Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

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.

Technology provider Fluence has signed an agreement with renewables investor Cubico Sustainable Investments to optimise the performance of 350MW of solar PV in El Llano, Mexico.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to add an extra US$110 billion in investment for utility-scale solar in the US by 2030, increasing the country's utility-scale deployment by more than 70GW.

REC Silicon and Mississippi Silicon have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that commits the companies to negotiate a raw material supply agreement and help establish a low-carbon and traceable US solar supply chain.

DESRI has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with public utility Cleco Power for a 240MW PV project in Louisiana.