Construction of Virginia’s largest solar farm was announced last week. The new utility-scale solar facility, under development by Community Energy Solar, will power Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers.
Dubai-based power project developer Access Power announced today the inauguration of the solar power plant in Soroti made up of 32,680 photovoltaic panels. The new 10-megawatt facility is the country’s first grid-connected solar plant and will generate clean, low-carbon, sustainable electricity to 40,000 homes, schools and businesses in the area.
Yesterday, stakeholders from across Massachusetts and New England joined the Sterling Municipal Light Department to celebrate the groundbreaking of the first utility-scale energy storage facility in Massachusetts.
Neoen, a leading French renewable energy firm, and First Solar announced that they have successfully bid for a 47.5 megawatt (MW) AC utility-scale solar power project in Zambia. The consortium was awarded the project by Zambia’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) at a groundbreaking tariff of $0.06 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), the lowest seen in sub-Saharan Africa, to date.
Proparco, the subsidiary of the French Development Agency has partnered with Meridiam, a global investor and asset manager, French manufacturer Solairedirect (Engie) and Schneider Electric in the construction and operation of a 30MW Senergy photovoltaic solar power plant in Senegal.
Wiki-Solar.org released this week the list of world’s top 30 utility-scale solar EPC contractors for the year 2015, where First Solar ranks first again, as it did in 2014.
A 50 MW concentrated solar power plant, built by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power-led consortium, was officially inaugurated on Monday in Bokpoort near Upington, the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
Figures released on yesterday by utility solar authority Wiki-Solar.org show that global capacity of large-scale PV generating capacity exceeded 60 GW at the end of 2015. More than 22 GW of new plants were commissioned in 2015, setting a sixth consecutive annual record.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reported on Monday that it has earmarked up to US$ 500 million for 2016 to support Egypt’s new solar energy programme, which aims to construct up to 2,000 MW of utility-scale solar generating capacity as part of an ambitious target to secure 20 per cent of electricity from renewable sources.
Spanish engineering and construction group Isolux Corsan announced yesterday it has delivered its first PV Solar project in Honduras on a budget of nearly $100m: the Aura II PV Solar Plant, which will produce 61.48 MWp and has been built within a tight window of only 7 months.
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Switzerland-based Etrion Corporation, a solar independent power producer, announced yesterday that the last site of the Mito solar project in Japan has been connected to the grid and will start recognizing revenues by the end of August 2015 following testing.
