Markets & Finance

JA Solar has signed an agreement with the Paramount Group to provide PV modules to its under-construction 150MW solar project in Bangladesh.

PV Tech Power Editors JP Casey and John Lubbock and Reporter George Heynes caught up with several experts to talk about the skills shortage in the solar industry in the UK and abroad and how this growing industry is approaching the issue.

US energy company Southern Power has acquired the 200MW Millers Branch solar farm in the US state of Texas from EDF Renewables.

US community solar company Nautilus Solar Energy has secured US$202 million for a 186MW portfolio consisting of mainly community solar projects.

PFC Consulting has launched a request for selection seeking 1.25GW of interstate transmission system-connected solar PV in India.

Enfinity Global has acquired 546MW of solar assets under development in the US state of Colorado from CS Energy.

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has secured 4GWp of solar module contracts during the RE+ event in Las Vegas.

With C&I financing more complicated than residential, tax incentives in the IRA have boosted interest from businesses to install solar.

Solar developer Lightsource bp has signed a long-term PPA with tech giant Microsoft for a 40MW solar PV plant in Poland.

LONGi has signed a letter of intent to supply what it calls “advanced modules” for a number of solar projects in Indonesia.