Power Plants

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has inaugurated the 900MW fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the UAE.

PV tracker supplier Nextracker has signed an agreement with solar developer Atlas Renewable Energy to implement its tracker control system at a 902MWp solar plant in Brazil.

Ember has published a report into grid connectivity in Europe, calling on transmission system operators to build grid infrastructure faster.

Mounting system manufacturer Schletter has unveiled its latest agrivoltaics product at Intersolar Europe 2023 in Munich, Germany.

As Asia continues to be the key driver for floating solar, in Europe the Netherlands are the ones pushing forward in terms of offshore solar.

Finnish environmental and industrial measurement firm Vaisala has launched a weather station to help enhance the performance of solar power plants, which is showcased at InerSolar 2023.

PV Tech Premium talks to Solarcycle’s co-founders about their company’s unique ability to extract every single constituent material out of an end-of-life PV module, how solar panels are not lasting as long as people expected, the race to prevent solar waste being illegally dumped across the globe, and how modules can have a useful second life.

Chinese ambassador to South Africa Chen Xiaodong has offered to provide the South African grid with 66GW of solar infrastructure.

2022 saw the solar PV market enter a ‘new growth dimension’, where 239GW of solar capacity was added across the world representing two thirds of all new renewables capacity.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores how Eastern and Southern European countries have emerged in the race as key players for the European Union to reach 740GW of solar capacity installed by 2030.