Power Plants

JUWI Renewable Energies has announced plans to build three new solar projects, with a combined capacity of 340MW, in South Africa.

Sunsure Energy has signed a power purchase agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India for a 450MWp project in state of Rajasthan.

Tosyali Holding has signed agreements to develop the first phase of a 1.2GW solar power plant to power its operations in Turkey.

Enfinity Global said the power from the sites is “earmarked to cater to government utilities, as well as C&I customers.”

Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, has called on the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to increase funding for community electrification initiatives involving solar PV and batteries.

TotalEnergies has submitted its 320MW Middlebrook solar-plus-storage project in New South Wales, Australia, to the government’s EPBC Act.

Off-grid solar is helping provide power to those most in need, but new ideas are needed to plug the sector’s multi-billion funding gap.

Solar PV accounted for almost all of the new US electricity generation capacity added from January through November.

Lightsource bp, the solar power development arm of oil and gas major bp, has commissioned the 187MW Peacock solar project in Texas.

Slovakian software provider Solargis has launched Evaluate 2.0, the second generation of its 3D PV power plant designer.