Will Norman

Southeast US utility Duke Energy has sold its distributed commercial generation portfolio – including solar PV developer REC Solar and all of its assets – to investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

2023 is on track to be a “record year” for solar PV installations in the US; through August, 8.4GW of utility-scale solar was installed, 50% more than the equivalent point in 2022. In those deployments, some trends have emerged.

National Grid Renewables has begun operations on the 247MW Yellowbud solar PV project, delivering power to Amazon under a pre-arranged PPA.

Japanese corporation Sojitz and compatriot energy company Eneos has started operations at their 204MW Edenvale Solar park in Queensland.

Canadian-headquartered solar-plus-storage developer Watt Renewable Corporation has secured a US$13 million investment to deploy hybrid corporate & industrial (C&I) solar solutions across Nigeria.

Indian renewable energy firm Axis Energy Group has launched a joint venture (JV) with Brookfield India – the local arm of global investment firm and asset owner Brookfield – backed by an initial investment of US$845 million.

The German government is considering the possibility of imposing trade barriers on Chinese-imported solar modules and components to Europe, according to Reuters.

French oil giant TotalEnergies has acquired Ombrea, an agrivoltaics developer, for an undisclosed sum.

France has awarded 1.5GW of ground-mounted solar PV capacity in its latest auction, concluded this week (26th September).

LONGi has signed a deal to supply 100.1MW of its modules to renewables developer R.Power for projects in its native Poland.