finance

While the Spanish government’s tenders are very welcome, it is the merchant and PPA opportunity powering the nation’s 29GW pipeline.

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lauded the early performance of the solar assets it rates, ultimately concluding that operational risk in solar is “more benign” than other renewable technologies.

Edgar A. Gunter explores US solar's PURPA problems with Montana providing a useful case in point.

The Softbank Vision Fund will begin a major investment partnership with Saudi Arabia that could see 200GW of solar generation capacity installed.

Billed as the ‘Largest Single Commitment to Renewable Energy by a State in U.S. History’ the State of New York announced a US$1.4 billion investment package and over US$3 Billion in direct investment in solar, wind and hydro energy projects, expected to generate around 3,000 jobs.

News from Hevel, a Solaria lawsuit, US$100m for solar from the Green Climate Fund, more Japanese finance for Canadian Solar and a new home for Intersolar India.

NextEra Energy is suing the US Treasury Department for more than US$135 million claiming that it miscalculated grants owed to it for the Silver State Solar project in Nevada.

A fund of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is to acquire NRG Energy, Inc.’s US renewable energy platform businesses and its stake in NRG Yield, Inc. (NYLD) for US$1.375 billion in cash.

Local firm Gostaresh Energy No Atiyeh has completed a 10MW solar PV project in the Yazd Province of central Iran.

EDF, Clal Sun and Belectric complete 30MW project in Israel, Invenergy issues bond to refinance 65MW Uruguay project, More large-scale completion in Iran.