Solar Markets & Finance News

NREL: Cost of solar, energy storage in US dropped across all segments from 2020 to 2021
The installed cost of solar PV, solar-plus-storage and standalone battery energy storage in the US was minimized across all market segments in between 2020 and also 2021, with the largest decrease seen in the utility-scale segment.
Nov 4, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, NREL, LCOE, solar-plus-storage, North America, modelling, benchmark cost, cost reduction, dc-coupling, levelised cost of energy, national labs
SunPower downgrades FY21 advice as supply chain distress attack business, tradition business units
United States solar installer SunPower has actually downgraded its complete year 2021 profits support, pointing to hold-ups in its industrial and commercial projects business.
Nov 4, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, blue raven
Soltec reports bottom line for Q3, adds to its record backlog
Spanish solar tracker supplier Soltec reported a net loss of EUR100,000 (US$ 120,000) in Q3 as well as a EUR20 million (US$ 23 million) loss in the first 9 months of the year because of "substantial global interruptions", according to its Q3 financial results launched today.
Nov 4, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Europe, trackers, Soltec
JinkoSolar to invest US$ 70m in 100,000 MT Tongwei polysilicon plant
'Solar Module Super League' maker JinkoSolar is to invest RMB450 million (US$ 70.3 million) in Tongwei Solar subsidiary Sichuan Yongxiang Energy Technology to assist fund a 100,000 MT high-purity polysilicon facility.
Nov 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Tongwei, polysilicon, JinkoSolar, modules
SolarEdge navigates Vietnam manufacturing facility shutdown to post record solar earnings in Q3 2021
Inverter manufacturer SolarEdge posted record revenues from its solar department in Q3 2021 in spite of a COVID-related closure at its production facility in Vietnam influencing its capacity to meet need.
Nov 3, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Inverters, Asia, SolarEdge, Vietnam
Nextracker First To Reach 50 GW Solar Tracker Shipments Globally
Nextracker's success is just one of the few non-Chinese success tales in the past decade in solar. Like a lot of the solar supply chain, the industry faces the twin difficulty of keeping prices low and preserving high quality levels to allow a 25 year plus life and risk-free recycling.
Nov 3, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Nextracker, Dan Shugar, nx horizon, solar trackers, TrueCapture, leading solar tracker firm, nextracker shipments growth
RUMSL Tenders for 600 MW Omkareshwar Floating Project
The Omkareshwar Floating Solar Project is the biggest such project in India. Hopes are high that the project will move ahead, thanks to the competencies accumulated over the past in the area by firms in India.
Nov 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, India, NTPC, Asia, Floating solar, ciel et terre, Sunseap, RUMSL, Floatex, omkareshwar reservoir, Rihand reservoir
AC Energy, CleanTech Global to form 200-MW solar JV in the Philippines
Philippines-based AC Energy Corp (PSE: ACEN) claimed today it has secured board approval to establish a joint venture (JV) with compatriot CleanTech Global Renewables Inc to deal with a 200-MW SC solar project in the Philippines' Cagayan province.
Nov 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Asia, Philippines, AC Energy, solar JV, CleanTech Global
APA takes FID, secures off-taker for 44-MW solar project in Queensland
Australian power framework business APA Group (ASX: APA) has taken a final investment decision (FID) on the initial stage of an 88-MW solar project in Queensland.
Nov 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Australia, queensland, Oceania, Solar Project, Solar Park, APA, FID
Rising polysilicon rates even more enhance Daqo's profits
Daqo New Energy Corp (NYSE: DQ) last week reported record-high manufacturing quantity and also internet earnings in the 3rd quarter of 2021 as polysilicon market prices rose additionally.
Nov 2, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Longgen Zhang, Daqo New Energy Corp
Scottish designer offers 50MW battery
Field has gotten the Auchteraw project near Fort Augustus from ILI Group
Nov 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, ILI Group, Mark Wilson, Amit Gudka
US solar ITC extension would certainly lift installs by 44% this decade however fall short of Biden target
A recommended extension of the United States solar investment tax credit (ITC) might boost PV implementation by more than 40% over the following decade, analysis by Wood Mackenzie has actually found.
Nov 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, Policy, USA, ITC, North America, Joe Biden
NSW seeks renewables, energy storage rate of interest for most recent Renewable Energy Zone
The Government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has actually opened an on-line enrollment of interest process as it seeks prospective buyers for the nation's most current Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) to get in the planning phase.
Nov 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, Australia, Oceania, new south wales, rez, grids, renewable energy zone
Midsummer awarded US$ 44m to sustain Italy thin film manufacturing facility strategies
Swedish thin film solar cell supplier Midsummer will get approximately EUR38 million (US$ 44 million) worth of monetary incentives to develop a 50MW manufacturing facility in Bari, Italy.
Nov 1, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Italy, Europe, thin film, midsummer, rooftop solar
Amp closes financing for 40-MW solar-storage portfolio in New york city
Toronto-based renewables developer Amp revealed that it has actually shut financing on its USD-106.5-million (EUR 91.8 m) portfolio of community solar-plus-storage projects in the state of New York.
Nov 1, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Amp