renewables

Arctech has signed a contract with the China Energy Engineering Corporation to provide 240MW of trackers to a project in Uzbekistan.

International energy company Uniper has announced a plant to develop two solar parks with a total capacity of 317MW in Lower Saxony, Germany.

German energy company RWE has started operating two solar PV projects with a combined capacity of 31.5MWp and their battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the Garzweiler opencast mine in Germany.

Pattern Energy has started the construction of its 3GW SunZia Transmission project that will offer clean power to western states of the US.

An IRENA report into the cost of producing power has found that the levelised cost of electricity in the solar PV sector fell by 3% in 2022.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a new round of funding to develop and deploy microgrid technologies across regional and remote communities, including a majority of it allocated for microgrid projects in First Nations communities.

Although the floating solar market is expanding, the top 10 countries that will have more than 500MW of cumulative floating solar installations by 2031 are entirely from Asia.

Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has announced that it had shipped over 1GW of solar modules to the Middle East distribution solar market by the second quarter of 2023.

Indian module manufacturer Navitas Solar has announced a plan to set up a 1.2GW solar module assembly plant in the US.

Investment in renewables in Southeast Asian countries could reach US$119 billion by 2027 driven by wind, solar and geothermal projects, according to energy research Rystad Energy.