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Secure Solar Futures sets up 313-kW array atop Virginia homeless shelter
This month, CARITAS started powering its one-of-a-kind healing and homeless solutions facility in Richmond, Virginia, with solar power.
Dec 6, 2022 // Plants, CARITAS, Secure Solar Futures, Ryan McAllister, Karen Stanley
African Infrastructure Gets Boost From $12 Billion Climate Fund
GCF commits $253.7 million to AFC Capital Infrastructure Fund Equity financial investment is largest made by GCF in Africa to date
Mar 21, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, gcf, AFC Capital Infrastructure Fund
SMA Solar's 2021 inverter sales drop because of chip shortage
SMA Solar Technology's sales for 2021 came in listed below previous expectations for the year as the inverter provider was affected by a shortage of digital chips-- a headwind it expects to persist in the coming months.
Apr 1, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Inverters, sma solar technology, Jürgen Reinert, covid-19, semiconductor shortage, sma solar, inverter supplier, semiconductor chip
Savannah Energy sings pact with Chad to develop 500 MW renewable projects
The projects will provide electricity to the Doba Oil Project and also the towns of Moundou as well as Doba in Southern Chad, and also the capital city, N'Djamena. Savannah Energy claimed it looks to fund the renewable projects from a combination of its own inside created cash flows as well as project particular debt.
Jun 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, BESS, Africa, chad, solar farm, Battery Energy Storage System, Savannah Energy, Andrew Knott, Djerassem le Bemadjiel, Doba, Kome, Mark Matthews, Moundou, renewable projects
Schneider Picks ACEN to Green Cavite Factories
Schneider Electric taps ACEN to power five Cavite sites with 100% renewables via GEOP—Luzon eco-zone first, 11,600t CO2 avoided—setting a scalable corporate PPA blueprint for Southeast Asia.
Jan 7, 2026 // Plants, Asia, Schneider Electric, Philippines, ACEN
Shumba Breaks Ground on 100-MW Botswana Solar Farm
Shumba Energy begins construction of its 100‑MW Tati Solar Project near Francistown, Botswana—an investment over BWP 1B—targeting commercial operations in 2027 and powering SAPP.
Jun 22, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Africa, Botswana, PV Power Plant, Shumba
Big money for Turkey’s 500 MW solar factory
With the Turkish government having given Kalyon Enerji another three years to build the 500 MW facility it won a tender to construct with former partner Hanwha Q Cells, Ankara has now committed a $333 million “super incentive” to the fab.
Sep 6, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Asia, Kalyon Enerji, Eren Engur, Hanwha Q Cells, Turkey
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Promising soiling mitigation solutions should not be left to gather dust
A study has estimated the cost of PV project soiling may increase from €3-5 billion last year to €4-7 billion by 2023 due to more extensive deployment in high insolation and soiling-affected regions, such as China and India. The authors of the paper outlined the potential of soiling mitigation technologies while stressing more R&D is needed to reduce costs and for the adoption of such measures on a larger scale.
Oct 25, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, India, China, Asia, coating materials, soiling
PV to drive renewables investing growth in 2021 however complete investment far from net no path-- IEA
Renewables are readied to make up 70% of international financial investment in new power generation capacity this year with solar PV leading the development, but investing on clean energy have to increase much more swiftly if the world is to fulfill its environment objectives.
Jun 2, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, solar finance, IEA, energy transition, solar investment, covid-19 recovery, International Energy Agency
Construction starts on 9-MW solar project under new TVA distributed generation program
BrightRidge, Silicon Ranch and also the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) broke ground Tuesday morning on a brand-new solar farm in western Washington County, Tennessee. The 9-MWac center will certainly be called the Martin Solar Farm in honor of the late Ralph Martin, that served for years as supervisor of the neighborhood power firm.
Jun 9, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, Silicon Ranch, tva, Solar Project, Doug Perry, Tennessee Valley Authority, BrightRidge, Jeff Dykes, Matt Kisber, Diana Harshbarger
Biggest US Solar Project Cancelled On Aesthetic Grounds
The cancellation notes the biggest pushback to a solar project in the United States till date. Local resistance to projects is not distinct to the United States, and is a concern in higher population locations like India as well.
Jul 27, 2021 // Plants, USA, North America, arevia power, International, Solar Project
Tesla Megapacks chose for Edify's 300MWh Australia battery portfolio
Tesla has been gotten to offer 150MW/300MWh of its Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS) remedy for projects in growth by Edify Energy in Australia.
Mar 23, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, EPC, TESLA, Australia, Oceania, new south wales, project news, national electricity market, supply deal, inertia, smart inverters, synchronous generation, synthetic inertia, virtual inertia
IRENA and also Ocean Energy Europe Companion to Drive Ocean Energy Market
New IRENA reports forecast a 20-fold development possibility of ocean energy by 2030, giving coastal neighborhoods with a climate-safe roadmap for COVID-19 recuperation
Dec 1, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Europe, IRENA, MoU, Francesco La Camera, covid-19, Ocean Energy Europe, Rémi Gruet
IFC, EBRD, and also EU to Support First Solar Project in Armenia
IFC, EBRD and also the EU have joined to sustain the advancement of the first utility-scale solar energy plant in Armenia, the 55 MW Masrik Solar Project.
Jul 16, 2020 // Plants, EBRD, Europe, Armenia, ifc, EU, International, solar projects, Mikel de Irala, IFC EBRD EU Armenia Solar, Cheryl Edleson Hanway