Americas

Solar Module Super League (SMSL) member and global solar manufacturer Canadian Solar will build a 5GW solar cell production facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

US-based independent power producer Enfinity Global has closed €300 million (US$316 million) in equity funding from global alternative asset manager ICG, with another €100 million expected to close within a year.

US utility Duke Energy has completed the sale of its utility-scale renewables arm to renewables asset owner Brookfield Renewable.

US residential solar installer Sunnova's new customer addition slightly dropped to over 37,000 in the third quarter this year, while its net loss in the same quarter increased to US$56.5 million year-on-year.

Nextracker has published its financial results for the third quarter of the year, headlined by revenue of US$573 million.

The New York state government has awarded permits to 6.4GW of new clean energy projects in the state, 1.5GW of which will be in solar plants.

Of this 3.2GW, 1,485MW were solar PV installations. In addition, just over 1GW of new projects were placed into service since Q2.

Independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix has acquired 416MW of solar PV portfolio in Chile from Italian energy company Enel and its subsidiary Enel Chile.

French oil giant TotalEnergies has reached commercial operations of a 380MWp solar-plus-storage project in Texas, US.

Thin-film manufacturer Ascent Solar has received positive feedback from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for its agrivoltaics technology, and the company will now apply for funding for the development of a proposed agrivoltaics system.