Power Plants

Atlantic Blue – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysian solar company Solarvest – will build Brunei’s largest national solar project through joint venture Seri Suria Power, alongside Serikandi Oilfield Services and Khazanah Satu.

Amazon plans to invest AU$20 billion to expand Australia’s data centre infrastructure, with utility-scale solar PV plants set to power these.

US renewables developer Invenergy has started construction of a 240MW solar PV plant in Franklin County, Ohio, US.

French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen Australia has confirmed that its 440MW Culcairn solar PV power plant in New South Wales has entered the commissioning phase.

Equipment-driven underperformance in PV power plants has tripled over the past five years, according to Raptor Maps.

Geronimo Power, Avangrid and DTE Energy have all reached crucial milestones at solar projects in Ohio, California and Michigan, respectively.

US independent power producer (IPP) DESRI has begun construction on a 205MW/1,000MWh solar-plus-storage project in the state of Arizona.

At this year’s Intersolar Europe event, held in Munich, Germany, Solavita launched a new hybrid inverter for the C&I sectors.

New Zealand renewables developer Lodestone Energy has started constructing its first solar PV project on the country’s South Island, with a total generation capacity of 27.7MW.

Origis Energy has secured a financing package from MUFG to support the development of a 350MW solar portfolio in the US.