Projects

Spanish developer Dhamma Energy will build an 87.5MW solar farm on the site of a former NATO airbase.

Hawaii has been a prolific installer of both rooftop solar and latterly batteries for energy storage and one of the US state’s smaller islands looks set to get its first ever grid-scale solar-plus-storage system.

Lightsource BP has acquired six solar power assets totalling 135MW of capacity in Pennsylvania and Maryland from Orion Renewable Energy Group.

According to a revised forecast, GTM Research has tagged China as the key metric behind a slowdown in global solar deployments in 2018.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has blocked the US$232 million investment by Shenzhen Energy in three projects owned by Recurrent.

Swedish retail giant IKEA will open the doors to its first store in India on Thursday and it is in the commissioning phase of an 800kWp rooftop solar plant to go with it.

Elon Musk has confirmed that he wants to take Tesla private as board-level discussions commence.

US solar developer Cypress Creek Renewables has received a US$200 million investment from the Singapore-based firm Temasek.

Module prices in India will remain 14% lower than eight months ago even after the imposition of a 25% safeguard duty on imports, according to analysis by IHS Markit.

France-based floating solar specialist Ciel & Terre has launched a new subsidiary in the Indian city of Bangalore, a new manufacturing line in Maharashtra, and is set to deliver floats to its first 5MW project in West Bengal.