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Developer seeks responses on 350MW UK solar titan
Community consultation on Mallard Pass project in eastern England runs until 16 December 2021
Nov 4, 2021 // Plants, Canadian Solar, UK, Europe, Gary Toomey, MALLARD PASS
Juwi to decarbonise Egyptian gold mine with solar-storage project
German developer as well as EPC specialist juwi has actually secured a deal to layout, supply as well as construct a solar-storage hybrid project at an off-grid gold mine in Egypt.
May 5, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Grids, Asia, Africa, Egypt, decarbonisation, mines, juwi, solar-storage, north africa, off grid, Dave Manning
Lightsource BP obtains nod for 400MW Oz solar
Wellington North project in NSW adjoins the 200MW near-complete Wellington PV farm
May 13, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Lightsource BP, Adam Pegg, Oceania, Solar Project
African coal plant driver looks to solar for new power JV
Mozambique-based coal driver Ncondezi Energy has actually revealed a joint endeavor (JV) with South African-based NESA to target South Africa's C&I solar as well as storage space markets
Jun 14, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Africa, Mozambique, Ncondezi, australia energy storage council, NESA, offgrid solar
Soltec lands bifacial tracker manage Statkraft for 234MW of solar projects in Spain
Soltec has signed a contract to provide its SF7 bifacial solar trackers to Norwegian state-owned utility Statkraft for use in 4 PV projects being created in the southern Spanish area of Andalucía.
Jun 30, 2021 // Plants, Spain, bifacial, Europe, trackers, Soltec, Statkraft, Andalusia, supply deal
RBH invests $20m in DPA to give solar energy
Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH), an African community investment company is considering making a US$ 20 million equity financial investment in DPA Africa Asset-Co. The firm, set up by Distributed Power Africa (DPA), will certainly offer 175 MW of solar energy in some of its markets in Africa over the following four years.
Nov 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, Royal Bafokeng Holdings
Iberdrola to make takeover bid for Infigen Energy in Australia
Spanish electric utility business Iberdrola is set to make a takeover bid for Australian renewables firm Infigen Energy for A$ 840m ($576m).
Jun 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Iberdrola, Australia, Oceania, Ignacio Galán, Infigen Energy
France allocates 858 MW in PV tender
The average price guaranteed to the winners of the tender’s sixth window is €64/MWh. For installations above 5 MW, the price is €59.5/MWh, which is higher than the fifth window.
Aug 6, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, France, tender, Europe, installations, utility-scale, Elisabeth Borne
USTDA backs 150MW solar-plus-wind-plus-storage project in Zambia
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has agreed to finance a feasibility study for a 150MW hybrid solar, wind and battery plant in northern Zambia.
Aug 13, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, First Solar, hybrid, solar-plus-wind-plus-storage, grid, Africa, upepo energy partners, zambia, east africa, ustda, wsp usa
Microsoft to buy 230MW from Engie’s clean energy duo in Texas
Microsoft has purchased 85MW of solar energy from Engie as part of a broader agreement covering 230MW of clean energy generated by the developer's Texas operations.
Sep 25, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Engie, First Solar, Microsoft, North America, corporate ppa
Burkina Faso welcomes bids for building and construction of four PV solar power plants
The federal government of Burkina Faso through the national power utility Sonabel, officially Societe Nationale d'electricite du Burkina Faso, has actually released a Notice of Invitation to Tender (AOO) requiring bids for the engineering, purchase, and also building and construction of four photovoltaic or pv solar power plants with a total capacity of 9 MWp in three different areas in the West African country.
Sep 4, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, pv power plants, Urbasolar, Africa, Burkina Faso, Sonabel, African Development Bank (AfDB), government of Burkina Faso, Societe Nationale d’electricite du Burkina Faso, Yeleen Rural Electrification Project
Chile connects first floating PV plant to grid under web payment plan
Programmer Solarity has finished the first floating PV selection to be connected to the nationwide circulation network under Chile's net billing plan. The plant will supply 100% of project owner Hortifrut's power requirements, while allowing it to sell excess power to the grid.
Sep 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Chile, floating PV, South america, Solarity
Western Australia's biggest PV project currently operational
Risen Energy's 132 MW Merredin Solar Farm has actually been connected to the Western Australian grid.
Aug 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Risen Energy, Oceania, solar projects
Azelio’s storage solution switched on at Noor-Ouarzazate complex
Swedish storage company Azelio has started producing electricity from energy storage at a verification project at the Noor-Ouarzazate solar power station in Morocco.
Jan 2, 2020 // Storage, ENERGY STORAGE, solar plus storage, Africa, Morocco, Concentrated solar power, azelio, northern africa
Australian battery company Solar SG in growth mode
To take Australian solar battery storage installation company Solar SG into its next growth phase, a new chairman and chief executive officer have been appointed.
Oct 29, 2019 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Solar SG, Rod Woolley, Donna Freer