Projects

Earlier this month California-based solar manufacturer Auxin Solar announced that it was suing the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and Customs & Border Patrol over unclaimed payments from the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs.

UK BESS developer Harmony Energy has established a joint venture with New Zealand energy group Clarus' subsidiary First Renewables to develop a 200MWac solar project.

Grenergy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the fourth phase of its Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage project in Chile.

Ecoener has announced a plan to build a 350MW renewables portfolio in Greece, which includes a 50MW solar PV plant.

Alantra – a renewables asset manager – and solar developer Solarig have secured €213 million (US$232 million) to support the construction of seven solar PV projects with a total 306MWp of generation capacity.

A partnership led by Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI) alongside the Ocean Man First Nation community – Iyuhána Solar – has been awarded a contract by regional Canadian utility SaskPower to build and operate a 100MW solar PV facility

Aside from the immediate, visible damage, extreme weather events have a longer lasting impact on PV systems. NREL’s Dirk C. Jordan, Kirsten Perry, Robert White, Josh Parker, Byron McDanold and Chris Deline report on research revealing the long-term consequences of hail, wind and other weather phenomena on PV production.

Silicon Ranch initiates site acquisition and interconnection processes for owned and operated utility-scale solar and battery projects with a capacity of over 500MW

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has given approval to Green Infra Wind Energy to build a 450MW hybrid solar-plus-wind project.

Electricity generation from low-emission sources such as solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear will cover all global demand growth to 2026.