Projects

SolarPower Europe – the representative trade body for the European solar industry – has published its first Best Practice Guidelines document for the floating solar (FPV) market segment.

Masdar plans to develop a number of new renewables projects in Africa, including 300MW of new solar capacity in Angola and Uganda.

Mosselbanken, the project in question, marks the first entry for Voltalia in the Dutch market as a power producer.

Trina Solar has announced that it will supply 88MW of n-type i-TOPCon modules to a 200MW solar plus storage plant in China.

Developer ib vogt has signed a multi-buyer virtual power purchase agreement for its 174MW Serbal solar project in Spain.

Cable-pooling was a hot-topic at this year’s Large Scale Solar Central Eastern Europe conference (14-15 November 2023), with the new amendment discussed on multiple panels as the Polish energy sector expressed their excitement for the opportunities it would offer solar.

The cost of solar power generation dropped from US$417 per MWh in 2010 to US$49 per MWh in 2022, representing a 88% decrease.

London-headquartered renewable energy financier Cubico Sustainable Investments has started operations of its 135MW solar PV plant in the state of Mississippi, US.

Hail claims have averaged nearly US$58.4 million per claim, according to a report from renewable energy project underwriter GCube Insurance.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has allocated €85 million (US$91 million) to develop 51 renewable energy generation and storage projects on the Canary Islands.