Americas

Enel Chile, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Enel, has received authorisation from the National Electricity Coordinator to begin commercial operations of a 99MW solar PV plant in Chile.

“Every year, we see more attention from our customers, for whom this is becoming more at the top of their minds. Usually in PV, it’s been volume price and spec of the product. But now it's also how do we make that product, besides pure performance,” says Cemil Seber, VP of global marketing at REC Solar.

Canadian Solar has delivered its first 700W TOPCon modules, which were made in the US, to US solar distributor Signature Solar.

Meyer Burger has started “receiving shipments of equipment and tools” at its newest manufacturing facility in the US state of Arizona.

Greek renewables developer Mytilineos has reached financial close on four solar PV projects in Chile, combining 588MW of capacity.

Apex and Microsoft have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) that will see the latter buy electricity from the Wheatsborough solar project

US renewables company Intersect Power has started commercial operations of a 828MWp/640MWac solar project in the US state of Texas.

Located in Tamil Nadu, the manufacturing plant produces First Solar’s Series 7 thin film cadmium telluride (CdTe) modules.

New York Power Authority is seeking to collaborate with renewable energy and energy storage developers and operators.

Sonia Dunlop and Alyssa Pek of the Global Solar Council reflect on how solar's inclusion in the COP28 agreement can spur the industry to new growth.