Power Plants

EDF Renewables has commissioned five solar PV projects in Israel with a combined capacity of 101MW, including four projects with what is said to be the lowest-ever tariff agreed in Israel.

Canadian Solar and Denmark’s Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) have finalised a transaction that will see PKA acquire a large stake in a pair of solar plants in California.

Allianz Capital Partners has closed on an deal that will see the company acquire the 46MW Ourika project in Portugal. The installation is fully operational and was developed by the WElink Group.

Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Corporation Limited (GVSCCL) has inaugurated a 2MW grid-connected floating solar power project on the Mudasarlova reservoir in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

South Korean state-utility Korea East-West Power Co. (EWP) has completed a 3.5MW floating solar project at a coal-fired power plant.

Enel Green Power España has started construction on three PV projects with an overall capacity of 127MW in the municipality of Logrosán, near Cáceres in Spain.

Tesla expects solar installations in 2018 to have peaked in the third quarter after reporting total installs of 93MW in the reporting period.

A new technical report carried out by Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3) and sponsored by leading CdTe thin-film manufacturer First Solar, attempts to dispel the assumption that high levels of solar and wind electricity on electricity grids cause grid instability.

Major China-based PV manufacturer Risen Energy has secured its third recent PV power plant project in Vietnam, bringing its tally to over 160MW.

Leading CdTe thin-film module manufacturer First Solar is building a 58MW (AC) PV power plant using its next-generation large-area Series 6 modules and single-axis trackers for Facebook’s Prineville Data Center located in Oregon.