sunvigo GmbH has actually increased EUR 15 million (USD 17.1 m) in a funding round backed by renewable energy financiers Eneco and also Sparta Capital.

Solar PV and also various other renewables accounted for a record share of electricity generation in Australia's National Energy Market (NEM) in Q4 2021 at 34.9%, while average wholesale prices rose with the higher cost of fossil fuels regardless of their share of the energy mix shrinking.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will certainly support the addition of 430MW of solar PV as well as wind in Spain and also Portugal with a EUR100 million (US$ 114 million) financing offer.

Solar energy plants in Egypt have actually generated 4,500 GWh of green electricity in 2021, the media centre of the Council of Ministers said over the weekend.

US solar energy organization DSD Renewables introduced it had acquired a solar-plus-storage project portfolio in southeastern Massachusetts from renewable energy services firm Borrego.