France has awarded 73MW of solar ‘innovation’ capacity promoting floating solar, new forecasting software and solar greenhouses, as well as divvying out another 508MW in its large-scale PV programme.
Siemens Gamesa has won EPC contracts for 160MW of solar projects in India, consisting of 100MW from an unnamed major Indian utility and 60MW from an IPP.
TerraForm Power launches offer to acquire Saeta Yields, Schletter provides mounting systems for 35MW solar plant in China, Spanish government identifies projects from 3GW, NSP completes 2MW rooftop system in Taiwan with bifacial modules.
JSW Energy, and its subsidiary JSW Solar, are carrying out engineering works on a 4MW pilot floating solar project, with a view to setting up 250MW of similar projects in the future. Discom Mahagenco is also targeting 250MW of floating PV developments.
Tesla reported another major decline in its residential solar installations for the fourth quarter of 2017, while a supply shortage in its energy storage system ‘Powerwall’ has created a customer backlog of solar and storage installs of more than one year.
A fund of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is to acquire NRG Energy, Inc.’s US renewable energy platform businesses and its stake in NRG Yield, Inc. (NYLD) for US$1.375 billion in cash.
The deadline for developers to complete their allocations and encash bank guarantees under a 500MW residential and non-profit rooftops solar tender in India has been extended from 31 March to 30 June this year.
Asset management firm Capital Dynamics, which has just acquired the First Solar and SunPower solar yieldco firm, 8point3 Energy Partners is to own and operate a planned 1GW PV power plant in Nevada, which includes technology infrastructure firm Switch as a major customer for the renewable energy and is based in the state.
Mahindra Susten completes Rajasthan’s largest rooftop PV plant, L&T Construction bags 200MW of solar EPC orders from SB Energy and NLC India, CleanMax completes Pune rooftop for Knorr-Bremse
