Solar Large-Scale Plants News

Avantus (formerly 8minute) has broken ground on the 147 MWDC/110 MWAC Galloway 2 Solar Project in Concho County, Texas. The project will generate enough clean electricity to power 60,000 Texans and create over 250 peak construction jobs.

The PV project in Penamacor is due online in 2024

Galloway 2 project in Concho region is anticipated to come online by the end of 2023

Enel Chile has announced the launch of the 204MW Domeyko photovoltaic plant in the Atacama Desert, which will inject 590GWh of renewable energy into the National Electric System, avoiding 465 thousand tonnes of CO2 emissions.

The 5B Maverick technology is a ground mount solar remedy created to be safer, much more affordable as well as much faster to deploy for offgrid, business and commercial, as well as large-scale solar power generation. 5B will be setting up solar PV for the 95 MW hybrid microgrid in the Kathleen Valley Lithium project.

Enviromena has completed its first UK solar farm, the 25.4-MW Three Maids Hill project in Winchester, England. The solar park is expected to generate enough electricity to cover the needs of 9,500 homes and was acquired by Blackfinch Energy in 2021.

US-based renewables developer Longroad Energy has reached financial close for its 150-MW/202-MWp solar project in Texas and started construction. The plant will produce electricity for power distribution firm Entergy Texas Inc and is expected to reach commercial operations by the end of 2023.

B2U Storage Solutions has started operations of a 25-MWh system at its SEPV Sierra hybrid solar + storage facility in Lancaster, California, utilizing 1,300 reused EV battery packs sourced from Honda and Nissan. This project is the largest operational UL 9540-certified energy storage system utilizing second-life EV batteries in the world.

Spanish renewables pure-player Acciona Energia (BME: ANE) has inked a ten-year agreement to supply 100% renewable power to subsidiaries of Portuguese organization group Grupo Violas.

A 100-MW solar farm in the United States state of Arizona that will serve community-based not-for-profit power and also water utility Salt River Project (SRP) as well as tech group Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) was inaugurated recently, SRP said on Monday.

Romanian state-controlled electricity distribution group Societatea Energetica Electrica SA (BSE: EL), better referred to as Electrica, has actually acquired a business that holds the legal rights to a 12-MW DC/9.75-MW AC solar project in eastern Romania.

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) said on Tuesday that its Australian unit acquired a 52-MW solar farm project in New Zealand with the joint venture (JV) with domestic power as well as gas energy Genesis Energy Ltd (NZE: GNE).

Spanish electric utility Iberdrola SA (BME: IBE) stated that it had actually obtained environmental approval to assemble a 318-MW solar PV plant in Salamanca province, western Spain.

Iberdrola and Prosolia Energy have secured approvals from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) to build Europe's largest photovoltaic plant in Santiago do Cacém near Sines. It will produce clean and cheap energy to cover the annual needs of 430,000 households.

Power utility group Enel Colombia said on Thursday it had actually released construction of a 29.87-MW solar farm in Panama, one of its 3 markets in Central America.