Grids

The New South Wales government has said that 3.5GW of solar PV, BESS and wind have been granted the right to connect to the South West REZ.

PV Talk: “We need more grid, but there are a lot of challenges and hurdles in expanding the grid,” José Visquert tells PV Tech Premium.

EnergyCo has awarded a contract to a consortium to deliver the Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) in New South Wales, Australia.

Providing transparent data on grid capacity and connection requests has become “critical” to identifying bottlenecks as grid congestion becomes an increasing impediment to new renewable energy projects.

PV Talk: Ben Hertz-Shargel, global head of grid edge at Wood Mackenzie, discusses the challenges of meeting huge growth in power demand from the tech sector and the measures being adopted to tackle the issue.

A study from consultancy LCP Delta has underlined the importance of flexibility to Europe’s energy transition as the dominance of renewable energy generation grows.  

PV Talk: Prabhakar Sharma from JMK Research talks to PV Tech Premium on the challenges of realising the potential of India's renewable energy tenders.

The changing landscape of international aid to Ukraine puts a new focus on its energy sector and the boom in self-consumption PV systems.

China's largest single-capacity PV power plant built on a coal mining subsidence area has officially entered commercial operation.

The Greenough River solar PV plant has been deemed the best-performing utility-scale solar asset in Australia in February 2025.