Power Plants

Despite having the ideal attributes to become a clean energy superpower, Australia has never quite lived up to its potential. Will Norman assesses the barriers and asks whether recent investment announcements could turn the tide.

Wind energy supplied 25% of the consumption in Portugal, followed by hydropower (23%), solar PV (7%), and biomass (6%).

Indian independent power producer (IPP) KPI Green Energy has signed a supply agreement for 300MW of bifacial mono-PERC modules from PV manufacturer Emmvee.

US energy company Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and WEC Energy Group's subsidiary We Energies have started operating a 300MW solar PV plant in Wisconsin, the US.

US climate investment firm HASI has invested an undisclosed sum into a 605MW solar and solar-plus-storage portfolio owned by US utility AES Corporation.

Solar PV projects’ operations and maintenance (O&M) are often overlooked during the development stage, according to Chris Stacy, director of business development at BayWa r.e. in the US.

BayWa r.e. speaks with PV Tech Premium on the use of satellite data and sheep grazing in the O&M stage to help save cost on a PV project.

The government of Kuwait has launched tenders for 1.1GW of solar projects, to be installed at its Al Shagaya Renewable Energy facility.

Spanish oil major Repsol has started producing electricity on its 204MW solar PV project Sigma in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.

Solar Module Super League member (SMSL) JA Solar has shipped 240MW of n-type modules to a solar PV project in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan.