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Australia Faces Bill Shock as Renewables Rollout Lags
Australia risks pricier power as renewables lag. Fast‑track batteries, transmission and planning, empower homes with solar, smart tariffs and VPPs to hit 2030 targets and retire coal smoothly.
Dec 5, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, Australia, Oceania, transmission, electricity prices
Tokyo Century, Kyuden Tap 20-Year Philly Solar Deal
Tokyo Century and Kyuden split a 20‑MW Pennsylvania solar, secured by a 20‑year PPA; October go‑live underscores Japanese capital’s charge into contracted U.S. clean power, with storage optionality ahead.
Jan 8, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Kyuden, Tokyo Century
Afreenergy Solar Secures Funding for Senegal Storage
Afreenergy Solar secures new financing to scale solar-plus-battery projects in Senegal, cutting fuel costs and boosting grid stability—banked on strong off-take, EPC delivery, and reliable storage performance.
Mar 27, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, solar plus storage, Africa, financing, Senegal, Grid reliability
FRV Secures Permits for 183.6 MW Solar Spain
FRV secures permitting for 183.6MW of Spain solar, de-risking late-stage projects for financing and EPC. With “battery-ready” design, storage upgrades can boost evening returns and flexibility.
Apr 6, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Spain, Europe, frv, permitting, development, solar portfolio
Blackstone Funds to Power Sunotec’s Global Solar Expansion
Blackstone-backed funding will help Sunotec scale EPC delivery and solar-plus-storage projects worldwide—boosting faster, repeatable execution, procurement leverage, and commission-ready PV and battery deployments.
Apr 7, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, EPC, blackstone, Sunotec
R.Power Lands ING Financing for 80-MWp Solar
R.Power secures EUR 39.8M and PLN 18M financing from ING Bank Śląski for an 80-MWp Poland solar plant, backed by a 15-year PPA for 2,625 GWh.
Apr 13, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Poland, Europe, corporate ppa, r.power, project finance
Tunisia Adds 8MW Solar Under Licensing Push
Tunisia launches four 2-MW solar plants in Medenine—adding 8 MW under its licensing drive. With 187 renewable licenses, rooftop solar and utility projects cut costs and gas imports.
Apr 13, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Tunisia, Africa, rooftop solar, mena, solar capacity, licensing regime
Constant Energy Locks Loan for 30MW Malaysia Solar
Constant Energy secures debt financing for a 30-MW solar project in Malaysia, unlocking EPC execution and tighter schedule control to boost deliverability, commissioning quality, and faster grid-ready deployment.
Apr 23, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Malaysia, Asia, Southeast Asia, Constant Energy, Solar Project, loan
GS Power Secures AB CarVal Tax Equity for 41 MW
GS Power Partners secured $51M+ tax equity from AB CarVal for a 42 MWdc community solar portfolio, closing a key 41 MW allocation to accelerate distributed solar construction and operations.
Jun 4, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, GS Power
Meta Taps Lightsource bp for Louisiana Solar Power
Lightsource bp secured a long-term PPA with Meta for its 150MWac Mowata Solar project in Louisiana—boosting clean power for data centers, ensuring revenue certainty, and strengthening regional solar growth.
Jul 24, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Lightsource BP, North America, PV Power Plant
Trump Bars Foreign Electric Grid Equipment in U.S.
Trump’s emergency order targets foreign-made electric transformers for U.S. grid projects, citing national security and reliability—pushing agencies to reduce reliance on overseas suppliers.
Aug 28, 2026 // Grids, Policy, USA, Trump, North America
Have your say on NSEFI best practice guidelines for utility scale PV
The National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) is continuing to step up its efforts to ensure the quality of large scale solar projects. The body is now looking for stakeholder input into its new best practice guidelines for PV power plant projects, as a part of its ongoing Quality Taskforce initiative.
Sep 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Solar, India, Asia, SolarPower Europe, NSEFI, Subrahmanyam Pulipaka
Cubico, Celsia team up to bring large-scale PV boost to Colombia
Colombia’s still-dormant solar scene is poised for a major boost under a new partnership, bringing together a European and a Latin American player.
Oct 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Canadian Solar, EDF, South america, Europe, Brazil, Oceania, enel green power, Trina Solar, Mexico, North America, cubico, large-scale pv, Acciona, Colombia, celsia, pension fund
Algerian 150 MW solar tender secures final price of $0.069/kWh – and only a third of the capacity
The Algerian Electricity and Gas Regulation Commission has concluded a tender launched in June. The one solar project selected will sell power at DZD8.28/kWh. The authority reportedly only published ceiling prices for energy bids on the day the exercise was completed.
Oct 30, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, tender, Africa, Algeria, Malek Drif, CREG, Al-Muchkat’s Drif
Kahramaa Closes Financing for World's 2nd Cheapest Solar Power Project
Kahramaa has actually revealed the effective monetary closure for the Siraj-1 solar energy plant project, the first of its kind project in Qatar
Jul 24, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Asia, Qatar, Kahramaa, International, Solar Project