Europe’s largest PV plant goes online
Hansainvest Real Assets has switched on Europe's largest solar plant – a 605 MW installation in Saxony, Germany. The project spans 500 hectares and operates under a power purchase agreement (PPA) with...
View ArticleIndia surpasses 75 GW of installed solar capacity
India’s cumulative PV installations hit 75.58 GW at the end of February, according to the latest figures from the nation's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).From pv magazine India India’s...
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Solar is starting to sunset use of natural gas in Texas
Texas, the top US state for solar deployment in 2023, is seeing tangible changes to its daily electricity supply, lowering the need for natural gas peaker plants, said the US Energy Information...
View ArticleNegative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets
Spanish consultancy AleaSoft Energy Forecasting recorded negative hourly electricity prices for all but one European energy market it analyzed during the first week of April, including in the Spanish...
View ArticleEU launches investigation into Chinese wind turbine suppliers
Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the European Commission, said this week that the EU authorities are investigating the deployment of several wind farms in Spain, Greece, France,...
View ArticleIvory Coast planning 678 MW of solar
The Ivory Coast's Ministry of Mines, Oil, and Energy has unveiled plans to build 12 solar plants with a total capacity of 678 MW.Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, the Ivory Coast’s Minister of Mines, Oil...
View ArticleSouth African data center specialist to build 12 MW of solar
Africa Data Centres’ new solar farm in South Africa’s Free State will begin as a 12 MW array. It will initially service its Cape Town site, before extending to supply power to the company's facilities...
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New York’s open-access solar-projection tool beats commercial competition
NYSolarCast, a solar-projection tool developed by the state of New York to handle its growing base of PV facilities, demonstrated equal or superior performance than competing commercial alternatives,...
View ArticleJuniper Green Energy switches on 105 MW solar plant in India
Juniper Green Energy has commissioned a 105 MW solar project in India, almost nine months ahead of its scheduled date of completion. The project has a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with...
View ArticleS-5! unveils new mounting systems for rooftop solar
S-5!, a supplier of mounting systems, plans to release two new mounting components for rooftop PV systems, including a new mount that allows for module-level power electronics to be attached directly...
View ArticlePV-powered heat pumps outperform solar thermal-driven counterparts in densely...
New research from Germany showed that PV-powered heat pumps could require less surface than their solar thermal-driven counterparts in district heating networks. The scientists also found that...
View ArticleItaly now set for 5.4 GW of ‘ready-to-build’ solar projects
Terna, the Italian grid operator, says that it has received grid-connection requests for 144.48 GW of solar projects to date.From pv magazine Italy Italian grid operator Terna has updated its online...
View ArticleAustria earmarks €35 million for battery rebates
The Austrian authorities are granting a rebate of €200 ($214)/kWh to residential and commercial storage systems.From pv magazine Germany The Climate and Energy Fund in Austria has started the...
View ArticleSolar, wind energy curtailment skyrocketed in Japan in fiscal 2023
New figures from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) show that wind and solar power curtailment increased significantly to 1.76 TWh over the past 12 months, from 0.57 TWh in fiscal...
View ArticleChad opens tender for solar-diesel hybrid projects with battery storage
The authorities in Chad have launched a tender for solar-diesel hybrid projects with battery storage, featuring a combined 4 MW of solar capacity and 2 MWh of daily storage.Chad has launched a tender...
View ArticleVertical agrivoltaics for forage crops, animal grazing
US-based Sunstall has deployed a vertical agrivoltaic facility based on its racking solution in the United States. The system features 18 rows of 21 panels and has a total capacity of 170 kW.US-based...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court to review rooftop solar net metering
California’s highest court granted review to a lawsuit challenging a “regressive” rooftop solar policy called NEM 3.0.From pv magazine USA A controversial rooftop solar rulemaking decision has risen to...
View ArticleItaly adds 2,022 MW/3,836 MWh of distributed storage capacity in 2023
Italy hit 3,367 MW/6,645 MWh of cumulative distributed storage capacity at the end of December. The new figures indicate that lithium-ion technology powers most storage systems, at 516,475 units in...
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New guide helps US homeowners to go solar
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have published an open-access guide to rooftop solar and battery energy storage that covers costs, incentives and policies.From pv magazine...
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European Solar sees warm, cloudy end to winter, linked to record temperatures
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that in March most European solar operators and grids saw less solar irradiance and production than normal, due to enhanced...
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