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Plastic producer Miniplast will certainly purchase electrical energy from a 704 kW grid-connected solar array possessed as well as run by Norwegian developer Empower New Energy AS.

Heineken Spain and also power service provider Iberdrola are collaborate to provide 100% eco-friendly electrical energy to Heineken's Spanish breweries as well as workplaces by October 2020. The lasting power acquisition arrangement (PPA) with Iberdrola belongs to Heineken's objective to run 100% carbon neutral by 2023.

A roof solar array has actually been mounted at cleaning up innovation firm Kärcher's head office in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Spain is poised to host yet another major subsidy-free solar setup, an additional indication that foreign gamers wish to sidestep power purchase contracts (PPAs) completely.

EDP Renovaveis SA (ELI:EDPR) has secured a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the output of the 66-MW Lagoa solar park it plans to build in the Brazilian state of Paraiba.

Solarpack has announced the award of a long-term PPA for one of its projects under development in Malaysia. The 116 MW Suria Sungai Petani plant.

ACWA Power has revealed the signing of two Power Purchase Agreements with Ethiopia’s electricity producer, Ethiopian Electric Power, to build two 125 MW solar installations in Ethiopia.

Solar investor Foresight has penned a 10-year power purchase agreement with EDF Trading for a 50MW project in Spain.

Acciona has signed a supply deal with Chilean water utility Empresa Concesionaria de Servicios Sanitarios SA (ECONSSA Chile) that will fulfil the energy needs of a water desalination plant set to come online in the Atacama desert next year.

Consolidation is coming to Spain’s red-hot solar market, but in a post-subsidy world the landing will be relatively soft.

The momentum around corporate renewable PPAs should not blind industry players from the fact the avenue remains too costly and complex for some businesses, three lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright have argued as part of a piece for PV Tech Power 20.

X-Elio has enlisted a Portuguese oil and gas group as offtaker to a large-scale solar pipeline in Spain, adding to the country’s bustling PV power purchase agreement (PPA) scene.

Perimeter Solar has sold 74.25MW of power from its proposed 130MW solar farm in Alberta, Canada to energy company TC Energy, in a deal billed as Canada’s “largest” private power purchase agreement (PPA) to date.

One of Spain’s prominent subsidy-free solar players has witnessed a bullish start in 2019 after becoming the offtaker for some of the largest deals seen in the country so far this year.

Subsidies are not the answer for Italy to revive its solar industry from the deadlock brought about by the scrapping of feed-in tariffs (FiT), operators have warned at an industry event.