Power Plants

Australia’s rooftop and grid-scale solar contributed to the majority of the total electricity supply in the national electricity market on 17 September, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

TrinaTracker has signed a supply agreement with the Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) for the 108MW Tepuy solar PV park in Colombia.

Swedish solar company Alight has expanded to the Finnish market by constructing a new solar PV project with a capacity of more than 100MW.

Nexun, a portfolio company of infrastructure investor Marguerite, has signed a co-development agreement with an unnamed Polish developer for 206MW of solar PV.

The Israeli government has published a tender seeking bids for a 100MW solar PV project to be built near the Ashalim settlement, a solar power hub in the country.

Fraunhofer ISE has developed a perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell, which boasts a conversion efficiency of “over 30%”.

Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has announced that it is receiving an Expression of Interest (EOI) from companies to develop a 1.5GWdc solar PV project located in the Al Khazna area of Abu Dhabi.

Ørsted and Terra Solar have agreed to develop a new 400MW portfolio of solar power projects in Ireland, to come online by 2030.

Scout Clean Energy has signed a power purchase agreement with household product manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive.

Solar inverter producer SolarEdge has unveiled a new PV energy optimisation software system aimed at business owners and the corporate & industrial (C&I) solar sector.