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Disney Announces New 50 Megawatt Solar Project To Power Two Theme Parks
Walt Disney World Resort has announced that it is partnering with solar project developer Origis Energy USA to develop a new 50 megawatt (MW) that will power two of its four theme...
British Solar Renewables and Mongoose Strike Community Solar Management Deal
British Solar Renewables (BSR) has agreed a 'first of its kind' deal to manage 50MW of community-owned solar assets on behalf of Mongoose Energy, the two companies announced today.
The deal will see...
SunPower To Acquire SolarWorld Americas
In a move being billed as a “new chapter in American solar panel manufacturing” SunPower, one of the world’s leading solar manufacturers, has announced that it will acquire 100% of SolarWorld Americas,...
Finland’s Fortum Wins Tender To Increase Country’s Solar Energy Capacity By 30%
The Finland-based firm Fortum has won a tender to build out the country’s total solar energy capacity by around 30%, it has revealed.
Given that Fortum is majority-owned by Finland itself, the fact...
More Good News About Coal-Killing Perovskite Solar Cells
US coal and nuclear energy stakeholders are still holding out hope for their aging power plants, but the window for relief is closing fast. They face stiff competition from low-cost natural gas,...
Solar Smashes Wind In First German Technology Neutral Tender
As the expiry of the previous support scheme for renewable energy in Denmark resulted in a significant expansion with land based wind energy in 2017, we hold our breath to see how...
Bentley Motors Starts Work on UK’s Largest Solar Car Port
Bentley Motors has started work on what will be the UK's biggest solar carport at its factory headquarters in Crewe, as part of the luxury carmaker's plan to boost its green power...
Solar+Storage Project In North Carolina Highlights Improvements In Panel Efficiency
Cyprus Creek Renewables has partnered with LG Electronics on what is the largest solar-plus-storage installation in the continental United States. The project is located in coastal North Carolina. It’s an 8.5 megawatt...
ABB Technologies to Enable Expansion of Solar Park in Dubai
ABB has won an order worth more than $90 million from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), the leading power utility in United Arab Emirates (UAE), to build the Shams 400 kV...
US-based NextEra Energy has signed one of the largest solar panel supply deals in history with China-based JinkoSolar for 2,750 megawatts (MW) alongside a separate move in which JinkoSolar will open its...
Almost All Power Capacity Added In India In Q4 2017 Was Renewable
Renewable energy technologies, led overwhelmingly by solar power, continued to lead in new power generation capacity installed in India in the fourth quarter of last year.
According to data released by the federal...
Saudi Arabia to House World’s Largest Solar Project
According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world. It produces 13 percent of the world's...
Solar Power Energy Payback Time Is Now Super Short
Some solar power critics seem to enjoy trying to point out that the energy payback time for solar power is too long, and therefore this form of renewable energy is not valid....
Highest Ever Quarterly Solar Manufacturing Capacity Expansion Announcements In Q4’17
Mark Osborne, the Senior News Editor for PV Tech, revealed last week that the fourth quarter of 2017 saw the highest ever recorded levels of new solar PV manufacturing expansion announcements for...
Sunnova Introduces Solar-Plus-Storage Offering “SunSafe”
Houston-based solar power company Sunnova has this week expanded its offerings to bring it into the solar-plus-storage market alongside its bigger-name competition Tesla and Sunrun with the introduction of its Sunnova SunSafe...
Tech Giant Microsoft Signs Largest Corporate Solar Agreement in the U.S.
Microsoft has announced the single largest corporate purchase of solar power ever seen in the U.S., signing an agreement with sPower to add 315 MW of electricity via two solar projects in...
