Americas

Meta has signed offtake deals for various utility-scale PV projects, many of which are in Texas, where it has relocated some operations.

Spanish renewables developer Zelestra has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with gas provider Abastible for a solar-plus-storage plant in Chile.

Construction of the solar cell plant is expected to begin in mid-year 2025 with commercial production beginning in the second half of 2026.

US independent power producer (IPP) Catalyze has secured US$400 million in debt facility from investment firm ATLAS SP Partners.

Reducing silver consumption remains one of the key trends in the solar industry, such as going busbar-less, highlights the ITRPV.

Terabase Energy has raised US$130 million in finance to support the scale-up of its Terafab solar project assembly line.

JA Solar has signed a module supply agreement with Exel Solar to provide 260MW of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) modules.

Adapture Renewables has acquired a 110MW solar-plus-storage project from Samsung C&T Renewables in Colorado.

PV Talk: “It then has gone to 1,500V and we’re on the precipice of another change," ABB's Brian Nelson tells PV Tech Premium.

Louth Callan Renewables will build two new solar projects in the US state of Delaware, with a combined capacity of 213MW.