Power Plants

India’s Reliance Power has successfully connected the world’s largest concentrated solar project (CSP) with compact linear fresnel reflector (CLFR) technology to the grid in India’s Jaisalmer District of Rajasthan, according to the company.

Allianz Capital Partners’ Renewable Energy Fund has acquired two ground mount solar parks in Germany.

Labor refused to scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET), and has now left negotiations to have the policy slashed.

Jasper, at 96MWp the largest PV power plant in South Africa, has been completed.

Vivint Solar, the newly floated US residential PV installer, has forecast a decrease in deployments in the final quarter of the year, blaming the prospect of harsh winter weather conditions.

The chief technology officer of Indian manufacturer and installer, Tata Power Solar, has said commercial rooftop solar will reach grid parity before any other solar segment in India, and will be the cheapest form of energy for customers by 2024.

US energy giant Dominion has added another 50MW to its solar portfolio with the purchase of its first project in Utah.

France connected 286.3MW of new PV systems in the third quarter of this year, according to the country’s solar association, Enerplan.

Japan’s renewable energy policy could see a drastic overhaul next year, with a possibility the Asian country could choose a scheme similar to the UK’s contracts for difference (CfDs), according to one advocacy group.

The impact of a solar eclipse on European power grids will be negligible despite warnings of blackouts by the chief of the French network as a consequence of the amount of PV now on the system.