Petrochemical company INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy for a 310MW solar project in north central Texas.
Fund manager Glennmont Partners has entered the US market through a joint venture (JV) with solar developer GreenGo Energy to develop 1GW of solar and storage capacity.
US energy company DTE Energy and car manufacturer Stellantis have signed an agreement to add 400MW of new solar projects across Michigan through DTE’s MIGreenPower renewable energy programme.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed separate agreements with Polish state-owned utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) and Czech energy utility company ČEZ to help modernise the distribution networks of both countries.
Lightsource bp has been given the green light to begin development on what it said will be Trinidad and Tobago’s first large-scale solar project, a 148MWp plant located across two sites.
The US installed 4.6GW of solar capacity during Q3 2022, a 17% decrease from the same period last year, as trade barriers continue to hamper deployment, according to research from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.
Heterojunction cell and module manufacturer Meyer Burger has established a new series of partnerships to research and develop perovskite tandem solar technology, with a view to bringing the technology to industrial scale.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled a new ‘paper-thin’ solar PV cell that can be applied to a variety of surfaces to generate highly integrable, versatile solar energy, they say.
