Markets & Finance

The Australian government of Victoria has released an amended version of the Victorian Transmission Plan, adding 200,000 hectares of area to develop renewable energy – in addition to 230,000 hectares proposed in the first draft.

Investment fund Stonepeak has launched a new Middle Eastern renewables platform headed up by a former executive at Jinko Power.

US solar industry representatives have voiced concern at the US Treasury Department’s new “start of construction” rules for large projects.

Maxeon shipped just 153.2MW of modules in the first half of this year, just 15% of the capacity sold in the first half of 2024.

Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar module reuse and recycling scheme.

SolMicroGrid has launched an Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) partner program for project developers, engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

JP Casey investigates efforts currently being made to standardise the offtake agreement for the renewable power sector.

South Africa’s state-owned energy utility, Eskom, has issued a request for proposals for 291MW of solar capacity.

Despite policy setbacks, US manufacturing has come a long way since 2022 and shows strong potential looking ahead. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at the data.

Juniper Green Energy has secured INR17.39 billion (US$197 million) in debt financing from government-backed Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).