Americas

The total corporate funding into the global solar sector increased by 55% in Q1 2023 compared with Q4 2022, and 11% year-on-year compared with the same period in Q1 last year.

US-based clean energy company Avangrid has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) with a view to developing 1GW of solar, wind and energy storage assets.

Over 400 US solar companies have sent a letter to Congress advising against the repeal of Joe Biden’s two-year waiver on solar import tariffs, led by trade body the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Solar projects accounted for 56.5% of the total utility-scale clean energy investments from 16 August 2022 to 31 March 2023.

The US market is expected to see a strong uptick in overall module supply, both domestic and overseas, in 2023. Alongside this will be a range of different module technologies, making the US market the most differentiated from a technology standpoint this year.

US utility Dominion Energy Virginia has received approval from the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for two dozen of new solar and energy storage projects.

Procuring power purchase agreement tools will be an option for industry players amid an energy pricing crisis and volatility.

The acquisition included 72 solar projects, of them 90% being community solar projects, and six battery storage projects.

The Missouri subsidiary of US utility Ameren has received approvals from the state Public Service Commission to acquire a 150MW solar project in White County, Illinois. The project is expected to enter commercial operations late next year.

Utility giant Engie has reached commercial operation for a 181.25MW solar PV plant in Chile, its largest one so far in the country.