Power Plants

Utility Enel has signed a 15-year solar virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with bearing manufacturer SKF in Spain.

Chinese electronics developer Hoymiles has unveiled its latest microinverter series, the HMS-1000W, designed for domestic environments.

Grounding issues and damaged modules are the most common safety problems among rooftop solar projects, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Part-2 of this article will discuss how recycling solar PV will reach landfill parity, the company’s global ambition and how PV recycling will have to work towards avoiding dumping panels illegally in less developed countries.

Finnish energy company Ilmatar has plans to develop a 350MWp solar PV project in Grums, central Sweden and two other projects in Finland.

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund has announced that the 40MW Kesses solar project in Kenya has started operations.

Finnish utility Fortum has begun development on an 80MW solar PV plant in Finland’s Virolahti municipality in the Southeast of the country bordering Russia. It will be Fortum’s first solar PV project in its home country.

Spanish solar tracker provider PV Hardware (PVH) has signed a supply agreement with Larsen & Toubro for 2.97GWp of PV trackers.

Alight plans to build a 64MW solar farm in Sweden, which will be the solar facility with the country's largest capacity upon its completion.

Climate insurance provider kWh Analytics has published a report detailing the three types of risk that solar developers could face, including extreme weather, financial modelling and operations.