San Diego, California-based residential solar company OneRoof Energy has entered into an agreement to sell its residential solar assets to Greenbacker Residential Solar for US$8 million in cash.
France has awarded contracts to 79 projects in the first 500MW tender of its 3GW large-scale programme, as well as announcing tender programmes for 450MW of self-consumption renewable energy systems and 210MW of 'solar innovations' including solar roads.
Egyptian renewable energy provider Infinity Solar and Germany’s ib vogt and Solizer have reached financial close on a 64.1MW solar PV plant under round one of Egypt’s Feed-in Tariff (FiT) programme.
Solar project developer ReneSola announced its updated outlook for its solar portfolio in 2017 — noting that it currently has 335MW of projects that are currently under construction, with 550MW worth of total generation capacity planned for this year.
Europe added 6.7GW of solar last year with demand decreasing by more than 21% from the prior year, according to the latest data from SolarPower Europe.
Big energy utilities such as Eon and innogy are “changing the appearance” of the European solar market as they wade into the sector, a panel of industry leaders has concluded.
Last week the EU’s Africa Renewable Energy Initiative announced 14 new renewable energy projects across the continent, representing 1.7GW, with a total potential investment of almost €4 billion.
