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Auction winner: Interconnection constraints limiting big solar in Japan
Rising interconnection costs and constraints are impacting Japan’s ability to contract large-scale solar capacity, according to a project winner in the country’s latest PV auction.
Jan 29, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, FiT, utilities, Asia, auction, interconnection, METI, curtailment, energy transition, Constant Energy, ciel & terre international, franck constant, Eva Pauly
Westbridge Renewable Acquires Canadian Battery Energy Storage PV Project
Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation has acquired the 295MWp Red Willow Project in Alberta, Canada, including 100MW/200MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS). This solar energy news highlights the potential of renewable energy sources and the commitment to sustainability.
Feb 2, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canada, North America, PV Power Plant, Westbridge Renewable
First Solar anticipates reduced sales in 2020 regardless of manufacturing rise
' Solar Module Super League' (SMSL) participant First Solar has actually anticipated web sales for 2020 to be in the series of US$ 2.7 billion to US$ 2.9 billion, contrasted to reporting 2019 sales of US$ 3,063 billion.
Feb 21, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, Mark Widmar, North America, thin film modules, cdte thin-film modules
Zelestra Activates 19MW Spain Solar for Graphic Packaging
Zelestra energizes 19‑MWdc Villamanan, third Spain vPPA with Graphic Packaging, delivering 28.7 GWh/year and avoiding 4,900 t CO2—pushing 100+ MWdc enabled, 1.1 GW contracted, 7+ GW pipeline.
Mar 12, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, Zelestra
LONGi planning 40GW mono wafer expansion as 100GW capacity target looms
LONGi Green Energy Technology Co, the largest monocrystalline wafer producer, has signed a new agreement to build a new 20GW wafer plant in Chuxiong, Yunnan province with further plans to expand capacity to 40GW in the future.
Jan 6, 2020 // Manufacturing News, China, c-si manufacturing, Asia, investment, monocrystalline wafer, longii
Nexamp Taps Mark Frigo to Lead Growing Energy Storage Company
Nexamp, a leading renewable resource generation and energy storage solutions carrier has introduced that it is speeding up the development of its energy storage portfolio with the addition of Mark Frigo as Vice Head Of State of Energy Storage.
Apr 6, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, ENERGY STORAGE, Nexamp, Chris Clark, Mark Frigo
Acciona Energia secures 12-year CfD for Croatia solar project
Acciona Energia secures 12-year CfD for Croatia's largest solar project, Promina, set to power 69,000 households annually by 2027.
Aug 6, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, PV Power Plant, Croatia, acciona energia
Green light for 150-MW solar PV project in Montenegro
The federal government of Montenegro in a session on Monday gave the green light to a local firm to begin a detailed development of a 150-MW solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) project in the southerly part of the Balkan country.
Mar 22, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, PV Power Plant, Montenegro
Coating could lead to commercial lithium-metal batteries
A new coating developed by scientists at Stanford promises to bring lithium metal batteries ‘closer to reality’, by significantly extending their operational lifetime and limiting the occurrence of dendrites at the anode, which can cause short circuiting and fires.
Sep 3, 2019 // Technology, California, USA, battery, North America, Stanford University, SLAC, Lithium metal, Zhiao Yu, Yi Cui
Enphase signs agreement to provide microinverters to Sunrun
Enphase Energy has signed a strategic supply agreement with Sunrun to provide its seventh-generation Enphase IQ microinverters to Sunrun for use in its residential solar business.
Nov 18, 2019 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Inverters, Sunrun, Enphase Energy, microinverters, Lynn Jurich, Badri Kothandaraman
Borrego will certainly construct its initial solar projects in Montana and South Dakota for Greenbacker
Solar installer Borrego has actually been chosen by Greenbacker Renewable Energy to engineer and also construct two utility-scale solar projects in Montana and South Dakota.
Oct 28, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Charles Wheeler, North America, PV Power Plant, borrego, Brian Barker
Microsoft clinches PPAs for 900 MW of renewables for Irish data centres
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) will procure electricity from more than 900 MW of new renewable energy projects in Ireland to power its data centres in the island country.
Nov 24, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Microsoft
Hecate Energy first to utilize Ideematec's latest trackers in solar project
Ideematec, a global solar tracking systems distributor, was picked by developer Hecate Energy to offer 4 MW of its Horizon L: Tec solar trackers for an approaching installation. The project, situated in Newberry, South Carolina, will certainly be installed by the construction and project administration solutions company, Reach Construction Group.
Nov 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Ideematec, hecate energy, Solar Project, Preston Schulz, Philipp Klemm
Sponsor protects concession for 50-MW solar project in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic's energy payment CNE has actually authorized a contract that grants a definitive concession to renewables sponsor Energia Renovable BAS SRL to develop the 50-MW/73.2-MWp Washington Capital Solar Park 3.
Jul 4, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Dominican Republic, North America, Solar Project
Israeli team basks in 300MW Spanish sun
Talasol solar farm has actually been grid attached and also is now creating electricity
Dec 29, 2020 // Plants, Spain, Europe, Ellomay Capital