Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

US power distribution company Entergy Louisiana has sought approval to add 3GW of solar PV power to its generation mix in Louisiana.

Indian independent power producer Hero Future Energies has planned to invest INR30,000 crore (US$3.6 billion) in renewables in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Fixed DC-coupled architecture for solar-plus-storage is slowly becoming an industry standard for hybrid resources projects with greater benefits.

US renewable developer Invenergy has partnered with solar module manufacturer LONGi to build a 5GW module assembly plant in Ohio.

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.