Americas

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.

Consumers Energy will build an 85MW solar plant at the site of two coal-fired power plants in Michigan, which it closed in June this year.

Southeast US utility Duke Energy has sold its distributed commercial generation portfolio – including solar PV developer REC Solar and all of its assets – to investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

2023 is on track to be a “record year” for solar PV installations in the US; through August, 8.4GW of utility-scale solar was installed, 50% more than the equivalent point in 2022. In those deployments, some trends have emerged.