The streamlining of all phases of a PV project will be essential to ensuring anticipated deployment goals are met. Tom Kenning looks at the AI-enabled technologies helping speed up project construction and easing a shortage of skilled labour.
Enel Chile, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Enel, has received authorisation from the National Electricity Coordinator to begin commercial operations of a 99MW solar PV plant in Chile.
“Every year, we see more attention from our customers, for whom this is becoming more at the top of their minds. Usually in PV, it’s been volume price and spec of the product. But now it's also how do we make that product, besides pure performance,” says Cemil Seber, VP of global marketing at REC Solar.
India-based renewables developer Avaada Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian government of Gujarat to develop 6GW of hybrid solar-wind capacity.
Europe has to find a balance between a rapid need to scale up PV manufacturing capacity and innovation to remain competitive, according to a report from The European Technology & Innovation Platforms for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV).
Infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital has agreed to invest up to US$400 million in Brazilian distributed generation company Órigo Energia.
Indian commercial and industrial (C&I) renewables developer Serentica Renewables has secured funding for a 530MW round-the-clock hybrid project in India.