Power Plants

Bright Saver co-founder Cora Stryker examines how fragmented state policies are shaping the US plug-in market’s growth.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) will funnel US$5.25 billion into 31 “grid-improvement” projects across the US, which it claims will allow for 23GW of additional electricity capacity.

The replacement of decommissioned solar projects will account for 23% of new capacity additions by the 2040s, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Henner Jahnke of Jurchen Technology examines whether high-density east-west systems can outperform trackers under today’s solar economics.

This week's PV Chart of the Week looks at the breakdown in forecast global inverter shipments from European-headquartered manufacturers.

MITECO has launched consultations to allocate up to 11GW of grid capacity to renewable energy and storage projects.

ARENA has committed AU$25 million to Equans Solar & Storage for a three-year programme testing construction and operations technologies.

Nadara has started commercial operations at the Big Fish agrivoltaics (agriPV) project in Italy, the largest agriPV project in the country.

Abu Dhabi’s utility, Emirates Water and Electricity (EWEC), is targeting more than 35GW of solar capacity by 2035.

The US clean energy sector has gone from creating 100,000 new jobs a year to shedding nearly 40,000 in 2025, according to a report by E2.