Power Plants

Registrations for tender 4 of Australia’s CIS opened on 28 November, seeking 6GW of renewable energy capacity in the NEM.

Technical consulting firm Enertis Applus+ has launched its mobile laboratory for on-site tests of solar PV modules in the Australian market.

India installed around 13.2GW of new utility-scale solar capacity from January through September this year, a roughly 161% increase.

Sonnedix has commissioned its 150MW Betierra solar portfolio in Spain, bringing its total renewable capacity in the country to over 1GW.

Spanish inverter manufacturer Ingeteam and PV automation solutions company Quantified Energy Labs (QE-Labs) have performed a drone electroluminescence (EL) inspection on a PV plant.

Chinese solar module manufacturer JinkoSolar has submitted plans for a 600MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, to the federal government.

The Australian government has commenced a review of the National Electricity Market (NEM) to identify how it will operate in the coming decades and facilitate the uptake of solar PV.

A more “intelligent” grid in Eastern Europe would be of benefit for the region, according to speakers at Solar Media’s LSSCEE.

Shanghai Electric has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build the 2GW Al-Sadawi PV project in Saudi Arabia.

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has forecasted that the US is set to add 32GW of utility-scale solar PV capacity in 2024.