Power Plants

Independent power producer (IPP) Aquila Clean Energy has connected 210MW of solar PV across five projects in Spain.

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has issued a tender seeking advisory services for a co-located 1.6GW solar PV/1GW BESS project.

Cormac Gilligan of S&P Global said macro market forces have combined with technology shifts to impact the fortunes of inverter producers.

An ageing 545MW wind farm in Egypt is to be reborn as a 3GW PV and wind hybrid facility under a provisional repowering plan agreed last week.

Rooftop solar PV in South Australia broke the 100% grid demand contribution on Sunday afternoon, peaking at 107.5%.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided AU$1.7 million in funding to explore the integration of consumer energy resources (CERs) into the NEM.

Whitehaven Energy, a subsidiary of coal producer Whitehaven Coal, is seeking Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act approval to power one of its mines via a 26MW solar-plus-storage project in Australia.

OneEnergy has signed an asset transfer agreement with three Wisconsin companies that will see the developer build a 165MW solar portfolio.

Indian developer Tata Power Renewable Energy has commissioned a 126MW floating solar (FPV) plant in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

China’s CHN Energy has grid connected the Mengxi Blue Ocean PV Power Plant Project, at 3GW the country’s largest single-site PV power plant.