Solar

First Solar has acquired a 1.2 million ft2 facility in Ohio, that has been repurposed to serve as a distribution centre.

Nomad Electric has initiated its first contract on the Iberian Peninsula, undertaking the construction of EPC utility scale solar plants in Portugal with a total capacity of 45 MWp.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts that wind and solar energy will lead growth in US power generation for the next two years.

Atlas Renewable Energy and Votorantim Cimentos have signed a power purchase agreement to supply and purchase 100 MW of solar energy a year.

SSE Renewables has acquired a 400 MW portfolio of early-stage projects in Poland from IBC Solar.

OX2 has sold 45 MW worth of solar projects to a Spanish company called Greening.

Convergent Energy and Power, has announced it has over 1 GWh of energy storage and solar-plus-storage systems.

Intersect Power’s 828 MWp Lumina solar project in Texas reaches commercial operation.

First Solar has inaugurated a new 3.3 GW solar manufacturing facility in India.

ESB has awarded a contract to Greencells GmbH for the development of Bullstown solar farm, which will be located to the south-east of Ashbourne, County Meath.

ACCIONA Energía has completed its first hybrid renewable energy plant with the construction of a photovoltaic plant on the site of the existing Escepar wind farm in Spain.

GreenIT has signed an agreement with Galileo for the realisation of eight photovoltaic projects across three regions in Southern, Central, and Northern Italy, totalling approximately 140 MW.

Madison Gas and Electric and We Energies have installed the final panels at their 300 MW Badger Hollow solar farm in Wisconsin.

Enel S.p.A. has closed an agreement with ORMAT Technologies Inc. on the sale of a US renewable asset portfolio of approximately 150 MW, comprising of geothermal and solar plants.

HASI has announced that it has invested in a 605 MW renewable portfolio owned and operated by The AES Corporation, comprising of several solar and solar-plus-storage projects.