Americas

Renewables developer Plenitude will deploy perovskite-silicon tandem solar PV modules at a pilot solar project in the US.

Delegates at this year’s COP30 summit agreed to a “global mutirão”, meaning “collective efforts”, to tackle climate change, but the final text of the summit includes no framework for reducing fossil fuel production.

US solar module manufacturer First Solar has inaugurated its 3.5GW vertically integrated manufacturing facility in the state of Louisiana, the company’s fifth factory in the US.

CPS Energy has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to acquire 600MW of new solar capacity through power purchase agreements (PPA).

US independent power producer (IPP) Arevon Energy has begun construction on a 124MW solar PV project in Illinois, its first utility-scale project in the state.

Climate Fund Managers (CFM) has started commercial operations at the 26.4MW Pétalo del Norte I solar PV project in Colombia.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will need to invest US$25 billion by 2030 to maintain its position as a leader in the global energy sector.

PV Talk: George Touloupas of Intertek CEA explains how the regulatory environment is ratcheting up for the solar supply chain.

US solar module manufacturer First Solar will build a new production facility in the state of South Carolina, which will bring its US nameplate manufacturing capacity to 17.7GW by 2027.

Spain-based developer Acciona Energia will add a gigawatt-hour-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) at its 238MWp Malgarida solar PV plant in Chile.