Projects

European Energy has secured approval for its 1.1GW Upper Calliope solar project in Queensland near Gladstone, Australia. 

Emmvee, through its subsidiary Emmvee Energy, has begun operations at its 2.5GW solar module manufacturing plant in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Tracker producer Nextracker has rebranded as Nextpower to reflect the wider portfolio of products and services it now offers.

Altus Power has acquired a 234MW solar portfolio from independent power producer Greenbacker. 

The US House of Representatives has passed a permitting reform bill reducing the environmental scrutiny on large energy projects.

Wang Bohua, honorary chairman of the China PV Industry Association (CPIA), said that the polysilicon production in China experienced its first year-on-year decline since 2013, while wafer production registered its first year-on-year decline since 2009.

'The UK market has matured,' Guy Lavarack, chief investment officer at the Luminous Energy Group, tells PV Tech Premium this week.

French renewables company Voltalia has started site preparation works on a 43MW/135MWh solar-plus-storage project in French Guiana, a French overseas territory in South America.

UAE-based renewables developer AMEA Power has commissioned a 120MW solar PV plant in the central Tunisian governorate of Kairouan, the country’s largest operational PV project.

If we imagine the development of PV industry in terms of scale and quality on a single curve, its trajectory has clearly been moving upward.