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Record small-scale solar capacity added in 2022
The Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States added 6.4 GW of small-scale solar capacity in 2022, the most ever in a single year.
US solar panel shipments at a record high in 2022
In 2022, solar photovoltaic panel shipments in the United States increased 10% from 2021, setting another annual record (31.7 million peak kilowatts, kWp), based on the latest...
Wave energy agreement targets stranded fossil reserves
Wave energy specialists Mocean Energy and offshore energy enabler Aker Solutions Subsea have committed to an agreement to jointly explore how locally generated wave energy can extend...
Secursun starts construction of 1.1 GW solar portfolio
Joint venture Secursun has started the construction of the first solar parks in its portfolio of projects amounting to around 1.1 GW. In total, more than 50 of its utility solar PV...
Thailand invests in subsea wave power project
Thailand’s state energy company, PTTEP, has joined the Renewables for Subsea Power collaborative project which is intended to prove the concept of powering subsea equipment with...
SeaVolt to launch floating solar test platform
SeaVolt, a collaboration of Tractebel, DEME, and Jan De Nul, is preparing for its first floating solar energy test platform to be installed offshore. The platform flotation system...
Vattenfall expands its solar presence in Germany
Vattenfall has acquired the German solar developer Solizer. The transaction includes an experienced team and a pipeline of large-scale solar projects in Germany with a volume of 4...
Renewables at 52% of consumption in Germany
Wind, solar and other renewable energy sources covered 52 % of German electricity consumption in the first six months of 2023, up from 49 % in the first half of last year, reports...
World's largest hydro-solar power plant starts generating
With the installation of 523.1 MW of Astronergy PV modules, the first phase of Kela Power Plant, the world's largest hydro-solar power plant and the world's highest power station of...
Build underway on USA’s first full-scale wave energy test facility
Jacobs has completed the underground infrastructure engineering that links the ocean to a new onshore utility-grid connection and monitoring facility for the PacWave...
Heliostat Consortium announces funding awards
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leaders of the Heliostat Consortium, have announced seven awardees from...
Badeel and ACWA Power invest SAR12.2 bn in three new solar projects
The Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), a wholly-owned company of the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), and ACWA Power have announced the signing of power...
Aggreko partners farmers’ communities solar initiative
Aggreko’s Energy Transition Solutions division is to become the strategic capital partner for the Farmers Powering Communities community solar initiative in the USA. Aggreko ETS...
200MW Kom Ombo solar project obtains financing
ACWA Power, the prominent Saudi developer, investor, and operator of power generation, has signed a US$123 million financing package to develop the 200 MW Kom Ombo project,...
US Inflation Reduction Act to pump up annual energy outlook
The US Energy Information Administration projects that by 2050 total US solar capacity, which includes both utility-scale solar and rooftop solar in the commercial and...
ACWA signs up to new green projects in Uzbekistan
ACWA Power has signed three Power Purchase Agreements and Investment Agreements with Uzbekistan’s Joint-Stock Company (JSC) National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU) and Ministry...
Significant renewable power expansion in Louisiana
Entergy Louisiana has made the largest renewable power expansion request in state history. On 13 March the company filed a request with its regulator, the Louisiana Public...
Cost of capital threatens UK renewable energy projects
The rising cost of capital faced by developers of renewable energy projects such as onshore wind and solar PV may reduce the number of new projects and cause some already...
Solar projects achieve significant milestones in Texas
OCI Solar Power has now originated more than 3 GW of utility-scale solar projects in Texas.
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