Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Utility giant Iberdrola will commission 1.4GW of solar PV in Spain in the coming months, with 12 projects already in construction.

Against the backdrop of Europe's energy crisis and the war in Ukraine, power purchase agreements in Poland have been garnering increasing attention from utilities and corporates alike that are concerned with future prices trends and are opting to lock in supply now at higher prices.

German utility RWE has acquired Polish developer Alpha Solar which has a solar project pipeline of nearly 3GW.

The "world's largest" building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) project has been completed in China using Sungrow inverters.

PV project developer and EPC firm SPI Energy has signed a letter of intent to secure 1.5GW of solar wafer manufacturing equipment for a US production facility.

QatarEnergy has selected Samsung C&T as the EPC contractor for two large-scale solar PV plants in Qatar with a total capacity of 875MW.

Norfund and Norwegian pension company KLP have agreed to take a 49% stake in a 420MW solar PV plant in India developed by Enel.

German utility RWE has started construction of a 100MW ground-mounted PV pipeline in Spain, made up of three separate projects, with the capacity spread across the provinces of Badajoz and Guadalajara.

Two Indian state-owned companies, Bharat Electronics and NHPC, have signed a MOU to establish a gigawatt scale solar manufacturing site in India.

Thin-film manufacturer Ascent Solar has received approval to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market at the opening market on Wednesday 24 August 2022.