Markets & Finance

Renewable energy company Leeward Renewable Energy has closed financing for its solar project 'Horizon solar facility' in Texas. 

Distributed energy platform Scale Microgrids has acquired over 100MW of community solar projects in New York from Netherlands-based developer Gutami.

Asset investor Kajima Europe and equity investment company Griffin Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) to acquire a majority stake in Polish PV installation company Hymon. 

Independent power producer Amarenco has purchased 90% stake in PV solar panel owner Infram from investment company M&G's infrastructure equity investment arm Infracapital.

The Q1 2023 edition of our downstream solar journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download, including comprehensive coverage of agrivoltaics across several markets.

Japanese annual PV market size for 2022 is estimated to be 6.5GWDC, which is about the same volume as 2021.

Last week, French PV startup Carbon announced plans for an integrated European PV manufacturing facility to produce an initial capacity of 5GW of cells and 3.5GW of modules. The company spoke to PV Tech Premium about its short and long-term plans, and why Europe needs a PV manufacturing ecosystem.

Solar inverter and solutions provider Solinteg is opening a new factory in the Chinese city of Wuxi that will add an initial 4GW of manufacturing capacity as the company aims to meet increasing demand for its products.

The European Commission has proposed to reform the EU’s electricity market design in a move to accelerate the uptake of renewables.

US residential solar installer Sunnova has secured 38MW in the recent Forward Capacity Auction 17 (FCA17) launched by ISO New England.