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The Covid-19 pandemic remains to cast a cloud on sectors worldwide, but the U.S. utility-scale solar segment is still growing, writes IHS Markit solar analyst Maria J. Chea. Around 3 GW of solar PV is set to be installed this year in Texas alone, however opportunities additionally are plentiful across several other southerly U.S. states.

Capital Dynamics has sold a 99% risk in its Beacon solar portfolio in Kern County, California, to lasting investment company TortoiseEcofin and Israeli building and construction group Shikun & Binui for an undisclosed amount.

A coalition of 22 US states and seven local governments have sued the Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) plan.

HASI will make a common equity investment in a concerning 1.3 GW portfolio of operating solar as well as wind projects situated in 6 states of the US. The general public company is also funding land had by AES for a solar project as well as a standalone battery energy storage system in California.

The French renewables company Voltalia has won the contract for the building and also operation of a 100 MW solar plant in Albania following its effective bid in a tender run by the Albanian Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy.

Enel Green Power North America has begun construction on two brand-new solar + storage space projects in Texas. Additionally, the company will certainly include batteries to the already functional Roadrunner solar farm.

Guzman Energy has actually authorized a power acquisition agreement with Primergy Solar on the proposed 155-MWac Hesperus Solar Project. Hesperus, situated in La Plata County on Colorado's western incline, could serve the energy requirements of nearly 56,000 residences every year.

German renewable energy firm Murphy & Spitz Green Energy AG has actually begun the building and construction of a 12.74-MWp solar park in Bavaria with commissioning planned for the 2nd quarter of 2022.

Cyprus-based chrome as well as platinum miner Tharisa plc (JSE: THA) has actually signed up with forces with France's Total Eren and Africa-focused power company Chariot Ltd (LON: CHAR) to get electricity for a mine in South Africa from a 40-MWp solar project.

BESS in Blackpool is connected to Electricity North West's (ENWL) 33kV network

Matrix Renewables energised its California-located Gaskell West 2 as well as 3 solar parks amounting to 143 MW DC and also finished the funding components for both projects.

A record quantity of solar capacity and energy storage is currently in US transmission interconnection lines, according to a new research study from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab).

Boralex has actually introduced that 4 of its solar power projects were picked by NYSERDA, as part of its 2019 Renewable Energy Standard Solicitation

Worldwide sustainable specialists will certainly guide the roll-out of huge quantities of solar as well as others in Africa, in a quote to aid the continent take advantage of its large environment-friendly power sources to power its feedback to COVID-19.

A University of South Australia research study has shown that solar owners offering electrical energy to the grid ought to position their panels to lessen the inconsistency in between peak usage and height production.