ESCO Pacific and Elliott Advisers have reached financial close on both the 98MW Susan River Solar Farm and 75MW Childers Solar Farm — both located in South East Queensland, Australia.
Independent power producer Sonnedix has acquired 11 PV plants in Italy totalling 6.75MW, taking the firm’s portfolio in the country up to 114MW of operating PV generation capacity.
Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited has issued a Request for Selection (RfS) for 2GW of inter-state transmission system (ISTS)- connected solar projects across India.
Steps taken in California to enable energy storage systems to provide multiple services and to ‘stack revenues’ are “an essential starting point” for the industry, the head of California’s Energy Storage Alliance (CESA) has said.
Taiwan-based market research firm, EnergyTrend expects Chinese end-market demand to contract slightly in 2018, after posting record installations for several years in a row and accounting for around 50% of global solar installations in 2017.
Gharo Solar (GSPL) has applied for a generation licence for a 50.1MW solar PV project in the Sindh Province of Pakistan, according to National Electric Power Authority (NEPRA).
Jenner Renewables, an IPP focused on renewable projects in Latin America, has reached financial close on a portfolio of 12 solar projects in Chile totaling 146MW.
PV Tech caught up with Ugo Salerno, chairman and CEO of Italy-based advisory RINA, alongside the firm’s technical director for power and renewables, Simon Turner, to discuss storage retrofits in the UK, financing floating PV and upgrading hastily built European solar plants.
