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Lightsource BP makes maiden foray into Spanish solar market with 300MW acquisition

Lightsource BP has announced its entry into the Spanish solar market with the acquisition of a 300MW project portfolio in Zaragoza.

Oct 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, solar pv, Lightsource BP, Europe, utility-scale, Nick Boyle

Google bets on cheap solar via ‘biggest’ clean energy buy to date

Tumbling solar costs have spurred Google on to a dramatic boost of its exposure to the technology, acting to line up supply from projects worldwide as part of a major clean energy push.

Sep 20, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Amazon, Chile, solar pv, South america, Europe, North America, Facebook, Google, Denmark, corporate ppa, Sundar Pichai

Denmark poised for multi-gigawatt solar boom in coming decades

The solar surge expected to hit Europe in the coming decades could extend to one of the continent’s northernmost countries, new official stats indicate.

Sep 20, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, solar pv, Europe, auction, Denmark, market forecast, dea,

Minister: Mexico’s postponed auction will come when time is right

Mexico’s state-run utility and fossil fuel infrastructure need more time before the country can re-arrange the renewable auction it cancelled this year, a top official has said.

Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, solar pv, Latin america, auctions, Mexico, North America, AMLO, esslatam, tenders, cfe, Marco Nieto-Vázquez

Enel links utility-scale PV plant backed in Spanish 2017 auction

Enel Green Power has switched on a utility-scale solar project it developed in Spain’s southeast with support from the country’s renewable auction of 2017.

Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, auction, tenders

Greece goes smaller with end-of-year solar tender

Greece has opted to slightly trim the capacity on offer at the year’s last solar-only tender, setting ceiling prices that reflect the gradual technology cost decreases seen in the country.

Sep 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Greece, tender, solar pv, auctions, Europe, southern europe, rae

Foresight continues Australian charge with small-scale renewables fund launch

Global solar investor Foresight Group has continued its charge into the Australian PV market, launching a sustainability framework to finance small-scale renewable infrastructure projects in the country.

Sep 13, 2019 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Australia, solar pv, Oceania, investment, foresight group

Top EU financier to refocus on market-based renewables, energy storage

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is debating plans to shift its multi-billion energy funding firepower to back energy storage and free-market renewables more decisively.

Sep 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free pv, BESS, European Union, european investment bank, eib, green finance, storage systems bess

Limiting climate emergency will require ten-fold solar boom, DNV GL claims

Global solar PV capacity must increase ten-fold to 5TW by 2030 in order to meet the Paris climate targets, research body DNV GL has claimed.

Sep 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, ENERGY STORAGE, solar pv, DNV GL, Ditlev Engel

Price ceilings set as Brazilian PV sector readies for debut in new-generation auction

Brazil has unveiled the tariff ceilings solar players will face as they compete for the first time in the so-called new generation tender, opening up a new avenue of government support.

Sep 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, solar pv, South america, Latin america, Brazil, jair bolsonaro, ANEEL, São Gonçalo, Absolar, bolsonaro, Rodrigo Sauaia, a-6 auction, tenders

Industry: Italian solar comeback needs market redesign, not subsidies

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.

Sep 9, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Tariffs, Italy, PPA, pv power plants, solar pv, Europe, subsidy-free pv, feed-in tariff, Paolo Rocco Viscontini

Nigeria powers up Africa’s ‘largest off-grid solar hybrid’

The latest project to be switched on in Nigeria’s solar electrification programme for universities is also thought to be the largest ‘hybrid’ plant of its kind on the African continent so far, inaugurated this week at Bayero University Kano (BUK).

Sep 8, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, solar pv, off-grid solar, Africa, microgrid, Nigeria, off-grid pv, renewable integration, rural electrification

Ameren puts forward plans for 30MW of solar-plus-storage in rural Missouri

Utility Ameren Missouri is planning three grid-scale solar facilities with energy storage, marking what is claimed will be the first ever instance of an energy company in the US Mid-West state powering its customers’ homes with batteries.

Sep 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, pv power plants, solar pv, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, Missouri, ameren, battery energy storage systems

Iberdrola in fresh PV play with 250MW submitted for approval in central Spain

Spanish developer and utility Iberdrola is waiting for project approval from the Castilla-La Mancha government to move ahead with four utility-scale solar PV facilities in the central Spanish region.

Sep 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Portugal, Iberdrola, solar pv, bifacial, Inverters, Europe, solar-plus-storage, daisy-chain inverter

New Zealand’s floating debut billed as country’s top PV project to date

New Zealand looks set to join the countries tapping into floating solar worldwide via a new, city-based scheme, sponsored by a utility duo.

Sep 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, New Zealand, solar pv, floating PV, utilities, IRENA, Oceania, vector group, auckland, Simon Mackenzie, watercare

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