Canadian Solar has won three solar power contracts with Alberta’s Ministry of Infrastructure for a 94MW PV portfolio in southeast Alberta, Canada. The projects hold an average contracted PPA price of US$36.27 per MWh.
After China connected a huge battery to a project combining solar, wind and other generation sources, a US utility project has just been announced which will likewise combine solar and wind with a grid-scale battery.
Firm hails “breakthrough moment” as it bags contract from state's ISO for ordinary households to help network meet peaking capacity.
The largest solar panel rooftop installation in the Baltic States recently started operations atop the RETAL factory in Lentvaris, around 10 kilometres from the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The installation has a total generation capacity of 1.4MW.
California-based E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation (E&B) is investing in PV energy in order to help run its oil production facilities in both Santa Barbara and Kern counties.
Germany and Spain to catch up the fastest amid boom set to multiply solar generation by 60 between 2015 and 2050, McKinsey finds.
Invenergy is taking steps toward developing a 180MW PV project located in Caledonia, a town in Western New York.
US solar development company 7X Energy has sold the 100MW Lapetus Solar Energy Project in Andrews County, Texas to Duke Energy Renewables.
Integrated PV module manufacturer REC Group has said it invested US$150 million in developing and rolling out into volume production a new N-type monocrystalline-based heterojunction (HJ) cell that will use Meyer Burgers ‘SmartWire’ (SWCT) cell connection technology.
US-headquartered high-efficiency solar panel manufacturer SunPower Corp has started ramping production at its first volume manufacturing plant in Oregon, USA.
‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has surprised with an upwardly revised PV module shipment forecast for the fourth quarter of 2018.
Illinois State Representative Will Davis has announced the “Path to 100 Act”, which will introduce new legislation that would bring the state to a 100% clean energy mix.
Penn State University, one of the largest and most prestigious research universities in the US, is set to generate 25% of its state-wide electricity requirements for a 25-year term by way of PV energy after signing off on a new development agreement with Lightsource BP.
Belectric has been named as the long-term service provider for the preventive and corrective maintenance of a 53.5MW PV pipeline in the US.
ROTH Capital Partners has become increasingly bullish on a strong rebound in global solar demand in 2019, led by competitive pricing dynamics with other energy sources and increasing optimism that China will provide good subsidy support for solar in 2019 and onwards.
