Americas

Materials science firm Corning has unveiled plans to build a solar wafer manufacturing plant in the US, according to a local news outlet.

With talks of repowering nuclear power plants in the US for data centres, VPPs can be an immediate alternative to cover data centres needs.

PV Talk: Sunrun’s Chris Rauscher tells Jonathan Touriño Jacobo why virtual power plants could be used to power energy-hungry data centres and, in the process, open up new residential solar + storage markets.

Yesterday, the bank launched a new tax equity investment “product” through its Energy Finance business aimed at renewable energy projects.

First Solar has published its results for the third quarter of 2024, which include lower net sales figures than in the previous quarter.

Recurrent Energy, the renewables developer arm of solar manufacturer Canadian Solar, has reached commercial operation of its 100MW solar PV project in Texas, US.

Verano Energy started construction on a 200MW solar park in Argentina, while YPF Luz will use a new tax regime (dubbed RIGI) on a 305MW PV plant in Mendoza.

The whole of the Fortune 500 is looking into clean energy tax credit transferability deals, according to tax credit investment banking firm Foss & Company.

This is the first of a six solar PV park portfolio, from US energy company DTE Energy, which has a combined capacity of 800MW.

The site has deployed US thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) module manufacturer First Solar’s Series 7 modules.