Conquest Asset Management announced Wednesday that it has reached a final agreement with Solairedirect, a subsidiary of Engie, to acquire a portfolio of six PV projects in France.
Mississippi utility Cooperative Energy and Origis Energy USA announced Tuesday that they have started construction on a 52MW PV power plant, which will provide renewable energy to the utility’s 423,000 members across Mississippi.
The Indian city of Varanasi, famed for its burning ghats along the banks of the River Ganges, has the potential for 676MW of rooftop solar installations by using just 8.3% of available roof space, according to a report from the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED).
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has entered the US into a new realm of solar at below 3 cents/kWh, after similar prices have been regularly achieved in other countries such as Dubai, Chile and Mexico for over a year now.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Hanwha Q CELLS said it had become eligible to participate in solar tenders in France after Certisolis had certified its PV modules had met low carbon footprint metrics and fulfilled all criteria for CRE3 and CRE4 tenders in the country.
Spanish IPP Alten Energías Renovables has won the tender issued by NamPower, Namibia's state electricity company, to develop, construct and operate what will be the largest PV project in Namibia and Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa.
Total Solar, a PV-based subsidiary of global energy producer Total, announced Tuesday that it has started construction on its second solar power project in Japan.
SMA inverters have been installed to help power up 3MW of solar in Mexico as part of a rebuilding phase for the Aura Solar I project in La Paz, Baja California.
