Solar Plants News

TurningPoint Energy developing two 5-MW Virginia solar projects
The City of Danville announced the commencement of two 5-MWac solar power plants, its third and fourth solar power purchase agreements to bring clean, cost-effective solar power to its customers and community.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Virginia, pv power plants, solar pv, North America, TurningPoint Energy, Jason Grey, Jared Schoch, John Malloy
Spain’s Dhamma secures environmental nod for 554MWp of Mexican PV
Mexican solar has witnessed the latest utility-scale move of a year of project milestones and policy uncertainty, with a new major pipeline sponsored by a Spanish player.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Canadian Solar, pv power plants, solar pv, Mexico, North America, Marco Nieto-Vázquez, Dhamma Energy, Baker McKenzie
Baywa re sells German grid-parity solar plant to Encavis
The Munich-based group sold five solar parks with a total generation capacity of around 35 MW to the Hamburg-headquartered power producer. One of the five plants was among Germany’s first unsubsidized PV projects.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, encavis, Baywa re, Matthias Taft, Karsten Mieth
Scatec Solar Bags 3 Solar Projects Worth 360 MW in Tunisia
Scatec Solar has been awarded three solar power plant projects in Tunisia totaling approximately 360 MW, following an international tender launched earlier.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Raymond Carlsen, Scatec Solar, Tunisia, Africa
Largest solar-covered parking garage in St Louse opens
Ameren Missouri and BJC Healthcare teamed up to build a solar energy generation facility atop the BJC parking garage located on Duncan Avenue, St. Louis.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, USA, North America, Ameren Missouri, Michael Moehn, BJC Healthcare, Rich Liekweg, Joseph Barnard, Bob Eaton
Endesa to replace Spanish coal complex with ‘Europe’s largest PV plant’
Plans for what is being billed as “Europe’s largest solar plant” have been put forward in Spain as the UN climate negotiations came to a close in Madrid.
Dec 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Enel, solar pv, Europe, Endesa, cop25, José Bogas, Andorra
UK water business seeks solar energy from large scale, rooftop and floating plants
Southern Water has issued a request for information to source solar energy through bilateral power purchase agreements. The business is thinking about buying power from a blend of generation facilities.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Floating PV, UK, floating PV, Europe, rooftop PV, large scale plants
NYSERDA has announced Ulster-based energy storage project to replace the earlier planned gas-powered plant
NYSERDA has contracted with GlidePath’s unit for construction of a 20MW storage facility. The project will be deployed in Town of Ulster instead of the fossil-fuel plant proposed earlier.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, NYSERDA, North America, GlidePath
Tesla's virtual solar plant is already saving the grid mid-construction
The Tesla virtual power plant in South Australia has already made its mark.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, TESLA, Elon Musk, Australia, Dan van Holst Pellekaan, Oceania, solar plant
New commercial solar project in Denmark to be installed at former airport
Recently, the authorities of Denmark declared their plans to cease tenders for green power development. A few days later, a Jutland-based subsidy-free photovoltaic project with a capacity of 155 megawatts has been revealed. From the beginning, the power produced is planned for selling to the market of Nord Pool. However, private power supply options can also be considered.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, tender, Europe, Denmark
Sungrow to build Bangladesh-based 35MW solar project
Sungrow’s EPC branch has signed a contract for construction of Manikganj-based photovoltaic project.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Floating PV, Sungrow, Bangladesh, Asia
Coal India Subsidiary Tenders for 150 kW Rooftop Solar Plant
CMPDI, a subsidiary of Coal India has issued a tender for the commissioning of a 150 kW rooftop solar micro-grid power plant at the firms’ Ranchi office.
Dec 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Rooftop PV, India, tender, Asia, rooftop PV, CMPDI
PSE&G brings 15.2-MW brownfield solar project online in New Jersey
PSE&G has put its biggest solar farm to-date in-service on a brownfield site in Pennsauken, New Jersey. The 15.2-MW Pennsauken Solar Farm is a part of PSE&G's Solar 4 All program.
Dec 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, New Jersey, North America, PSE&G
ABB launches pioneering floating solar plant in Switzerland
ABB has partnered with Romande Energie to provide its own inverter solutions for one of the world's highest floating PV installations, which raises efficacy of DC generation by up to 30 percent, even in winter.
Dec 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, ABB, floating PV, Europe, Switzerland
Developers turn on Facebook's 102.5-MWac Georgia solar park
Facebook's first solar project in the state of Georgia is currently functional in Early County. Facebook representatives joined Walton Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) and Silicon Ranch to "flip the switch" on the 102.5 MWac solar facility.
Dec 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Georgia, Europe, North America, Facebook, shell, Silicon Ranch, EMC