Grids

Utilities must rise to the “challenge” of increasing renewable energy deployment, while disruptive threats posed to utility companies by distributed generation and renewables should be kept to a minimum, according to top names at the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Dubai Electricity and Water has shortlisted developers for the tender for the 100MW second phase of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.

Manufacturer and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, Tata Power has completed a 3MW solar power plant in just 45 days.

The US state of North Carolina is to continue blooming with new solar projects, as 64MW of new solar sites reach construction.

US thin-film manufacturer, First Solar is to build a 45MW solar power plant in the state of Telangana, India.

The Canadian province of Ontario is preparing to install a variety of new energy storage technologies after finalising details of a 34MW grid storage trial.

One of the largest investor-owned utilities in the USA is looking to use a series of measures that are likely to include customer-side energy storage in order to stave off the need for US$1 billion worth of infrastructure investment.

Solar manufacturer and developer, SunPower has begun construction of a 135MW solar power plant.

Large-scale solar developer, SolarReserve, has signed a supply contract to sell power from a 20MW plant it is building in El Salvador.

The first grid-connected energy storage facility in Canada, in the country’s leading solar province, Ontario, is now operational.