Power Plants

Vietnam has planned to buy excess electricity generated by residential and commercial rooftop solar modules.

US energy project developer Avangrid has begun to produce power from the 321MWdc/238MWac True North solar project in Falls County, Texas.

The foundations of a solar project offer multiple opportunities for driving down system costs. Arash Yazdani of PRI Engineering describes some of the key steps involved in investigating the specific conditions of a project site and developing a foundation design that will stand the test of time.

North America is expected to be the major market for solar trackers in the upcoming years driven by increased installations in the US.

French renewable energy firm GreenYellow has signed an agreement with supermarket giant Carrefour to install over 350MW of solar canopies above the latter’s car parks across France.

US developer Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has secured US$1.25 billion in construction warehouse facility to support the construction of its portfolio in the US.

Spanish independent power producer BNZ has appointed renewables asset manager Exus Renewables as asset manager for a 350MW solar portfolio in Spain.

Sun Cable has obtained its principal environmental approval its Australia-Asia PowerLink interconnector, set to unlock 20GW of solar.

Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has been nominated by the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) to be the solar module and product listing body under the small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES).

The French government has awarded 179MW of solar PV in its most recent rooftop solar PV tender, half of the previous auction.