JP Casey

The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has raised R$1.14 billion (US$200 million) to support the development of 402MW of new solar capacity.

Trina Solar has published its results for the first half of 2024, which include module shipments of 34GW and total revenue of US$6.05 billion.

The US distributed solar sector added 808,349 new operational systems in 2023, a record figure for a 12-month period.

LONGi Solar said that wafer prices had continued to fall below the cost since the second quarter of the year.

The US added 142,000 jobs to its clean energy sector in 2023, accounting for more than half of all new jobs added to the US energy industry.

Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) have emerged as a novel energy management solution, offering an effective means to address energy supply issues.

Arevon and Matrix have started construction on two projects in Indiana and Texas, while Ingeteam has supplied 1GW of inverters to US projects.

NZGIF has provided a NZ$78 million (US$48.7 million) financing facility to FNSF to help complete around 1.1GW of new solar projects.

Europe and the US could need to announce close to 200GW of new clean energy capacity by 2030 to meet the world’s energy transition goals.

Several Chinese provinces have suspended the approval of new distributed PV projects amid concerns over available grid capacity.