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Swedish industrial seal manufacturer SFK has signed a 12-year Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) purchase agreement with US clean energy developer Clearway Energy Group.
Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro has been contracted to build a 1.8GWac solar PV project as part of Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.
US community solar company Nautilus Solar Energy has signed a US$72 million tax equity deal with institutional investment management firm Foss & Company for a 62MW solar portfolio.
UK battery energy storage systems (BESS) developer Harmony Energy has established a joint venture with New Zealand energy group Clarus’ subsidiary First Renewables to develop a 200MWac solar project.
US independent power producer (IPP) Silicon Ranch has signed an agreement with data centre developer Tract to coordinate the location and timing of renewable generation as part of data centre development process.
The Department of the Interior in the US has announced an updated roadmap for solar energy development on public lands, expanding the Western Solar Plan to five new states and planning to provide as many as 22 million acres of land for building solar projects.
Czechia recorded a significant increase in installed solar capacity last year, with about 970MWp of capacity added to the grid. However, the growth was mainly driven by household rooftop solar, according to the Czech Solar Association.
Solar PV systems generated about 59.9TWh of electricity in 2023, up by about 1% year-on-year, according to a study conducted by German research organisation Fraunhofer Institution for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE).
Swiss PV manufacturer Meyer Burger has said it has started “receiving shipments of equipment and tools” at its newest manufacturing facility, a 2GW plant in Goodyear, in the US state of Arizona.
New York Power Authority (NYPA), a utility managing around a quarter of the electric load in the US state, is seeking to collaborate with renewable energy and energy storage developers and operators, as part of the state’s push to deploy more clean energy resources.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, with the US government body now expecting the contribution of solar power to the US’ energy mix to exceed that of hydropower by 2025.
