Already set to develop a wind project in Lancaster County, Nebraska, NextEra Energy is reportedly in talks to also develop a large-scale PV project in the northeastern part of the US state.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Expo 2020 Dubai and Siemens have broken ground on a joint project that will become the Middle East and North Africa's first solar-based hydrogen electrolysis facility.
China-based PV firm ReneSola has secured a €13.4 million bridge financing agreement with Eiffel Energy Transition Fund for solar projects including 41.3MW in Hungary and 55MW in Poland.
Major PV single-axis tracker firm, NEXTracker has secured a major contract with Latin American renewables firm, Atlas Renewable Energy to deploy its ‘TrueCapture’ self-adjusting tracker control system across its fleet of PV power plants.
Specialist semiconductor and PV equipment supplier Intevac has said that it finally recognised into revenue on three of four ‘ENERGi’ solar ion implant tools, which had already been shipped to a PV manufacturing customer in China in the third quarter of 2017.
The corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) market is currently struggling from a “large gulf” in understanding that standardised contracts could solve, but the industry is still a “long way off” from introducing them.
Tesla reported as expected lower solar system installations for the fourth quarter of 2018, while citing continued testing of its roof tile system for a still vague roll-out timetable for mass production and deployments.
