Solar Plants News

“Largest” Dutch PV project taps blueberries to nail landscape integration
UK solar developer Solarcentury and Dutch counterpart PowerField have unveiled plans to build the “largest” solar project in the Netherlands on behalf of Impax, the British asset manager that owns the site.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Grids, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, UK, Europe, Netherlands, solarcentury, powerfield, dutch solar, impax
Constellation secures three customers for 175MW of solar power in Virginia
Baltimore-based power provider Constellation has inked a deal to sell power from a 175MW solar facility in Virginia to Johns Hopkins University, spice and seasoning mix company McCormick & Company and department store corporation TJX Companies.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Virginia, North America, constellation, exelon, johns hopkins university, mccormick & company, tjx companies, renewable energy certificates, baltimore
Scatec Solar expects annual PV power plant project completions of over 1.5GW from 2022
Integrated solar power producer, Scatec Solar has raised its growth targets in its key markets, due to strong demand.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Raymond Carlsen, Scatec Solar, pv power plants, Latin america, Asia, Africa, bifacial modules, Vietnam, single-axis trackers, mena
India’s state utility plotting 5GW solar plant, according to reports
India’s state utility plotting 5GW solar plant, according to reports
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, India, NTPC, Asia, gujarat, utility scale
Industry: Political deadlock puts Spain’s clean energy shift at risk
Politicians’ failure to form government pacts condemns Spain’s clean energy shift to further delays and uncertainty, the industry has warned as the country heads to fresh polls.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Spain, Europe, FER
Northern Territory hails 10GW solar-plus-storage project in net-zero plan
Australia’s Northern Territory has unveiled a new target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 in a policy document that touts solar and backs a proposed 10GW/20-30GWh solar-plus-storage plant earmarked to provide energy to the region and Singapore.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, Solar to Fuel, Northern Territory, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, carbon, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
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
Commercial and residential PV installer SIRC acquires Montross
Solar Integrated Roofing Corporation (SIRC) has completed the acquisition of The Montross Companies, an establishing roofing company in San Diego.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, California, USA, North America, sirc, montross, roofing, David Massey
Solar Frontier Americas acquires 50MW PV project from Samsung Solar Energy
Solar Frontier Americas has acquired a 50.5MW PV project purchased from CS Solar, a JV company of Samsung Solar Energy. The installation is located in Stanislaus County, California, just a few hours southeast of San Jose.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, California, USA, North America, solar frontier americas, Charles Pimentel, samsung, Seung-gul Lee
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
Financiers get behind 296MWdc merchant bifacial project in Mexico
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has lined up finance for a major bifacial solar project it will develop in Mexico’s centre without the help of subsidies.
Sep 19, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, bifacial, Latin america, ifc, Mexico, North America, frv, fotowatio
Brazil’s Cemig contracts renewable power from 197 MW of project capacity
Solar and wind projects selected in the company’s latest clean energy procurement exercise have been awarded a 19-year power purchase deal, starting from 2023. Cemig has now contracted green power from 780 MW of renewable project capacity in three tender rounds held since June last year.
Sep 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Engie, Enel, tender, South america, Brazil, Cemig
Australia’s Vic revamps solar planning rules amid rush for state incentives
Victoria has launched solar guidelines for installations larger than 1MW in a bid to ensure ease of connection and mitigate impacts on the environment and farming.
Sep 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, Victoria, Australia, Oceania, rooftop solar, large-scale solar
Virginia calls on wind and solar to achieve 100% carbon-free power by 2050
Virginia’s state governor has issued an executive order that reiterates the need to have “at least” 3GW of solar and offshore wind projects in development by 2022 in order to reach a string of ambitious new renewable energy production targets.
Sep 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, USA, Virginia, Dominion Energy, North America, Appalachian Power, renewable energy targets, renewables targets, Ralph Northam, David Murray, Sean Gallagher
Bird-inspired plant becomes Taiwan’s largest ground-mounted PV launch
Taiwan is now home to what is being billed as the territory’s largest ground-mounted solar plant, an installation modelled after an at-risk bird that migrates nearby every year.
Sep 18, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, pv power plants, Asia, Taiwan, birdseye, Nitin Apte, Sam Ong