Projects

Renewables developer European Energy is to build a 65MW solar PV farm in the municipality of Anyksciai, Lithuania.

Spanish developer TSK has been selected by US utility AES to develop 180MW of solar PV plants in the Dominican Republic.

EDP Renewables plans to begin commercial operations at a new 45MW solar project in Poland using existing renewable grid infrastructure.

This week, Microsoft, Clearloop, Greenbacker and SolarBank have made notable investments into small-scale and community solar projects.

Although the floating solar market is expanding, the top 10 countries that will have more than 500MW of cumulative floating solar installations by 2031 are entirely from Asia.

RWE has started construction at a new solar PV project at its Hambach lignite mine, which will have a capacity of 8.4MWac.

US utility Avangrid – a subsidiary of energy multinational Iberdrola – will build its first solar PV project in California, building on the back of an existing wind farm fleet of over 500MW in the state.

Q2 2023 was one of the lowest periods for financial commitments to future renewable energy generation projects in Australia since 2017, according to trade body the Clean Energy Council (CEC).

Continuing a downward trend of capacity additions, India has added 1.7GW of solar capacity in the second quarter of 2023, according to consultancy Mercom India Research.

Indian module manufacturer Navitas Solar has announced a plan to set up a 1.2GW solar module assembly plant in the US.