solar farm

In general, solar panels mounted over vegetation demonstrate surface temperature drops compared to arrays mounted over bare ground due to evapotranspiration from vegetation.

Australian utility Origin Energy has acquired a large-scale solar farm development project co-developed by Reach Solar Energy and PwC Australia in New South Wales, Australia.

British energy company ScottishPower is targeting up to 40MW of solar as part of its Green Hydrogen for Scotland project.

Lebanon could reconfigure its laws and regulations to allow private sector actors to generate renewable energy for sale to the grid, it emerged as the Middle Eastern country opened up its first solar-plus-storage tender process.

Hawaii’s largest solar farm, the 27.6MW Waianae Solar Project, is on track to reach commercial operation by 15 December, Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) has said.

The Alberta government is investigating a proposal for the province’s first solar farm that could power 50% of government operations.

GE and Virginia Solar Group have initiated commercial operations at a 32MW Kumenan solar farm in western Japan.

The Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has announced the winner of its most recent renewable energy procurement project. The preferred selected bidder, Eight Rivers Energy Company (EREC), is to construct, operate and own a 33.1MW solar PV plant at Paradise Park in Westmoreland, at a proposed lowest electricity price of 8.54 US cents/kWh.

OCI Solar Power and energy professionals group Buenavista Renewables (BVR) joined with the local Mexican government to commemorate what is claimed to be Mexico’s first private solar park.

CT Cosmos, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s Communication Towers Ltd, has established plans to build a 70MW solar farm worth US$150 million, according to several local reports.