Americas

US community solar developer Summit Ridge Energy has selected Castillo Engineering to provide design and engineering services on an 82MW portfolio of projects in Illinois, US.

The Connecticut Green Bank has more than doubled its support for commercial-scale solar, and will now commit US$110 million to new facilities.

James Elsworth of the NREL in the US looks at some of the engineering methods for bolstering PV infrastructure resilience in the face of ever increasing climatic and environmental threats.

Enphase Energy has published its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023, which includes quarterly revenues of US$302.5 million.

Tyr Energy Development Renewables (TED), a US-based renewable energy subsidiary of Japanese “sogo shosha” trading company Itochu corporation, has completed development of 333MW worth of solar PV in the US.

Solar developer Recurrent Energy has secured US$160 million in project financing for its 127MW PV project in Louisiana, US.

The first US$10 billion close of this second fund includes a seed portfolio of an unnamed UK onshore renewables developer and a solar development partnership in India.

Brookfield Renewable has published its financial results for the quarter ended 31 December 2023, headlined by net profits of US$35 million.

LevelTen Energy has reported an increase in the value of solar PPAs signed in North America, and a slight decrease for those signed in Europe.

"Compliance requirements and regulations are a specific set of information that most of the developers don’t want to go and build that expertise internally.”