October 23rd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Texas-based Vistra (NYSE: VST), an integrated retail electricity and power generation company, plans to build 6 utility-scale solar power plants across Texas. It will buy the solar modules for these power plants from Arizona-based First Solar
October 16th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
28 clean energy startups were selected to receive $150,000 each for their concepts
October 14th, 2020 | by Press Release
The grid-connected 2.2 GW PV plant is located in Qinghai Province at an average altitude of over 3000 m. Built in five phases, it consists of 672 PV arrays with over 7 million PV modules. Three 330 kV booster stations were constructed and string inverters were installed
October 11th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
In Europe, new techniques are combining solar and agriculture to make land more productive.
October 9th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Audi Hungaria has just turned on the largest solar roof in Europe. The solar PV roof is the size of 22.4 football fields (soccer fields), includes 36,400 solar cells, and has a power capacity of 12 megawatts (MW)
October 6th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Community solar power and community choice aggregation are two of the hot trends in the US solar energy industry. Now, more residents of New York are getting access to the community solar power and community choice aggregation
October 1st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
China's largest solar-plus-storage project has been connected to the grid. How big is it — 500 megawatts (MW)? 700 MW? 1,100 MW? Nope, we're in 2020 — it's 2,200 MW (2.2 GW)
October 1st, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
3 miles high in Tibet or covering the surface of a lake in North Carolina, solar power plants are springing up in more places around the world.
September 28th, 2020 | by Press Release
BAODING, China, Sept. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the Beijing-Xiong’an high-speed railway between Daxing Airport and Xiong’an Station officially entered the dynamic testing phase of [&hellip
September 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A solar power plant being built in Bordeaux, France, on a former landfill is expected to be the largest "urban" solar PV power plant in Europe. It is using First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) solar modules
September 17th, 2020 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration
According to 2018 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for newly constructed utility-scale electric generators in the United States, annual capacity-weighted average construction costs for solar photovoltaic systems and onshore wind turbines have continued to decrease
September 17th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
As I've been writing recently, solar power prices just keep on dropping. How much? Well, enough that it makes financial sense for Google to buy subsidy-free solar power in extremely northerly (i.e., grey) Denmark
September 16th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Floating PV NV installed a floating solar power plant on 5 hectares of lake at a cost of €2 million project. It includes 17,250 solar panels that are expected to produce 7 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity per year, which is approximately how much 2,000 homes in the region use
September 14th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
I wrote about the newest US Solar Market Insight Report this morning to provide an update on US solar power capacity added in the first half of 2020, including in relation to other energy sources. However, there's much more to cover in the report, so let's go through some of those charts again as well as other ones
September 14th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
At the end of last week, I reported on new power capacity installed across the United States in the first half of 2020. The data for that report came from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). However, FERC's dataset is incomplete. It does not include rooftop solar power and some other small and medium sized solar power installations
September 13th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states
September 12th, 2020 | by Saurabh
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) acquired 306 megawatts of solar PV power projects from RattanIndia Group. The transactions is valued at close to $230 million
September 12th, 2020 | by Saurabh
India’s largest government-owned gas distribution company has once again expressed its intention to expand its footprint in renewable energy sector
September 12th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Following up on our report on US power capacity additions in the first half of 2020, this article covers electricity generation in the first half of 2020. It splits out electricity generation by source. It also compares those numbers to the same electricity generation split in the first half of 2019 and in the first half of
September 11th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Solar power keeps growing in the United States. In the month of June, 60.1% of new power capacity added in the country was from solar power plants. Another 37.5% was from wind power plants. And 2.4% was from hydropower. If you've done the quick math on that, that means that 100% of new power capacity came from renewable energy sources in June
