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Chile OKs 84-MW Solar, 90-MW Battery Hybrid

Limes wins Chilean green light for 84‑MWp solar + 90‑MW battery, a hybrid built to dodge curtailment, chase evening prices, and scale with grid-forming smarts—procurement now sets pace.

Dec 2, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Chile, hybrid, South america, solar-plus-storage, permitting, Limes Renewable

Australia Greenlights 230-MW Solar River, Storage-Ready PV

Australia greenlights 230‑MW Solar River: storage‑ready solar, grid‑code smart, primed for evening peaks. Conditional approval fast-tracks procurement, prefab substations cut risk, dust, noise, glare, biodiversity and recycling controls.

Dec 2, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Australia, South Australia, Oceania, permitting, Zen Energy

Catalonia Fast-Tracks Renewables With New Decree To Accelerate Permits Deployment

Catalonia passed a decree to cut permitting times, clarify storage rules, and support energy communities, aiming to accelerate wind and solar build-out.

Nov 24, 2025 // Policy, ENERGY STORAGE, Spain, Europe, permitting, catalonia, energy communities

New Zealand court greenlights 178-MW North Island solar project plan

Far North Solar Farm won resource consent for a 178-MW PV project on New Zealand’s North Island, clearing a key hurdle toward construction.

Nov 7, 2025 // Plants, New Zealand, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Oceania, permitting, Far North Solar Farm, grid integration

BLM cancels review for Nevada Esmeralda 7 solar-storage project proposal

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management halted the environmental review of the Esmeralda 7 solar-plus-storage proposal in Nevada, sending the mega-project back to square one.

Oct 13, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Nevada, solar-plus-storage, North America, permitting, BLM, public lands

Wisconsin greenlights Invenergy, DESRI projects adding 298 megawatts capacity statewide

Wisconsin regulators approved two Invenergy and DESRI projects totaling up to 298 MW of wind and solar, advancing flexible clean power for the Midwestern grid

Oct 6, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Wisconsin, Invenergy, North America, PSC, DESRI, permitting

Minnesota Regulators Approve Primergy’s 150-Megawatt Solar-Plus-Storage Northern Crescent Project Unanimously

Minnesota’s PUC greenlights Primergy’s Northern Crescent: up to 150 MW of solar with a 50-MW battery in Faribault County.

Sep 5, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, BESS, North America, Minnesota, permitting, Primergy

Statkraft’s Pinea project wins environmental green light in Spain approval

Statkraft secured environmental approval for the 150-MW Pinea solar plant in Cáceres, moving the Spanish project closer to construction.

Sep 1, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Spain, Europe, Statkraft, permitting, Cáceres

States fast-track solar projects to beat looming federal credit deadlines

States are rushing permits and contracts so solar projects can start construction in time to qualify for federal tax credits before policy changes kick in.

Aug 27, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, USA, BATTERIES, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America, permitting, tax credits

Hecate Energy secures permit for New York's 'biggest' solar project

New york city State authorities have actually authorized a permit for a 500MW PV plant from solar developer and also owner Hecate Energy.

Jul 28, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, New York, North America, hecate energy, permitting, new york state

R.Power targeting 1GW of solar PV in Italy over the following year

Polish PV developer R.Power is targeting the development of 1GW of solar projects in Italy in the following twelve month.

Jun 27, 2022 // Plants, Italy, pv power plants, Europe, r.power, permitting, project permitting

United States plans to halve leas as well as fees for solar projects on public lands

Rents and also fees for releasing solar as well as wind on United States federal lands are readied to be substantially decreased as part of a new policy from the Biden management focused on enhancing rate predictability for programmers.

Jun 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, North America, permitting, biden administration, department of interior

EU intending one-year renewable permits in 'go-to locations' as it steps up change preparation

The European Commission (EC) intends to accelerate the permitting procedure for renewable energy projects to a maximum of one year, Reuters reported the other day, referencing a leaked draft document it had seen.

May 11, 2022 // Policy, Europe, European Union, european commission, renewables, permitting

German government raises country's solar target, goes for 215GW mounted by 2030

Germany's federal government is planning to slash red tape for new renewables projects as part of a new package of procedures that will certainly see the nation's already ambitious solar deployment targets be raised even further.

Apr 8, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, rooftop, Europe, policy, bsw, permitting, auctions and tenders, deployment target, BEE

SolarPower Europe reveals 8 activities required to reach 1TW of solar PV by 2030

SolarPower Europe has actually provided a list of 8 actions that will certainly assist Europe speed up solar release to reach a total capacity of 1TW by 2030 and decrease its reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports.

Mar 31, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Ukraine, Europe, SolarPower Europe, rooftop solar, European Union, european commission, grid connection, permitting, european solar, russian gas, training

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