Power Plants

State-owned coal producer Coal India Limited (CIL) has secured a contract worth INR28.3 billion (US$296 million) to develop a 600MW PV project at the Jalaun Solar Park in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Firmus Technologies has signed a 12-year wholesale energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group, including 1.2GW of renewables by 2032.

A 1GW concentrated solar-PV hybrid complex built by China Three Gorges Corporation in Hami, Xinjiang has completed commissioning and entered commercial trial operation.

Vena Energy has raised A$1.4 billion (US$970 million) to support 614MW of solar PV capacity and 1,141MWh of BESS in Australia.

Over US$121 billion of investment across 92GW of renewables projects in the US is at risk from federal scrutiny, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Nama Power and Water Procurement has launched a tender for two utility-scale solar projects in Oman with a combined capacity of 1.5GW.

German energy firm RWE and Greek power supplier PPC have completed construction on a 930MW portfolio of solar PV projects in northern Greece.

Chinese PV manufacturer LONGi has unveiled a new containerised solar solution designed for remote off-grid industrial-scale applications.

eBOS hardware, long overlooked in PV design, is now central to solar project cost optimisation as technologies advance, writes Shreeyashi Ojha.

Pakistan installed 27GW of distributed solar in the last two years, prompting a 21% surge in electricity demand, according to a new report from UK-based energy think tank Ember.