Alice Grundy

Technologies to help tackle grid congestion could double the volume of solar and wind deployed by 2025, according to a new study.

France’s ninth auction for ground-based solar PV has seen 452MWp awarded, with average prices up 4.7%.

Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has created a new solar development and project acquisition business, PACE Poland, targeting an initial 100MWp in the country.

Financing platform Mosaic has joined forces with US residential solar installer Freedom Forever.

UK-headquarted Octopus Renewables has sold 173MW of Italian solar to utility A2A.

Rooftop solar PV installations grew 18% in Australia in 2020 despite the impacts of COVID-19, with Victoria in particular seeing a “spectacular comeback”.

Senior debt financing has been secured for the 116MWp Coara Marang solar farm being developed by Germany-headquartered ib vogt and Malaysian solar firm Coara Solar.

In this project round-up, NextEnergy makes acquisitions in Portugal and Chile and BayWa r.e. sells two solar sites in Malaysia to local power producer reNIKOLA Sdn Bhd.

In this round-up of project news, Lightsource BP unveils the completion of 260MW of solar in Texas, plans for 203MW in Poland are revealed by Respect Energy and Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives is selected as EPC for a Silicon Ranch asset.

A round-up of the latest news from the US solar market, including financing for Invenergy's 1,310MW project and CIT leads the financing for a 130MW Strata Solar portfolio.