Americas

Colombian energy supplier Celsia has acquired a 375MW solar PV portfolio in Colombia from renewables developer Mainstream Renewable Power.

ES Foundry has signed a 150MW cell supply deal with what it calls a “leading national community solar developer” in the US.

Catalyze has secured US$85 million in tax equity investment to support the construction of 75MW of distributed solar projects in the US.

Chinese, Indian and American companies have strengthened their positions atop the solar industry’s EPC rankings, according to Wiki-Solar.

US residential solar company Complete Solaria will change its name to SunPower, resurrecting the name of one of the US' longest-running solar companies which folded last year.

Renewable energy will need policy support to reach “economically optimal” levels for the global energy transition, according to BloomberNEF.

Summit Ridge Energy and Apollo have invested US$400 million to own and operate a portfolio of commercial solar assets in Illinois.

US renewable energy company Sunraycer Renewables has closed a US$475 million project financing facility for two solar-plus-storage projects in Texas.

Texas-based renewables developer Vesper Energy has begun commercial operations on its 600MW Hornet Solar project.

Bert Thin Films has used a copper paste on a tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) M10 solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 24%.