Solar and battery storage projects have pushed Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) connection pipeline up 43% in a year to 80.9GW, overtaking the grid's existing 77GW of capacity for the first time.
A round-up of the latest financing news from the US PV industry, with Maxwell Power, CleanChoice Energy and Lydian Energy securing a combined US$1.3 billion.
UAE state-run renewables developer Masdar has signed an agreement with renewables developer Azerbaijan Green Energy Company (AGEC) to explore the development of new renewable energy projects in Azerbaijan.
African renewables financier CrossBoundary Energy has begun commercial operations at a 233MW/526MWh solar-plus-storage project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has launched a procedure to award 937MW of grid access capacity for renewables and energy storage projects.