Projects

Solar PV developer 8minutenergy Renewables said it had started operations in Texas to develop and acquire over 2GW of utility-scale PV power plant projects in the state.

Industrial technology firm ABB is restructuring its multiple market divisions into four core divisions with its solar energy offerings including PV inverters joining its Electrification Products segment from its existing Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division.

Renewables firm SunEdison currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings confirmed in a statement that it was in talks with its two publically listed yieldco subsidiaries to sell its ownership interest and other rights in the yieldcos.

Wind and solar bids were as low as US$49MWh and US$59MWh respectively, according to the first analysis of Argentina’s 1GW renewable energy tender.

Five Indian states have put in proposals to replace a total of 1,067MW of conventional power plants with solar energy for irrigation purposes.

There is a need for a pan-European investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, to give the solar industry a unified legal body to help it fight retroactive cuts and other policy U-turns across the continent, according to a European trade group.

While Europe's solar industry gathered in Brussels to celebrate 100GW of PV deployments, the future grid policy for renewables was under scrutiny.

The US Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has highlighted continued PV system cost reductions in its latest quarterly report, ‘US Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2016’.

CleanFund provides US$10 million in PACE financing for a 5MW Cali project, India's Hero Future Energies commissions a 1MW rooftop solar project in Delhi and GameChange Solar deploys ground mount systems in Massachusetts landfills.

India’s largest utility NTPC has invited bids for the development of 250MW of solar capacity in the Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka.