‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) leader JinkoSolar has reported record PV module shipments in the third quarter of 2018, while slightly lowering full-year shipment guidance.
Lightsource BP has moved into the Iberian energy market and plans to work with local partners to purchase and co-develop utility-scale ground-mount solar sites as well as to create a greenfield pipeline of solar projects across the Iberian Peninsula.
A pair of oil and gas giants, Algerian state-run company Sonatrach and Italy-based firm Eni, have inaugurated a 10MW solar PV project to power an oil field in Bir Rebaa North (BRN) in Algeria.
Australian firm Resolute Mining has signed an agreement with Africa-focused power developer Ignite Energy to set up a 40MW hybrid solar, battery and heavy fuel oil (HFO) plant at its Syama Gold Mine in Mali, according to an ASX filing.
French renewable energy firm Neoen has started commercial operation at its 189MW Coleambally Solar Farm in New South Wales, Australia, which is said to be producing the highest energy output of any solar farm in the country’s National Electricity Market at present.
France installed 8,374MW of solar PV capacity as of 30 September 2018, but is set to miss its target of 10,200MW by the end of the year, according to data from Electricity Transmission Network (RTE).
French power giant ENGIE has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply energy from a 130MW solar PV plant to steel producer, Gerdau, in northern Mexico.
ENGIE North America’s Distributed Solar team has closed on an investment from Goldman Sachs’ Alternative Energy Investing Group into a partnership that is managed by ENGIE.
Solar modules and deep cycle batteries have been stolen from seven secondary public schools in two municipalities in southern Palawan, in the Philippines.
