Americas

North America will spend a cumulative US$12 trillion on renewable energy generation and its transmission by 2050, according to Norwegian-headquartered consultancy firm DNV.

How community solar and agrivoltaics can help boost and improve the design phase of an agriPV project based on the crop grown.

The expansion of solar PV and battery storage is keeping the global net zero 1.5 degree pathway open, and the current host of planned manufacturing capacity expansions will be enough to meet demand by 2030.

British oil and gas major bp has started construction at its 187MWdc Peacock Solar project in southern Texas.

Community solar developer Lightstar Renewables has started development of the first agrivoltaics project in New York, US.

In the last two weeks, new solar projects, or deals involving existing facilities, have been struck in Sweden, Senegal and Uruguay.

US energy company Southern Power, a subsidiary of utility the Southern Company, has acquired a 150MW solar PV plant in Wyoming from PV manufacturer Qcells USA.

A subsidiary of the French power company EDF Renewables in North America has signed a 150MW solar-plus-storage power purchase agreement (PPA) with utility El Paso Electric in New Mexico, US.

Some highlights in pictures of the latest edition of RE+ 2023 that was held in Las Vegas earlier this September.

Minnesota authorities have approved a plan submitted by Xcel Energy to expand the capacity of its Sherco Solar project to 710MW.