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Sonnedix Douro Solar Plant Goes Live, Fortifying Portugal’s Energy Transition
Sonnedix commissions the 150-MW Douro solar park in Tarouca, Portugal, under a 10-year Equinix PPA and targets doubling Portuguese capacity by year-end 2025.
Jun 19, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Portugal, Sonnedix, Europe, Equinix
Building of floating solar energy plant in Seychelles delayed due to COVID -19
The building of a floating solar energy plant in Seychelles will be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Located on the shallows at Le Rocher, in the central Mahe area of Les Mamelles; the utility-scale floating solar PV system will certainly be the first in Africa
Jul 3, 2020 // Floating PV, floating PV, Africa, Seychelles, COVID -19, Tony Imaduwa
Lowering costs for PV cooling analyses
Researchers in Malaysia have actually created a brand-new, less costly method to evaluate PV cooling strategies. Developers as well as suppliers of PV air conditioning systems might adhere to the specifications of the new strategy to review the efficiency and also bankability of their own devices, the researchers declared.
Jun 12, 2020 // Technology, Malaysia, Asia, PV cooling systems
Interview: PV Hardware chief operating officer Rodriguez talks heat dust and wind
Emilio J Garcia Rodriguez, from tracker manufacturer PV Hardware, spoke to pv magazine about the company’s activity in the Middle East and North Africa market. Dust, heat and heavy storms complicate the installation and operation of trackers.
Sep 11, 2019 // Solar, Spain, Europe, Emilio J Garcia Rodriguez, Hardware
ST's Bouskoura Plant to Utilize 50% Energy from Renewables by 2022
French-Italian semiconductor producing firm STMicroelectronics has actually announced that its Bouskoura site in Morocco will certainly obtain 50% of its energy from renewable resources by 2022 compared to 1% in 2020, as part of its activity strategy to accomplish carbon-neutrality by 2027.
Jul 28, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, Morocco, Renewable Energy, Bouskoura, STMicroelectronics, Fabrice Gomez
Germany to increase solar PV deployment on agricultural land
Germany is releasing a campaign to support the construction of solar projects on agricultural land, in a relocation the economy ministry price quotes could result in the release of 200GW of additional PV capacity.
Feb 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, Germany, Europe, Agriculture, bsw, agriPV
Solar Power Finds Ripe New Market in Crop Protection
Which solar panel works best with which crop? The response to that concern is being looked for in hundreds of farms worldwide.
Sep 10, 2020 // Market Research, USA, Japan, France, Germany, South Korea, China, Europe, Asia, Netherlands, North America, baywa r.e., tata power solar, Ashish Khanna, Stephan Schindele, Sascha KrauseTunker, Maximilian Vorast, Sohini Gupta, Ajit Jain
Ceylon Electricity Board Floats Tender for Solar PV Plants
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is looking for proposals from potential programmers (Project Proponents) for the building and construction of ground-mounted and floating solar PV power plants with an incorporated capacity of 30 MW on a build-own-operate basis with a 20-year operational duration.
Sep 5, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Asia, ground-mounted, Sri Lanka, Renewable Energy, Ceylon Electricity Board, floating solar PV power plants, Kanchana Wijesekara, Northern Province, Sustainable Development Authority
IIM-Tiruchi's 2 MW Solar Plant Rings in Savings For Institute
The Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli (Tiruchi) inaugurated its 2 MW solar plant early this month. With this, the country's 11th IIM ended up being the initial to have such a big scale solar plant to power its university.
Oct 12, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, India, Asia, REC, PV Power Plant, IIM Tiruchi, IIM- Trichy, Rural Electrification Corporation
Chevron looks to renewables to power Australian operations
The power business has revealed it will certainly build 500 MW of renewable energy projects to power several of its worldwide facilities under a four-year contract with Canada's Algonquin Power & Utilities.
Aug 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, Total Eren, Australia, Lightsource BP, Argentina, South america, Asia, Oceania, enel green power, North America, kazakhstan, New Mexico, Chevron, Allen Satterwhite
Solar duo toast 192MW PV in India
Ayana Renewable Power and also Maxeon Solar Technologies reach commercial procedures at the Bikaner 1 project
Mar 14, 2022 // Plants, India, Asia, Maxeon Solar Technologies, Shivanand Nimbargi, ayana renewable power, Jeff Waters
ACWA Power plans 3.6 GW of new fossil fuel capacity in Bangladesh
Renewables may be making encouraging advances in the south Asian nation but the natural gas infrastructure deal announced today by the Saudi power company at a stroke eclipses the 375 MW of solar capacity in Bangladesh and its 609 MW development pipeline.
Oct 22, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Asia, ACWA Power, Paddy Padmanathan, Rajit Nanda
Equator Energy powers Kenyan cement plant with 10-MW solar array
Equator Energy commissioned a 10-MW solar park for Mombasa Cement in Kenya, cutting costs, emissions, and grid dependence at an energy-intensive facility.
Oct 3, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Kenya, Africa, Equator Energy
Pahal Solar breaks ground on 2-GW cell plant in Gujarat
Pahal Solar began building a complex in Gujarat featuring a 2-GW solar cell factory and a 2-MW aluminum frame line to deepen India’s PV supply chain.
Oct 30, 2025 // Manufacturing News, manufacturing, India, solar cells, Asia, gujarat, supply chain
SPIES Packaging Goes Green: 10 MW Solar Power
SPIES' Lower Saxony factory to harness 10 MW of solar power from Juwi's Gesmold park, covering 20% of electricity needs and promoting sustainability.
Apr 11, 2024 // Plants, Germany, Europe, SPIES