News

A renewables procurement round launched today (19 March) by the government of South Africa will aim to source 2.6GW of clean energy capacity, of which 1GW will be solar PV and 1.6GW wind.

A round-up of the latest news from the US solar market, including updates from Invenergy, SunPower and the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Indian PV developer Adani Green Energy has raised a US$1.35 billion debt package to initially support the construction of a 1.69GW hybrid portfolio of solar and wind projects in the state of Rajasthan.

Italy has signed the framework International Solar Alliance (ISA) agreement with India as the coalition’s new director general took office this week.

The world’s solar power generation capacity will have to reach 14.4TW in the next 30 years to ensure that the global temperature does not rise above 1.5 degrees celsius this century.

Solar Balance of System (BOS) solutions provider Shoals Technologies has celebrated a “record year” in which revenues grew 21%, placing various post-IPO targets firmly in its crosshairs for 2021.

‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar is guiding a significant increase in PV module and energy storage shipments, resulting in full year 2021 revenue of between US$5.6 billion to US$6.0 billion, over 70% higher than revenue reported for 2020.

Emergent wafer provider lands second poly supply deal this week as it eyes 50GW of 210mm large-size solar wafer capacity by 2023

A Colorado PV park that is said to be the largest agrophotovoltaic research project in the US has been completed with trackers from Solar FlexRack

Advisory, audit and testing group UL has unveiled a new service for utility-scale renewable hybrid power systems to evaluate their potential profitability.