Power Plants

PV Talk: BayWa r.e.’s Tomaso Charlemont tells JP Casey why revamping and repowering PV power plants is emerging as a separate discipline within the PV industry and one poised for explosive growth.

The New Zealand government has presented the Fast Track Approval Bill, which includes ten solar PV projects that will receive a boost in their development.

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has opened a new consultation today (10 October) exploring the use of smart data to optimise consumer energy resources (CERs) such as solar PV and batteries.

This is the first operational renewable project for the IPP in the US, and is part of a 1.8GW development portfolio in the country.

BayWa r.e. has completed the construction of a 200MW solar project in Nevada, US, alongside a 54.1MW project in Lazio, Italy.

To date, two 700MW high-voltage cables between Morocco and Spain are the only interconnections between the two continents.

Oil and gas explorer Pilot Energy announced today (9 October) that it received a non-binding offer from renewable energy developer EDP Renewables APAC to take full ownership of the 376MW Three Springs solar PV power plant in Western Australia.

The Australian government has granted development approval for Lightsource bp’s proposed 450MW Goulburn River Solar Farm in New South Wales.

Investment in off-grid solar will be essential to provide electricity to 398 million people who are expected to be in energy poverty by 2030.

Grid reform expert Tyler Norris talks to PV Tech about whether the rest of the US can follow ERCOT’s example in the quest to ease bottlenecks.