Power Plants

Israel-headquartered inverter provider Solaredge and the regional council of the Scania region, in southernmost Sweden, will develop a pilot agri-pv project to trial the technology in Swedish conditions.

Spanish renewables developer Enerfín has reached commercial operations at its 128MWp solar PV plant in Colombia.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has signed a PPA to supply power to retailer Alcampo from two solar PV plants with a combined capacity of 550MW.

NTPC Limited has started construction at its 630MW Barethi solar project in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Sembcorp boasts over 1.4GW of greenfield or brownfield projects in India and debuts in utility-scale solar development in Indonesia.

The top five US states for solar installation added over 18GW of new PV generation capacity in 2023 between them, in a year which saw solar account for 53% of all US electricity capacity additions.

Equinor, Scatec and Hydro Rein have started commercial operations at their 531MW Mendubim solar project in Brazil.

Finnish investor Korkia and solar developer Global Consulting Energy have formed a development company to build up to 1GW solar PV portfolio in Italy.

PV Tech spoke with QW Solar's chairwoman about heterojunction technology, capacity planning, market strategy and annual targets.

Solar PV capacity was the most awarded renewables through government tenders last year, accounting for 44% of the total volume with 61GW.