Americas

Panama has become very attractive to investors due to the government deploying a range of fiscal incentives to support PV.

Renewable energy investment fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) launched its second Growth Markets Fund (GMF) this week (4th December), seeking US$3 billion in financing for renewable energy generation.

US renewable developer energyRe has raised US$1.2 billion for a number of projects, including solar-plus-storage and transmission work.

DEPCOM Power, a provider of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work, is midway through construction on what it has called Puerto Rico’s "largest" solar-plus-storage project.

Solar manufacturer GCL SI is among the companies that will be present at COP28 and with whom PV Tech was able to speak with Zhang Kun, executive president of GCL SI about what it expects from COP28, the pledge to treble renewable generation capacity and what the solar industry can bring to the conversation in Dubai.

The solar industry in California “has experienced devastating results in the form of business closures and depression-level layoffs”.

118 countries have signed the ‘Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge’ on Saturday (2 December) at COP28 in Dubai to treble global installed capacity by 2030.

According to Spanish tracker provider Soltec, hailstorms resulted in construction-related losses exceeding US$1 billion in 2021 in the US.

New York state has installed 2GW of community solar capacity, according to the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority.

US solar developer Primergy Solar has closed commitments for US$300 million in debt and text equity investments for a 100MW solar project in Arkansas, US.