Americas

US solar developer Origis Energy has begun construction on a three-project strong, 550MW/150MW solar-plus-storage portfolio in Mississippi.

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies' shipments in the third quarter could drop by about 23% quarter-on-quarter to only 622MW due to a reduced shipments to a US customer and a drop in demand in the global distributed generation (DG) market.

Solar developer Leeward Renewable Energy has reached commercial operation of the Big Plain Solar 196MW solar PV plant in Ohio, US.

Sunstone Credit on its takeaways from the RE+ event and the biggest trends looking forward for the US solar industry.

French renewable power company Voltalia has sold a ready-to-build 420MW solar PV project in Brazil to energy company Newave Energia.

Southern US utility the El Paso Electric (EPE) Company has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for renewable energy projects to serve its customers in New Mexico.

sonnenConnect will deploy a time of use (TOU) algorithm which, in conjunction with a battery (which NEM 3.0 reportedly incentivises), “ensures customers will not pay peak-period pricing at any point throughout the year”, the company said.

As virtual power plants will be important in the future to help the grid, challenges around data sharing still persist.

Advanced Power has sold its under-development Oriana solar-plus-storage project in the US state of Texas to Sabanci Renewables.

Virginia-headquartered energy utility Dominion Energy has filed a proposal with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for 772MW worth of solar PV capacity in the state.