Andy Colthorpe

Energy infrastructure group TC Energy has begun work on a solar PV power plant in Alberta, Canada, the company’s first solar project.

Renewable Energy Target auction held in Victoria, Australia, won by six solar PV projects, four of which include battery storage.

Queensland gets about 21% of its energy from renewables, but the state government has just set an increased target of 70% renewables by 2032.

Naturgy has bought a large-scale hybrid solar-plus-storage project in development in Australia.

Expressions of Interest have been invited for ‘round-the-clock’ renewable energy in India by NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN).

US$1 billion financing has been secured for a ‘Round-The-Clock’ (RTC) renewable energy project in India, marking the biggest single-project clean energy deal in the country, developer ReNew Power has claimed.

A power purchase agreement has been signed for the output of a large-scale solar-plus-storage power plant in Arizona by municipal utilities and local authorities.

The installed cost of solar PV, solar-plus-storage and standalone battery energy storage in the US was reduced across all market segments between 2020 and 2021, with the biggest drop seen in the utility-scale segment. 

The Cabinet of Japan’s government has approved a plan to raise the national target for renewable energy in the electricity generation mix to between 36% and 38% by 2030. 

Online retail giant Amazon has signed a 10-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) in Japan with Mitsubishi Corporation for the output from 22MW of solar PV plants.