Tom Kenning

Global off-grid solar company BBOXX has closed on a US$5 million financing facility with Deutsche Asset Management’s fund Essential Capital Consortium that will help it bring power to 150,000 Rwandans.

Taiwan-based PV developer and EPC firm New Green Power (NGP) is to build a 14MW floating solar project in northern Taiwan, according to company director Kai Tan.

With one month to go before the Solar and Off-Grid Renewables Southeast Asia conference in Bangkok, PV Tech caught up with Franck Constant, president of renewables and storage investment platform Constant Energy, to discuss the current state of solar in the largest Southeast Asian markets.

AEP Ohio, part of major US utility American Electric Power, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for 400MW of solar capacity in Ohio.

Fiji has become the first emerging market to issue a green bond, according to the World Bank.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have both financed the Kennedy hybrid solar, wind and storage project in north Queensland, which is being developed Windlab and Eurus Energy.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has permitted 90 small-scale solar projects under the second stage of the Suryabala Sangramaya Programme.

Norwegian firm Saga Energy has signed a preliminary agreement with Iranian state-run firm Amin Energy Developers to build solar plants requiring investment of €2.5 billion investment (US$2.9 billion) in Iran, according to a Reuters report.

The main challenge for the project was a water level variation of 21 metres between summer and monsoon seasons.

Acciona Energía and Saudi Arabian firm Swicorp are to build and own three solar PV plants with a combined capacity of 186MW in the Benban solar complex in Aswan, Egypt.