A round-up of the latest news from the power purchase agreement market, including a virtual PPA between EDF and Thermo Fisher Scientific in Texas, Engie signing a 116MW PPA with Digital Realty in Germany and PG&E securing 30MW of community solar PPAs.
Danish developer Better Energy and pension fund Industriens Pension have expanded their partnership with a further investment of €800 million in solar parks across Northern Europe.
Activities under the new Regional Emergency Solar Power Intervention Project, a US$311 million regional project for which the World Bank supports, have started in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The European Commission has released its Green Deal Industrial Plan based upon four pillars aimed to scale up a domestic manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies.
Non-profit environmental law organisation Earthjustice has filed a complaint with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission challenging a rule that prevents renewables to provide ancillary services.
Spanish utility Iberdrola has received environmental approval for the construction of Europe’s largest solar PV plant in Portugal, with a capacity of 1.2GW.
Energy giant Statkraft has received environmental permits for the construction of 613MW of solar PV projects in the Spanish regions of Murcia and León.
