Americas

US cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film solar module manufacturer First Solar has acquired a new facility in Ohio to support its distribution operations.

Danish renewables developer Ørsted has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply 80MW of solar PV power in the US to media company Bloomberg.

CALSSA executive director Bernadette Del Chiaro says a downward trend will be the best description of the California market this year without government intervention.

US utility AES Corporation built 3.5GW of renewable energy generation projects in 2023, led by solar PV installations.

The updated Western Solar Plan would streamline the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) framework for siting solar energy projects.

Distributed energy platform Scale Microgrids has acquired over 500MW of community solar and energy storage projects across several states in the US from Netherlands-based developer Gutami.

Corporate financing in the solar sector rose 42% in 2023 compared with 2022, according to Mercom Capital.

Panama’s national secretary of energy has launched its first bidding auction exclusively for renewables and energy storage.

The power will come from Atlas Renewable Energy's 787MWp Luiz Carlos solar project located in the municipality of Paracatu, Minas Gerais.

US distributed generation platform Aspen Power has secured US$241 million in three financing tranches to support construction of its future solar PV assets.