Americas

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.

Renewables are set to contribute 80% of new power capacity to 2030 in the stated policies scenario (STEPS), with solar PV alone accounting for more than half of it, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new tax incentive last week (19th October) for solar and wind projects in low-income and “underserved” communities, as well as Tribal lands.

Legislators in Texas face a balancing act when considering grid reliability and the ratio of different methods to generate power.

Clearway Energy has started commercial operations at its Daggett solar-plus-storage facility in the US state of California.