Projects

Indian state-run power firm National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) plans to build another 150MW of solar projects in partnership with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

Going to Indian courts over renegotiations of solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) can be a costly and time-consuming process, but is this where the trouble ends?

Kulachi Solar Power Project (Private) Limited is tendering for EPC services on a 50MW solar PV project near Kulachi, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province of Pakistan.

Organic farming cooperative Organic Valley has struck a deal on a community partnership that will see the company source 100% of its electricity resources from renewables by 2019, with the cooperative claiming that it is the largest food company in the world to do so.

UK-based developer Lightsource Renewable Energy has now also reached financial close on a 60MW project in the state of Maharashtra.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has finalised a US$653 million debt package for 13 solar projects at the Benban Solar Park, near Aswan in Egypt.

WElink Energy has started construction of a 221MW solar PV plant in Portugal that will not benefit from subsidies.

Enerray, though the company EB Solaire, is developing a 30MW PV project in Cameroon, with Enerray set to serve as EPC provider for the plant.

Indian railway minister Piyush Goyal has launched 5MW of rooftop solar projects at Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi, Anand Vihar and Delhi railway stations.

US-headquartered engineering and consultancy firm Black & Veatch and engineering services, and certification testing lab, Renewable Energy Test Center (RETC) in California, said they would establish the first of its kind bifacial solar module ranking service.