Solar

Low Carbon has announced the construction of three new large scale solar farms, to be funded through a multi-bank financing facility which aims to construct 1 GW of new solar capacity.

This move is to support the demands of its solar and onshore wind development pipeline in Ireland, which has now grown to over 900 MW.

Pacifico Energy Partners and Eiffel Investment Group will combine their resources in a dedicated joint venture to accelerate the development of renewable energy projects.

Sonnedix have acquired five solar PV projects from Lightsource bp. This acquisition amounts to a 30 MW solar portfolio, with plans to be operational in 2024.

MOZAÏK Energies and GALILEO have set up a strategic partnership to develop, build, and operate a pipeline of utility scale ground-based PV plants at a national scale, with a specific focus on the Northern parts of France.

Statkraft has signed a second hybrid power purchase and battery optimisation agreement with Warrington Borough Council, covering a solar farm and battery storage site in Gloucestershire, UK.

The project could have up to a generating capacity of 30.96 MWp for distribution to the national grid.

The companies have signed a power purchase agreement to develop a 2060 MW solar photovoltaic plant in Saudi Arabia.

JERA Co., Inc. and Japan Data Science Consortium Co. Ltd have jointly developed a highly accurate system for predicting solar power generation based on weather forecast data and past power generation performance.

The solar farms will have a combined installed capacity of 53.1 MWp from more than 88 000 solar modules.

Medebridge is a large scale, ready-to-build solar farm in Essex with full planning consent, grid connection, and land agreements in place.

SolarDuck and its partners have been awarded the Demonstration of Energy Innovation subsidy to build and test the offshore floating solar platform Merganser.

BELECTRIC has secured another major contract in the Netherlands to construct four solar power plants for Low Carbon.

Canadian Solar Inc. has announced that the 100 MWp Azuma Kofuji solar project located in the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, recently reached commercial operation.

Global industry organisations representing wind, solar, hydropower, green hydrogen, long duration energy storage and geothermal energy industries have officially joined forces under one Global Renewables Alliance, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding at COP27.