According to a new Fitch Ratings report, fixed-price power purchase agreements and public incentives have proven to help shield renewable energy from pricing risk.
PV industry leader JinkoSolar announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc., will begin providing residential PV financing to consumers through the GreenSky programme in the US.
The “extraordinary amount” of money Germany has spent transitioning away from fossil fuels and nuclear is looking increasingly like an investment in the country’s future competitiveness, according to the chief economist of the US Underwriters’ Laboratory.
Canada-based renewables firm SkyPower has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the Indian state of Telangana for four PV projects totaling 200MW combined.
Indian state-owned utility NTPC is collaborating with two German institutions, DLR Cologne and the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy (ISE), on a number of solar research programmes.
Tech giant Apple has said that solar and energy storage projects will be among the priorities for expenditure under its inaugural green bond, which the company issued earlier in the week to the tune of US$1.5 billion.
