Projects

India’s state-owned company National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha to develop at least 1GW of renewable energy across the Odisha state, in India.

US community solar owner-operator Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) and Japanese energy firm Osaka Gas USA (OGUSA) have expanded their partnership to construct, own and operate more than 100MW of solar PV in Virginia, the US.

Italian utility Enel Group’s subsidiary Enel X has secured a tender to build a 22MW PV system at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, claiming to be the largest self-consumption PV system at an airport in Europe.

The National Energy Administration of China has unveiled that the country's newly added PV capacity in the first five months of 2023 was 61.2GW.

US utility Duke Energy will purchase 199MW of solar power under a 20-year agreement with renewables developer Ranger Power in Indiana.

Utility Enel has signed a 15-year solar virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with bearing manufacturer SKF in Spain.

Grounding issues and damaged modules are the most common safety problems among rooftop solar projects, according to Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Finnish energy company Ilmatar has plans to develop a 350MWp solar PV project in Grums, central Sweden and two other projects in Finland.

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund has announced that the 40MW Kesses solar project in Kenya has started operations.

Finnish utility Fortum has begun development on an 80MW solar PV plant in Finland’s Virolahti municipality in the Southeast of the country bordering Russia. It will be Fortum’s first solar PV project in its home country.