Americas

The Austin City Council has approved a new agreement with Austin Energy that will see the utility company deliver enough renewable energy to the grid to meet the needs of more than half of its customers by 2020.

Solar Steel, a division of Gonvarri Steel Services, will supply 45.6MW of its TracSmart Single-Axis trackers for a PV project located in David, in the state of Chiriquí, Panama.

The solar investment tax credit (ITC) has survived a major round of tax reform in the US but demand for credits generally could fall.

A subsidiary of PV equipment supplier Amtech Systems has received a follow-on order for three next generation solar Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems.

BP is to acquire a 43% stake in prolific UK-based solar developer Lightsource in what stands to be a significant new solar partnership.

A comprehensive new study conducted by an international team of scientists and published in the journal Nature Energy sheds light on the various low-carbon technologies and how they differ when it comes to indirect greenhouse gas emissions in their life cycle.

NRGi and Better Energy have collaborated on a new PV project in Denmark that spans the area of 112 football pitches — with the installation standing as Denmark’s third largest PV park.

EDF Renewable Services has commenced full operations and maintenance (O&M) services for Chile’s second largest solar park, the 146MW Bolero Solar PV plant in the Atacama Desert in the region of Antofagasta.

French power giant EDF RE has commissioned 179MW of solar projects that are powering Switch data centres in Apex, Nevada.

South Carolina utility SCE&G has already met the state-mandated utility-scale solar goal set by the South Carolina Distributed Resource Program Act, with the company producing 42MW of utility-scale PV power years ahead of its 2020 deadline.