Indian power minister R.K. Singh has chaired a meeting with battery-based energy storage manufacturers calling on them to set up manufacturing units in India.
Renewable energy developer Infinergy Pacific, a subsidiary of UK-based firm Infinergy, has sold the 120MW Metz Solar Farm in New South Wales to unnamed clean energy investors.
Indian state-run power firm National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has completed a 50MW solar PV project in the state of Tamil Nadu, according to a Bombay Stock Exchange filing.
India-based solar independent power producer Azure Power has secured new project wins with Indian Railways and Karnataka Renewable Energy Development totalling 130MW.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a US$260 million loan to the Government of Pakistan to improve the country’s power transmission network and help offtake of power from new and renewable energy power projects.
Tech giant Microsoft is to purchase power from 315MW of a 500MW solar project in Virginia, which represents the single largest corporate purchase of solar energy ever in the US, the company claimed.
Major PV module materials and N-type mono IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) bifacial module manufacturer Jolywood has signed a partnership agreement with Adelaide-headquartered solar company Golden Invest to develop 100MW of PV projects in Australia using N-type bifacial solar cells.
Tesla and Fluence are to supply Victoria’s first two large-scale, grid-connected energy storage batteries, one of which will be connected to an existing solar farm.
