The Senate committee examining a house bill granting a PV mini-grid franchise to renewable energy firm Solar Phillippines has been debating the reach of the franchise as well as its exclusivity, with the discussion to reconvene in May after the general election.
Harmony Gold confirms discussions to build 30MW project at Welkom as analysts probe for response to price hikes and financial woes of public utility Eskom.
India's total solar PV deployment hit 25.21GW by the end of last year, according to figures supplied to parliament by the minister for new and renewable energy and power, R.K. Singh.
Both major parties in the election race for the Australian state of New South Wales have put forward plans focusing on solar and storage for households, with some mixed but mostly positive reaction from the industry.
A 100MWh battery energy storage system has been integrated with 400MW of wind energy, 200MW of PV and 50MW of concentrated PV (CPV) in a huge demonstration project in China.
India has approved a 12GW solar scheme for central public sector undertakings (CPSUs), which are state-owned enterprises, and it includes a requirement to source cells and modules locally.
Solaria bags financing for 250MW of renewables in Spain, Tata Power Solar launches rooftop solution in Cochin and Chennai, FRV provides solar to schools in Sierra Leone.
Eni Australia, a subsidiary of Italian oil and gas firm Eni, which has been active in Australia since 2000, has acquired a 33.7MW construction-ready solar-plus-storage project in the Northern Territory of Australia, from Katherine Solar, a joint venture between Australia’s Epuron and the UK-based Island Green Power.
