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Canada's Switch offering its fifty percent of 75-MW solar partnership in Alberta
Canadian independent power producer (IPP) Switch Power Corporation has consented to market its 50% stake in a vehicle that owns 4 solar PV projects with an integrated capacity of 75 MW (AC) in Alberta, Canada.
Mar 17, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, IPP, North America, alberta, Switch Power Corporation
Cubico JV to develop Isle of Man's very first utility-scale solar park
UK renewables investor Cubico Sustainable Investments and also its joint venture companion Peel NRE are intending to construct a 26-MW solar park on the Isle of Man, readied to come to be the very first utility-scale solar farm in the independent British Crown dependency.
Oct 24, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, UK, Europe, Cubico JV, utility-scale solar park, Stephen Snowdon
Building of 80 MW solar energy plant underway in Albania
Works on the Erseka Solar Park near Korça in Albania remain in progress. The initial 2 segments are prepared for 40 MW, which would presently make it the largest facility of its kind in the country, and the capacity ought to later on be doubled.
Nov 1, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, PV Power Plant, Albania
X-Elio secures Portuguese oil and gas offtaker for 200MW of Spanish PV
X-Elio has enlisted a Portuguese oil and gas group as offtaker to a large-scale solar pipeline in Spain, adding to the country’s bustling PV power purchase agreement (PPA) scene.
Oct 8, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Spain, PPA, Galp, utility-scale PV, Europe, x-elio, oil and gas, offtaker
OX2 Acquires Huge Scale Finnish Solar Farm of 475 MW Capacity
The capacity under development is to be 475 MW. This makes it among the biggest solar farms in Finland. The solar farm, which is in the growth stage today, will certainly take pride in yearly energy manufacturing of roughly 475 GWh. This generation will aid power the yearly electricity use of near 95,000 homes.
Apr 18, 2023 // Plants, Europe, Finland, solar farm, OX2, Saku-Matti Mäki
Hormel Foods plant provides solar array to offset 15 percent of energy
Hormel Foods Corporation and IGS Solar have declared the completion of the solar energy project in the Hormel Foods Swiss American Sausage Company facility in Lathrop, California. The completion was celebrated in a Flip the Switch Event at the production facility, which produces an assortment of pepperoni and salami for foodservice pizza toppings.
Dec 12, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, California, USA, North America, igs solar, Hormel Foods Corporation, HOLT Renewables
North Macedonian utility embraces solar at expense of coal
State-owned power company Elektrani na Severna Makedonija, which is developing a 10 MW solar project at its coal plant in Oslomej, is planning to stop seeking a coal alternative to its depleted lignite mine and to instead expand the solar scheme to fully replace an ageing 125 MW thermal plant.
Sep 25, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Thermal, EBRD, Europe, North Macedonia, Elektrani na Severna Makedonija, thermal plant
Distributed, large-scale solar assistance Australia's grid as 4.3 GW of brand-new renewable capacity included
The fast growth of dispersed and large-scale solar has actually caused an improved reliability expectation for the majority of Australia as it prepares to go into summer.
Aug 27, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, ENERGY STORAGE, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Australia, AEMO, Oceania, grid, rooftop solar, grid stability, Audrey Zibelman, Tim Baxter
Improving the operational stability of perovskite solar cells
Hybrid perovskites are materials made from metal halide frameworks intermixed with natural cations.
Dec 28, 2022 // Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, perovskite solar cells
Albanian-based business to install 2 solar PV plants of 100 MW in total amount
Albania's government has actually released 2 licences for the installation of solar photovoltaic plants with a mounted capability of 50 MW each in the community of Fier.
Apr 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Europe, PV Power Plant, Albania
Spanish Renewable Energy Firm Sells 32.5 MWp of DG Solar Projects in Chile
Spanish Renewable Energy Firm Sells 32.5 MWp of DG Solar Projects in Chile
Feb 21, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Spain, Chile, South america, Europe, PV Power Plant, Grenergy
Novel method to simulate performance of a cell with up to 5 junctions
Italian scientific team has developed a new method combining the Hovel model with SMM. The novel approach allows describing electromagnetic radiation in a PV cell more accurately, considering interference effects. The device under examination is based on Ge, InGaAs and InGaP. The corresponding anti-reflection coating can make a cell with 3-5 junctions 50-percent efficient.
Jan 27, 2020 // Technology, Italy, Europe
Iberdrola bought to return chunk of land under 500MWp solar project in Spain
A Spanish court has ruled that Iberdrola has to return part of the come down on which its 500MWp Núñez de Balboa solar project has actually been constructed.
Jun 21, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Extremadura, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, núñez de balboa, utility, land acquisition
One more section of 300-MW solar facility goes onstream in Germany
German energy solutions company GP JOULE GmbH has actually commissioned an 80-MW solar farm in Brandenburg which is the second section of the Lausitz power park with a prepared installed capacity of virtually 300 MW.
Oct 6, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Germany, Europe, solar farm, GP JOULE GmbH
ZIMBABWE: Cement producer PPC to develop solar energy plant of 32 MWp
In Zimbabwe, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has chosen a company to develop and operate a 32 MWp photovoltaic solar energy plant in Colleen Bawn, in the Matabeleland South Province. Fifty percent of the electrical energy generated will be utilized to power PPC's centers and also the other half will certainly be fed into Zimbabwe's nationwide power grid.
Jul 10, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, Pretoria Portland Cement











