Dutch company and owner of IKEA Ingka Group’s investment arm Ingka Investments has acquired a 49% share of a 460MWp solar PV portfolio from energy company Avapa Energy.
SPI Energy's PV manufacturing subsidiary Solar4America has said that it will start manufacturing heterojunction technology (HJT) n-type solar cells in the US by the end of 2024.
Solar developer Heelstone Renewable Energy has closed a tax equity investment for four solar projects in Georgia, the US, with a cumulative capacity of 320MWdc.
The European Commission (EC) has granted €3.6 billion (US$4.04 billion) to 41 large-scale clean tech projects via the EU Innovation Fund, including three projects on PV modules under the clean tech manufacturing category.
German renewables developer MaxSolar has secured a €410 million (US$460 million) financing facility to support 2GW of solar PV and co-located storage projects in the next five years.
The CEO Alliance, which includes utilities Iberdrola and Enel, has released a policy paper which recommends the European Union to accelerate and simplify permitting procedures for renewables.
Despite projections that solar PV and wind generation capacity will more than double by 2035, the Texas transmission grid will need to be upgraded to avoid increased asset curtailment across the state.
