Projects

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has issued a request for submission (RfS) for 500MW(ac) of solar energy, continuing attempts to reach its Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPO), after a previous tender of the same size was undersubscribed.

The 365MW UK solar portfolio owned by SunEdison yieldco TerraForm Power has been sold to Vortex, a European renewables investment platform of private equity firm EFG Hermes.

China is set to up the ante on renewables in its new ‘Five-Year Plan’ that will see a total investment of US$360 billion (RMB2.5 trillion) by 2020.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has sold two PV power plants in Ontario, Canada to subsidiaries of Concord Green Energy Inc for around US$115 million.

Indian salt producer Sambhar Salts Limited (SSL), a subsidiary of state-owned firm Hindustan salts, has invited Expressions of Intent (EOI) for the development of a 100MW solar project in the state of Rajasthan, on an EPC basis.

Despite a number of new renewable energy proposals, Maryland governor Larry Hogan has kept "expensive" wind and solar at arm's length.

Thanks to Nevada’s largest utility NV Energy, Las Vegas city government is now powered 100% by renewable energy sources.

Mexico's SENER forecasts massive solar growth, with a 20-fold increase totalling 5.4GW by the end of 2019. In Spain, the long-anticipated renewable energy auction is given a confirmation for the first quarter of this year. Over in Chile, solar energy is being used to power the Santiago metro, through SunPower's El Pelícano project.

The tax on solar self-consumption in the Balearic Islands of Spain has been doubled by a ministerial order, causing uproar from Spain’s PV industry association UNEF.

The wholly-owned subsidiary of ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar, CSI New Energy, has completed the sale of two Chinese solar plants to state-owned Shenzhen Energy for US$32.2 million.