Power Plants

Vesper sets a date to commission its Hornet Solar project, and Lightsource bp and Innergex commission projects in Louisana and Hawaii.

HDRE and ZEN Energy have secured a 795MW greenfield solar PV and energy storage portfolio spanning four projects in Australia.

Adding energy storage to PV projects offers significant opportunities for futureproofing investments and enhancing grid stability, writes Gabriele Buccini, head of utility storage for Europe at Trinasolar.

Qair has inked PPAs with Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG) for 298MW of solar PV.

The world added 451.9GW of new solar capacity in 2024, accounting for three-quarters of all new renewable power capacity commissioned last year.

Speakers at LSSEU in Lisbon said that underperformance is a "massive" problem in the PV industry, which can be solved with "good data".

Providing transparent data on grid capacity and connection requests has become “critical” to identifying bottlenecks as grid congestion becomes an increasing impediment to new renewable energy projects.

PV Talk: Ben Hertz-Shargel, global head of grid edge at Wood Mackenzie, discusses the challenges of meeting huge growth in power demand from the tech sector and the measures being adopted to tackle the issue.

European Energy has inaugurated a 58MW solar PV plant and started construction of its second project, a 106MW solar park, in Victoria.

Meridian Energy will begin construction of its 120MW Ruakākā Solar Farm in Tai Tokerau Northland, New Zealand, in August 2025.