Projects

In total, 540 projects were awarded capacity in a tender that ended up oversubscribed with more than 1.7GW capacity tendered and 643 bids.

Tasmania's first utility-scale solar PV project, the 288MW Northern Midlands Solar Farm, is set to be developed after the signing of an offtake agreement with state-owned utility Hydro Tasmania.

Registrations for tender 4 of Australia’s CIS opened on 28 November, seeking 6GW of renewable energy capacity in the NEM.

India installed around 13.2GW of new utility-scale solar capacity from January through September this year, a roughly 161% increase.

Sonnedix has commissioned its 150MW Betierra solar portfolio in Spain, bringing its total renewable capacity in the country to over 1GW.

Chinese solar module manufacturer JinkoSolar has submitted plans for a 600MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, to the federal government.

Shanghai Electric has won the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build the 2GW Al-Sadawi PV project in Saudi Arabia.

The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has forecasted that the US is set to add 32GW of utility-scale solar PV capacity in 2024.

Estonian independent power producer (IPP) Sunly has started construction of a 244MW solar PV plant in its home country.

Getting projects to the 'ready-to-bank' stage is a key challenge for Eastern Europe’s energy transition, according to speakers at LSSCEE 2024.