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The company announced last week that the Desert Quartzite project in Riverside County, California, began operations in December 2024.

In total, 30 of the projects are solar PV – either utility-scale or distributed energy generation (DER) – and would add 2.8GW of capacity.

National Grid Renewables has begun construction on a solar project in Ohio and completed construction on two others in Minnesota.

JA Solar has unveiled its DeepBlue 5.0 series of modules, its latest n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) product.

The average solar power purchase agreement (PPA) price remained constant between the third and fourth quarters of 2024 in North America.

Independent power producer (IPP) Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company has secured US$950 million in aggregate financing to support the acquisition, construction and operation of a 500MWac solar PV power plant being pursued in the state of New York, US.

Nextracker has published its 2024 financial results, which include revenue of US$679 million in the quarter ending 31 December 2024.

NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary Florida Power and Light commissioned 2.2GW of new solar capacity in 2024.

Solar PV accounted for almost all of the new US electricity generation capacity added from January through November.

REC Silicon has secured a US$40 million term loan from Hanwha International LLC, a subsidiary of Korean conglomerate and REC majority shareholder, Hanwha Solutions.