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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
Saudi Arabia Unveils 4.5 GW Renewable Energy Tender
Saudi Arabia accelerates its green revolution, launching a tender for 4.5 GW of solar and wind projects, aiming for 50% renewable energy by 2030. Bright future ahead!
Sep 25, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Saudi Arabia, tender, Asia
Ørsted Unveils 320-MW Solar Farm Plans in UK
Ørsted A/S unveils plans for a 320-MW solar farm in East Riding, reinforcing the UK’s renewable energy future and commitment to sustainability. A bright step towards greener horizons!
Jan 22, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, PV Power Plant, Ørsted A/S
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
COVID-19: Latest evaluation on influence to United States utility-scale as well as domestic solar
The background for the United States property market has actually swiftly soured after California-headquartered SunPower Corp warned of reduced anticipated company and also succeeding hit to its annual report estimates for 2020.
Apr 2, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, California, USA, Wood Mackenzie, pv power plants, pv modules, residential, Sungevity, North America, Roth Capital, Coronavirus, covid-19, sunpower corporation, sunworks inc
Trina Solar Wins First 100MW+ Contract in India for its New Vertex Bifacial Modules
Trina Solar Carbon Monoxide Ltd, a leading service provider of incorporated photovoltaic (PV) components as well as clever power remedies, has actually won an agreement from Noida-headquartered SunSource Energy to provide 105 MW of its brand-new Vertex components.
Apr 30, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, Trina Solar, bifacial modules, Adarsh Das, Helena Li, Kushagra Nandan, SunSource Energy, Vertex Modules
Al Dhafra Solar Project, Abu Dhabi
Al Dhafra solar project is a 2GW photovoltaic (PV) independent power manufacturer (IPP) project, which will be situated in Al Dhafra area, around 35km south of Abu Dhabi City in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Aug 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, pv power plants, Asia, United Arab Emirates
US ROUND-UP: Gap diversifies; 125MW PPA in MI; Military-funded space solar; Solar bees
Global retail brand Gap moved one step closer to its goal of fully renewably-powered operations by 2030 after signing a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Enel Green Power North America. It has purchased 90MW of energy from the renewables giant's North Dakota wind project for a period of 12 years.
Aug 13, 2019 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Solar, USA, SunPower, plants, Michigan, cleanchoice energy, solar bees, Antonio Cammisecra, air force, university of toledo, solar space, upper peninsula power company, power purchase agreement, orion renewable energy group, map energy, gap, North Dakota, enel green power, the chandler solar project, North America
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
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
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