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US ROUND-UP: Akuo’s first solar VPPA, Invenergy-Meta 791MW deals and RWE’s Kentucky solar launch

June 26, 2025

A round-up of news from the US solar sector this week, including Akuo, Meta and RWE.

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The brownfield ‘coal-to-solar’ project reviving a Kentucky community

May 9, 2025

BrightNight made community engagement central to its plans for a 201MW PV project in a former mining area in Kentucky.

Bert Thin Films tests copper paste on TOPCon solar cell with 24% conversion efficiency

April 14, 2025

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

The Nature Conservancy to develop 17 solar PV and storage projects on former Appalachian coal mines

February 12, 2025

The projects will be developed by Sun Tribe Development and ENGIE across the US states of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.

Savion commissions 111MW Kentucky solar plant on reclaimed coal mine

January 15, 2025

Savion has commissioned its Martin County Solar Project (MCSP) in the US state of Kentucky, its first to be built on a reclaimed coal mine.

‘Low hanging fruit is gone’ for US solar developers, says EDP CEO

October 23, 2024

Ganapathy said that her company has consciously established solar, storage and wind projects in a “broad mix” of US states

Kentucky utilities to delay new solar capacity until 2035 despite data centre demand growth

October 21, 2024

Two Kentucky electricity utilities will stall any solar PV capacity additions until 2035 unless solar "becomes more economically competitive".

National Grid Renewables starts construction on 160MW ‘largest’ Kentucky PV project

December 15, 2023

National Grid Renewables began construction this week (14th December) on the ‘largest’ solar PV project in the US state of Kentucky.

Advocates applaud Kentucky solar and storage approvals but warn against further oil & gas backing

November 20, 2023

Approvals granted earlier this month for utility plans to replace coal in Kentucky with solar PV and battery storage have been broadly welcomed

Kentucky utilities get approval for plan to replace coal plant with 1GW solar, storage by 2027

November 9, 2023

Two utilities in Kentucky, US, have received approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC) to add 1GW of solar PV and energy storage to replace a 600MW coal plant by 2027.

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