Americas

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.

PV Tech Power Editors JP Casey and John Lubbock and Reporter George Heynes caught up with several experts to talk about the skills shortage in the solar industry in the UK and abroad and how this growing industry is approaching the issue.

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies has acquired selected assets from California-headquartered solar company Complete Solaria.

US energy company Southern Power has acquired the 200MW Millers Branch solar farm in the US state of Texas from EDF Renewables.

US community solar company Nautilus Solar Energy has secured US$202 million for a 186MW portfolio consisting of mainly community solar projects.