Projects

Emirati state-owned renewable energy project developer Masdar has entered the Philippines market with plans to develop 1GW of solar PV, wind and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Australia’s Energy Corporation of New South Wales (EnergyCo) has formally increased the amount of renewable energy generation and energy storage projects that can connect to the Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) to 7.7GW.

The agreement will support the construction of six PV plants, with a combined capacity of 724MW, which will be sited to support Google’s data centre operations.

These programmes are Empowering Rural America and Powering Affordable Clean Energy, with investments in rural communities across 30 US states.

Sacramento Drilling specialises in piling and foundation drilling for solar projects, which allows steel racking to be installed in the ground.

New Zealand solar PV developer Lodestone Energy has energised its largest solar power plant to date: the 42MW Te Herenga o Te Rā site in the Bay of Plenty, a large bight on New Zealand’s northern island.

Savion has commissioned its Martin County Solar Project (MCSP) in the US state of Kentucky, its first to be built on a reclaimed coal mine.

Spanish solar PV developer X-Elio has submitted a 720MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, to the Federal government for approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Despite the attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure and the ongoing war with Russia, Vladyslav Sokolovskyi, chairman of the board of the SEAU, said the figures were “positive”.

This could be a sign of a “healthy, competitive marketplace" according to research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.