Solar Markets & Finance News

Solar PV bidders protected two-thirds of assigned capacity in the first of Spain's brand-new renewable resource auctions, which was held the other day (26 January) as well as was more than three times oversubscribed.

US solar firm Distributed Solar Development has actually shut a US$ 300 million financial obligation center from Credit Suisse to create a series of business, industrial and distributed generation projects.

Lightsource BP has actually shut a US$ 380 million funding bundle for 2 Texan solar projects with an integrated capability of 316MW.

Firms acquired 18% more tidy power last year compared with 2019, according to new research, with technology gigantic Amazon as well as oil and also gas group Total leading the international energy change.

As need for solar boosts across the nation, SunPower, a solar innovation and also power companies, is preparing to broaden its SunPower Residential Installation (SPRI) program this year. SunPower prepares to introduce SPRI presence in 7 brand-new markets throughout 6 states by the end of Q2 2021.

Electrical panel pioneer Span introduces today that it has actually secured Amazon Alexa voice integration along with an extra $20 million in financing led by Munich Re Ventures' HSB Fund and joined by the Alexa Fund, with ongoing participation from existing financiers.

Salient Energy, a business developing zinc-ion batteries, has actually gotten a $1.5 million give from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to sustain the style and setting up of its zinc-ion domestic energy storage space systems.

Enphase Energy introduced the closing of its purchase of solar style software company Sofdesk, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Sofdesk's Solargraf integrated software system uses electronic tools and solutions created to streamline and also accelerate the end-to-end sales process across the property solar market.

Former Facebook staff member as well as present enfant terrible of high money Chamath Palihapitiya is making news again with a $1.3 billion twofer SPAC and PIPE deal into the solar power financing business, Sunlight Financial.

Finance will money its innovation, r & d strategy until 2023

' Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) member First Solar has actually sold a huge part of its PV project business to Leeward Renewable Energy amounting to around 10GW.

German pension plan fund Versicherungskammer Group gets project for a concealed sum

Renewable energy and returns are a match made in paradise.

Despite making strong gains against coal and also gas, Europe's renewable resource growth needs to expand faster to reach the EU's climate targets, according to brand-new research study.

Power acquisition contracts (PPAs) in Europe can go beyond 10GW of renewable energy capability this year as bargains have already started to rebound after a COVID-19 stagnation.