Americas

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.

Provisional figures show that 2023 set a new and massive record for utility-scale solar, doubling the previous best.

PV manufacturer Meyer Burger has decided to close its module assembly plant in Germany and focus on its footprint in the US.

Governments and solar developers looking to widen the spread of residential solar PV in the US should look to deploy non-residential solar projects.

Tuscon Electric Power and UniSource Energy have launched a proposals for new power generation and energy storage projects in Arizona.

The streamlining of all phases of a PV project will be essential to ensuring anticipated deployment goals are met. Tom Kenning looks at the AI-enabled technologies helping speed up project construction and easing a shortage of skilled labour.

Dutch-German solar testing firm Sinovoltaics will expand its operations in the US market as a result of the solar and battery energy storage manufacturing “boom” stimulated by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).