Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Energy company Avangrid has started the construction of two solar farms in Texas and Ohio with a combined capacity of 523.5MW.

Last week’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has brought doubts in terms of capital financing for the renewable industry with a big impact on the community solar market as the entity had financed up to 62% of the US community market.

Distributed energy platform Scale Microgrids has acquired over 100MW of community solar projects in New York from Netherlands-based developer Gutami.

Solar developer Lightsource bp has entered the German solar PV market and is aiming to develop between 300-400MW per year by 2030.

The Q1 2023 edition of our downstream solar journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download, including comprehensive coverage of agrivoltaics across several markets.

The European Commission has proposed to reform the EU’s electricity market design in a move to accelerate the uptake of renewables.

Solar developer ib vogt has selected PV tracker solutions provider Nextracker to supply trackers for the Garnacha 150MW PV plant in Spain.

A consortium of Dutch and German organisations led by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has developed a tandem solar PV module that is aimed to be introduced in European markets.

Belgian solar manufacturer Belinus has selected Belgium and Georgia to build 5GW of solar module manufacturing facilities to be operational by the end of 2025.

JinkoSolar has finished 2022 with 44.5GW of solar modules shipped globally and expects to have 60% of all shipments in 2023 from its n-type products.