ACWA Power has reached financial close on three solar PV projects under round two of Egypt Feed-in-Tariff program II – with the three installations boasting a generation capacity of 165.5MW.
Cypress Creek EPC, the construction arm of American solar developer Cypress Creek Renewables, has reached a major construction milestone of 1GW of solar developed over the last 18 months.
Florida Power & Light Company has opened four new PV projects in Florida with a combined generation capacity of 298MW while also closing down one of the state’s largest coal-fired plants.
Adding energy storage gives solar developers and the industry in general the ability to “keep going”, while offering both lithium and flow battery systems covers a “wide-range of use cases”, NEXTracker CEO Dan Shugar has said.
Australia has installed 1,778,687 rooftop PV systems, totalling just more than 6.29GW in capacity, as of 1 December 2017, according to new data from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER).
Saudi Arabia’s omittance of the lowest ever solar bid from the final shortlist of its 300MW solar tender may have been a measure to restore investor confidence in the future of the market, according to a representative of global analyst firm GTM Research.
Finnish finance company FinnFund has provided US$15 million in financing to fund the construction of 10 PV projects in El Salvador, which will have a combined generation capacity of 100MW.
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has issued a Request for Qualification (RfP) document for 275MW of grid-connected solar in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
