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Australian developer ESCO Pascific sells 49% of their stake to Shell
Shell now has a firm grip on the Austria’s energy market after it bought 49% stake of the utility-scale PV developer ESCO Pacific. A few weeks ago, the oil mogul acquired ERM Power for AU 617 million (US$425 million).
Dec 17, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, shell, ESCO Pascific, erm power
Enel Green Power launches 132.2-MW solar project in Colombia
Latin American utility group Enel Colombia has started building a 132.2-MW (straight existing) solar farm in the Magdalena department of Colombia, launching a project that secured a long-lasting power purchase agreement (PPA) in the Colombian government's renewable energy auction in 2021.
Aug 23, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, South america, enel green power, Colombia, Solar Project
Iberdrola to release 1.4 GW of solar in Spain in 2022
Spanish utility Iberdrola SA (BME: IBE) claimed on Thursday that it is preparing to mount some 1,400 MW of new solar power in various regions of Spain over the coming months.
Aug 26, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe
California's 485-MW Blythe solar facility gets to full power
The 485-MW Blythe solar complicated and also its 387-MW battery storage system in California's Riverside County are totally operational, the Department of the Interior introduced on Wednesday.
Sep 26, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, California, USA, North America, PV Power Plant
Green Genius inks Polish solar offtake
PPA with Respect Energy is for output comparable to 21MW from a portfolio of projects incomplete
Oct 6, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, PPA, Poland, Europe, Green Genius
INVL-run fund grows Romanian portfolio with 174-MW solar purchase
A renewable energy fund run by Lithuania's INVL Asset Management has actually struck a deal to acquire a 174-MW solar project in Romania, expecting to go into construction towards the end of following year.
Oct 12, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, Romania, Liudas Liutkevicius, INVL Asset Management
Enphase reveals U.S. inverter manufacturing prepare for 2023
Microinverter maker Enphase has announced plans to launch four to 6 manufacturing lines in the United States by the second half of 2023 to capitalize on manufacturing production tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Microinverters are qualified for up to 11 cents/ WAC in manufacturing tax credits in the IRA.
Oct 26, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Inverters, USA, North America, Enphase
Silicon Ranch to power Denso factories with four Tennessee arrays
Silicon Ranch will build four PV plants to supply Denso’s Tennessee manufacturing sites, locking long-term price visibility for a major automotive supplier.
Sep 1, 2025 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Silicon Ranch, PV Power Plant, Denso
High power prices, falling PV costs and new regulations behind Brazil’s solar carnival
The nation’s thriving distributed generation market is flying, as was evident at last week’s Intersolar South America trade show. The sector seems unconcerned by mooted changes to net metering incentives in the new year and when even an environmental non-believer like President Bolsonaro is on side, it is difficult to be pessimistic.
Sep 8, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Inverters, Solar, USA, Sungrow, Canadian Solar, China, South america, Latin america, Europe, Brazil, Asia, Fronius, Greener, North America, Intersolar South America, Solar Promotion, Florian Wessendorf, utility scale solar, Marcelo Sousa, Ada Li, Thais Zampieri Bitancourt, Julian Rau, Trina, Álvaro García Maltrás, Apollo Chai, Rodolfo Meyer, Portal Solar, Marcio Takata, Lucas Troia
NIPSCO wraps up plans for 900 MW of new Indiana solar energy
North Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource, revealed that it will certainly bring an added 900 MW of solar power to Indiana with the Dunns Bridge I, Dunns Bridge II as well as Cavalry Solar Energy Centers as part of the firm's long-term generation approach.
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, nipsco, Mike Hooper, NextEra Energy Resources, Kendell Culp
260 MW Fishery PV Plant Is Largest in East China
Floating Solar obtained a massive increase with the appointing (grid connected) of a 260 MW fishery PV plant in Anhui, China.
Mar 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, China, floating PV, Asia, Huawei, CGN Dangtu
The globe's biggest solar power plants
In his second article, Philip Wolfe founder of Wiki-Solar checklists the globe's biggest private solar PV power plants. The most significant solar parks and also various other collections of plants will certainly be listed in subsequent blog sites.
Sep 9, 2021 // Plants, USA, Spain, India, China, Europe, Asia, Mexico, North America, UAE, PV Power Plant
'No plans' to change India's BCD amid module scarcity, financial investment needing to increase to hit climate targets
The Indian solar field looks set for considerable degrees of disturbances over the next 2 years, with the government's drive to develop a residential production base taking the chance of release and financial investments needing to double if it is to satisfy its climate targets, according to industry analysts.
Jun 13, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, pv power plants, pv modules, Asia, solar cell, mnre
Utilizing machine learning to find reliable and low-cost solar cells
Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering are making use of machine learning to identify new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Making use of high-throughput experiments and also machine learning-based formulas, they have actually found it is possible to anticipate the products' dynamic behavior with really high accuracy, without the demand to carry out as many experiments.
Apr 18, 2023 // Technology, solar cell, perovskite, University of California, Davis College of Engineering
Finance ROUND-UP: CleanCapital’s US$300m, Fotowatio’s loan, Soltage’s 200MW push
BlackRock-backed CleanCapital bags funding, 75.2MW purchase
Jul 22, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, CleanCapital, KDC Solar, C&I, Credit Suisse, BlackRock