Power Plants

This week's PV Chart of the Week looks at trends in the country of origin of companies producing inverters on US soil.

PowerBank has reacquired two New York community solar projects totalling 13.9MW, with a combined construction value of US$32.5 million.

US commercial renewable energy developer ForeFront Power has begun operations at a solar PV installation in California, which is mounted flat directly onto the ground.

Freyr Energy has launched a range of single-phase solar PV inverters with 3kW and 5kW models using silicon carbide (SiC) technology.

French energy major Engie has signed a deal to supply power from a 61MW solar PV project to a data centre in Irving, Texas.

Dimension Energy has secured US$857 million in additional capital to expand its distributed solar platform across 29 projects in the US.

India installed a record 27GW of solar capacity in the first half of 2026, up 49% year on year, according to Mercom.

Germany’s federal network agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has allocated 2,135MW of PV in the country’s latest ground-mounted solar auction.

India’s PM-SSY targets 5GW of floating solar and storage, but execution and financing remain key challenges, says expert.

Residential solar and energy storage provider Sunrun has signed an agreement with distributed energy resource platform Voltus to support its Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) programmes for AI hyperscalers.