Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

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.

The European Commission (EC) has approved a €2.9 billion (US$3.2 billion) French aid scheme supporting investment in green industries.

GreenIT, an Italian joint venture by oil group Eni and state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) Equity, has signed an agreement with renewables developer Galileo to build 140MW of solar PV in Italy.

Chilean solar developer Verano Energy has sold a 150MWp solar PV project in Argentina to an unnamed company.

Indian independent power producer (IPP) KPI Green Energy has signed a supply agreement for 300MW of bifacial mono-PERC modules from PV manufacturer Emmvee.

Solar PV projects’ operations and maintenance (O&M) are often overlooked during the development stage, according to Chris Stacy, director of business development at BayWa r.e. in the US.

BayWa r.e. speaks with PV Tech Premium on the use of satellite data and sheep grazing in the O&M stage to help save cost on a PV project.

Spanish oil major Repsol has started producing electricity on its 204MW solar PV project Sigma in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.