Americas

California is currently evaluating several community solar programmes, among them the NVBT which could boost solar-plus-storage projects.

Thin-film solar PV manufacturer First Solar has confirmed the Louisiana location of its fifth US manufacturing facility, a 3.5GW, US$1.1 billion dollar Cadmium Telluride (CadTel) module production factory.

India has surpassed 70GW of installed solar capacity as of the 30th June this year, according to the country’s government. It initially had a target of 100GW capacity by 2022.

Solar manufacturer Canadian Solar has signed a 7GW module supply agreement with EDF Renewables North America.

Swift Current Energy has closed financing for its 800MWdc/593MWac Double Black Diamond solar project, having raised US$779 million.

The Canadian Government has released a document outlining its intentions for the country’s energy transition away from carbon generation.

The cumulative community solar capacity in the US will reach 14GW by 2028, according to Wood Mackenzie and and the Coalition for Community Solar Access.

Array Technologies has published its financial results for the second quarter of this year, which include a revenue of US$507.7 million.

Stuti Gupta, Solar Lead at Prescinto, an AI-powered asset performance management platform for solar, wind and energy storage assets, and Prescinto Performance Excellence Head Abhishek Puttanna on the role of artificial intelligence in monitoring and optimising photovoltaic assets.

Nextracker and electronics component manufacturer Asteelflash, a subsidiary of electronics design and manufacturing company Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), have opened a manufacturing line to produce Nextracker’s patented components for solar tracking technology in California.