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Lightsource bp Launches Major Solar Farm in New Zealand
Lightsource bp breaks ground on a 170-MWdc solar farm in Christchurch, promising clean energy for 36,000 homes and marking a leap in renewable innovation.
Aug 30, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, New Zealand, Lightsource BP, Oceania, solar farm
Sonnedix Breaks Ground on 300MW UK Solar
Sonnedix has broken ground on five solar projects in the UK, creating 270 jobs and set to provide 300MW of clean electricity, powering the UK's decarbonisation and energy security goals.
Dec 7, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Sonnedix, Europe, PV Power Plant
Agrivert Expands Into Solar, Storage with Chiltern Buy
Agrivert, UK's leading biomethane producer, has acquired Chiltern Solar Limited, a provider of solar PV and battery storage solutions. Get the scoop on the acquisition and Agrivert's plans to broaden their customer base and provide new solutions.
Oct 16, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, Agrivert, Chiltern Solar Limited
Ameren Missouri Expands Solar Portfolio with 150-MW Illinois Park
Join Ameren Missouri in their commitment to sustainability with the purchase of a 150-MW solar park, expanding their Renewable Solutions programme.
Jun 13, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, ameren, Illinois, pv power Park
UK programmer wins Tregonning solar green light
Building can start on the 50MW project in 2024
Jan 17, 2023 // Plants, UK, Europe, Renewable Connections, Tregonning solar farm
Hevel finishes 'very first' off-grid crossbreed PV plant in Russian Arctic
Russian module and also cell maker Hevel Solar has created a 2.6 MW off-grid solar-plus-diesel project in the Chukotka self-governing area on the eastern shore of Russia, which the firm said is the initial of its kind in the Russian Arctic zone.
Aug 30, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Europe, Asia, Russia, Hevel Group, HJT, off-grid, hybrid projects
Ørsted Expands Solar Footprint with New Irish Project
Ørsted powers up Ireland with new 55-MW solar park, energizing 16,000 homes by 2026 and boosting its solar pipeline to over 700 MW.
May 6, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ireland, Europe, Ørsted, PV Power Plant
TPREL Gets LOA for 200 MW Solar Project from MSEDCL
Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), a subsidiary of The Tata Power Company Limited as well as among the considerable renewable energy players in the country, has received a 'Letter of Award' (LoA) from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), an entirely had business entity under the Maharashtra Federal government, to set up a 200 MW solar PV project in Solapur, Maharashtra. The letter complies with a similar award to SJVN recently.
Mar 22, 2023 // Plants, Ashish Khanna, tprel, tata power, MSEDCL, Solar Project, LoA, letter of award, total renewable capacity of TPREL
ESB, Bord na Móna Power Up Kildare with 108 MW Solar Farm
Bord na Móna and ESB join forces to develop a 108-megawatt solar farm in Kildare, Ireland. Providing enough energy to power 25,000 homes, this is the first of four projects with a target of 500MW and furthers the government's commitment to solar energy.
Jul 21, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ireland, Europe, Bord na Móna, solar farm, Esb
Octopus Renewables to get up-to-250-MW Irish solar portfolio from Statkraft
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc (LON: ORIT) has accepted acquire a portfolio of five solar projects in Ireland with a capacity of as much as 250 MW from Statkraft Ireland Ltd
Jul 26, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Ireland, Europe, Statkraft, Octopus Renewables
Dominion cleared to add 800 MW of solar, storage space in Virginia
US utility group Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) has been provided the thumbs up to add more than 800 MW of solar and also energy storage capacity to serve its customers in Virginia.
Apr 17, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Dominion Energy, North America
Research discovers plants would certainly expand well in solar cell greenhouses
A recent research reveals that lettuce can be grown in greenhouses that strain wavelengths of light used to generate solar power, demonstrating the usefulness of using transparent photovoltaic panels in greenhouses to produce electrical power.
Mar 22, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, North America, Brendan O'Connor, North Carolina State University, Harald Ade, Heike Sederoff
Thin-film maker Ascent Solar gets Nasdaq listing approval
Thin-film manufacturer Ascent Solar has obtained approval to be detailed on the Nasdaq Capital Market at the free market on Wednesday 24 August 2022.
Aug 24, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, thin-film, module manufacturers, nasdaq, ascent solar
Bolsonaro scraps solar tax planned by Brazilian regulator
The Brazilian president said the potential introduction of a grid fee for net metered solar systems will be eliminated thanks to an urgent ad-hoc decree expected to be approved soon by parliament. The proposed ‘solar tax’ would have affected all new PV installations with a generation capacity of no larger than 5 MW under Brazil’s net metering regime.
Jan 7, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, South america, Brazil, jair bolsonaro, ANEEL, Rodrigo Maia, David Alcolumbre, André Pepitone
LONGi, JinkoSolar, JA Solar Advocate M10 Module Standardisation
Chinese solar PV manufacturers JA Solar, JinkoSolar, as well as LONGi have launched a joint statement to reveal they have actually gotten to a consensus on the standardisation of PV modules generated that are based on M10 wafers.
Sep 14, 2021 // Manufacturing News, China, JA Solar, JinkoSolar, Asia, wafers, LONGi









