The US residential PV market reached new heights in Q3 2019, Facebook will benefit from a new PV project in Georgia and more.

Solar Media's Editor in Chief Liam Stoker reflects on Boris Johnson’s victory and examines what the returning PM will have to do for the climate and energy sectors.

Investment bank joins EIB as they co-sponsor 436MW portfolio in European country and also backs CVE’s 110MW distributed generation pipeline in South American state.

SECI approves scheme that will see annual PV batches of 500MW deployed potentially anywhere in India every year until 2025, with supply underpinned by PPA with US$0.041/kWh tariff.

Leading PV industry association says 2GW of small-scale generation could be installed over a 12 month period as a much-needed supply source amidst national power crisis.

World organisations team up to help 100 countries ramp up green energy ambitions ahead of make-or-break 2020, amid claims that China, US and India hold terawatts in unused potential.

Purchase of 25% stake in AEML division by sovereign wealth fund QIA will fund plans to power part of one the world's largest cities with solar and wind.

ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy independent power producer, has signed off on joint venture partnership with South Korea’s GS E&C to help develop a 300MW PV project in Rajasthan, India.

Al Nowais Investments subsidiary also pens agreement for 500MW wind project in Aswan having bagged 50MW PPA in Togo last month.

New data from pro-coal Coalition claims country will “overachieve” emission reduction target thanks to controversial carbon accounting system disregarded by other countries.

Major European lender backs plans by developer IM2 of 15 new plants in Southern state, the latest solar move for bank vowing not to sponsor fossil fuel ventures going forward.

Solar Media's Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe take a look at how utilities across the world are increasingly deploying sizeable solar and/or storage plant, and discuss the rise and rise of long-duration storage.

Operators tell PV Tech of large-scale growth expectations for next year regardless of minor subsidy drop for large-scale and residential PV, proposed in latest government draft.

Chile and Colombia steer coordinated push by 10 countries to reach an average 70% green energy share by 2030, setting the scene for the rise of a 312GW renewable fleet over the next decade.

The project is one of five utility-scale PV plants located in Australia's most populated state being developed by a Photon Energy-Canadian Solar joint venture targeting 1.14GW.

Limiting solar’s share in the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) to 10% is “disappointing”, the Irish Solar Energy Association (ISEA) has said, whilst welcoming the ambition shown in decarbonisation.

Innovative Solar Systems is offering two large-scale PV projects in Texas for immediate acquisition. One installation is a 300MW PV project located in Jones County, Texas, while the other project is a 125MW solar installation in Fisher County, Texas.

Chinese firm boasts of dominance in the continent and market hold in Southeast Asia and Australia as deliveries reach the three-digit-gigawatt threshold across the globe.

Utility-scale solar moves now quickly following one another in country increasingly targeted by subsidy-free proponents, heralding revival of market paralysed years ago by policy swings.

Indian EPC giant launches construction works for 200MW solar project Lightsource BP is developing in Australia.

Government of global solar hotspot uses this year’s UN climate talks to announce earlier shutdown dates for nearly 700MW in fossil fuel capacity, set to be fully replaced by green energy.

International and local firms form joint venture to develop a record-breaking wind and floating solar venture behind one of the world's largest seawalls.

Capital expenditure (capex) for c-Si manufacturing (covering ingot/wafer and cell/module stages) is forecast at approx. US$9 billion in 2019, consistent with levels seen during 2017 and 2018.

LONGi Green Energy Technology Co, the largest monocrystalline wafer producer has announced major plans to further expand its ingot and wafer capacity past 2020.

NEXTracker has introduced its smart single-axis solar tracker family, 'NX Gemini’, which enables two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracking of either monofacial or bifacial PV modules. The next-generation two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracker is optimized for customer sites with hard soils, challenging terrain, irregular parcel shapes and high-wind requirements.

Delivering 103MWp Midden-Groningen within eight months involved installing 315,000 panels, setting up biodiversity-friendly areas and linking the plant directly to the Dutch grid.

Launch of solar and solar-plus-wind tenders totalling 2.4GW comes as some analysts question country can reach 175GW-by-2022 renewables aim.

AfDB's Sahel programme will sponsor the development of four 52MWp plants to help the energy-impoverished West African nation boost capacity by 15%.

Over 700 units are set to go under the hammer this week as part of court-ordered liquidation of Californian solar firm, brought down by FBI probe over Ponzi-style fraud allegations.

Brescia-based A2A to take over Talesun’s major pipeline, marking latest zero-subsidy endorsement for country working to restart formerly FiT-reliant PV market.