Simon Yuen

Solar real estate company SolaREIT and alternative investment manager AB CarVal have closed an investment of up to US$250 million to grow its renewable land, lease and loan financing solutions.

Rooftop solar is gaining traction in Australia but not every renter can enjoy the advantages brought by it due to several reasons.

Arctech has signed a contract with the China Energy Engineering Corporation to provide 240MW of trackers to a project in Uzbekistan.

French utility EDF Renewables has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with South African state-operated utility Eskom for a hybrid project to be built in South Africa.

International energy company Uniper has announced a plant to develop two solar parks with a total capacity of 317MW in Lower Saxony, Germany.

German energy company RWE has started operating two solar PV projects with a combined capacity of 31.5MWp and their battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the Garzweiler opencast mine in Germany.

Pattern Energy has started the construction of its 3GW SunZia Transmission project that will offer clean power to western states of the US.

The Silicon Industry Branch of CNMIA published the latest solar-grade polysilicon prices on 23 August, which were on an upward trend.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a new round of funding to develop and deploy microgrid technologies across regional and remote communities, including a majority of it allocated for microgrid projects in First Nations communities.

Although the floating solar market is expanding, the top 10 countries that will have more than 500MW of cumulative floating solar installations by 2031 are entirely from Asia.