3 July 2018. Through the tender, the French government intends to allocate 200 MW for ground-mounted PV plants up to 30 MW, and 100 MW for rooftop solar systems up to 8 MW.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/07/02/france-unveils-details-of-300-mw-solar-tender-for-fessenheim-nuclear-site ...
29 May 2018. The Don José solar plant is located in the state of Guacanajuato. Italian utility Enel was awarded the contract for the facility in Mexico’s first power auction.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/05/28/enel-switches-on-238-mw-solar-park-in-mexico ...
29 May 2018. Russian module maker and project developer Hevel intends to deploy 75 MW of capacity by 2022 in the region, which has poor connections with the country’s national grid.
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28 May 2018. The solar facility will sell part of its power to a company near Toledo. Through a seven-year PPA, the buyer will cover around 40% of its energy needs
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/05/25/edf-solar-secures-ppa-for-7-mw-project-in-central-spain ...
26 May 2018. Quebec-based Nemaska Lithium (TSX:NMX) announced on Tuesday it had raised Can$280M to help bring its lithium mine to production. Nemaska sold off on the news, declining 15% today to 98 ...
24 May 2018. Chilean company Cerro Dominador have announced the signing of a $758 million deal to finance the first combined concentrated solar power-PV project in Latin America – a 210 MW scheme in ...
22 May 2018. Burlington, MA-based Keurig Green Mountain Inc. unveiled plans for a new, $350 million roasting and packaging facility in South Carolina on Friday that will support the firm’s production ...
21 May 2018. Farmer-owned cooperative Superior Ag plans to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday to mark the opening of its new, $20 million feed mill in Dale, IN before the site becomes officially ...
17 May 2018. The Chinese-Canadian solar company reached commercial operation for the plant just in time to still benefit from the state of Karnataka’s lucrative incentives programme. Open access rules ...
10 May 2018. With a total capacity of 17 megawatts, the two projects will be in operation in Jericho and Tubas by end of the year 2018. Those two PV plants will be connected to the electricity distribution ...
25 April 2018. Taiwan-based petrochemical giant Formosa Petrochemical Corp has selected St. James Parish in Louisiana for a US$9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex, the office of Louisiana Gov. ...
25 April 2018. IBC Solar has completed the installation of a 27 MW solar PV plant in the state of Odisha, while Sunsure Energy installed 20 MW across two plants in Karnataka.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/04/24/india-utility-scale-solar-plants-completed-in-odisha-karnataka ...
23 April 2018. The project, to be developed in the province of San Juan, was selected by the Argentinean government in the second auction round (Ronda 1.5) of the RenovAr program for large-scale renewable ...
16 April 2018. According to Vattenfall, two offshore wind industry firsts have been achieved over the past two weeks in Scotland. On Monday, April 9, the company announced that it successfully installed ...
15 April 2018. Spanish energy company Gas Natural Fenosa has announced that construction is underway on the 49 MW La Nava PV project, the company’s first solar project in Spain’s central region of Ciudad ...
15 April 2018. The Turkish solar company is planning to set up the manufacturing facility in the Bor Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) of Niğde, in Central Anatolia.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/04/13/ekore-plans-1-gw-vertically-integrated-pv-factory-in-turkey ...
14 April 2018. ACCIONA Energia announced this week that it will build its ninth wind farm in the United States with the development of the 145 megawatt (MW) Palmas Atlas wind farm in Texas, its second ...
12 April 2018. Enel Green Power North America has begun construction of its 185 megawatt (MW) HillTopper wind farm, its first in Illinois, which has already signed Power Purchase Agreements with two ...
10 April 2018. France’s oil major Total and Saudi Aramco signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding to build a giant petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which will see total investments ...
11 April 2018. Two concentrated solar thermal power projects located in Africa and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have made progress toward commercial operation in recent weeks.
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11 April 2018. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced this week that it has been awarded the contract to build what it is calling a “pioneering” 194 megawatt (MW) onshore wind farm in the south of ...
21 March 2018. The Spanish renewable energy project developer Acciona has started construction on three large-scale PV power plants in Egypt in cooperation with Saudi investment firm Swicorp.
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21 March 2018. The Export-Import Bank of China has approved a US$1.3 billion financing package for Guinea's Souapiti hydropower plant, capping what the African country's government calls two years of ...
26 February 2018. BAIC Motor Corp. and Daimler AG plan to build a factory in China for Mercedes-Benz vehicles to meet growing demand as the German automaker deepens its ties with the country.
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22 February 2018. The mayor of the Spanish municipality of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Ana Isabel Jiménez and the CEO of BayWa r.e. Solar Projects, Benedikt Ortmann have signed an agreement for the construction ...
21 January 2018. One of the world’s leading wind turbine manufacturers, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, announced on Thursday that it had signed two agreements in the United States to supply wind turbines ...
21 January 2018. The Ten Merina solar facility was built by Engie’s subsidiary, Solairedirect. The project was financed by French investment firm, Meridiam and Proparco.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/01/17/senegal-commissions-another-30-mw-solar-park ...
10 January 2018. Entidad Binacional Yacyretá (EBY) is accepting public tenders for work to add a 270-MW powerhouse to the existing 3.2-GW Yacyretá project. Yacyreta is a multipurpose dam on the Parana ...
9 January 2018. Energiya Global Capital, which is an Israel-based research & development group, and Netherlands-based solar project developer, Gigawatt Global are planning to build solar parks at ...
3 January 2018. The Chinese solar company won the right to develop 104 MWp of PV through a partnership with Mitsui & Co., in the third long-term auction held in Mexico last month.
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14 December 2017. The AFD will provide around 32.8 billion CFA franc in funds for the 25 MW projects, while the EU will contribute the remaining 6.6 billion CFA franc.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/12/13/france-and-eu-finance-benins-first-solar-power-plant ...
23 November 2017. The 100-megawatt battery in South Australia is designed to provide security to the state's electricity grid. It will store enough energy to power 30,000 homes for about an hour.
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23 November 2017. The three solar plants are located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, where the Singapore-based renewable energy developer’s solar portfolio now comprises 10 operational PV plants, and another ...
21 November 2017. Work on the first phase of a planned 220 MW solar PV plant is underway in Myanmar, according to Basic Energy Corporation.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/11/21/work-on-220-mw-myanmar-pv-project-underway ...
21 November 2017. India and the World Bank have signed a guarantee agreement of $98 million provided through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and Clean Technology Fund ...
18 November 2017. Yingli Solar has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Yingli Energy Company Limited is to develop a 100 MW “Top Runner” solar project in Wuhai City, in China’s Inner Mongolia ...
14 November 2017. It is perhaps the worry of missing the ambitious renewable energy target that the Indian government has floated the idea of launching the world’s largest solar power tender.
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8 November 2017. Sterling & Wilson, an India-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services provider for infrastructure and energy sectors, has announced it plans to construct 500MW ...
2 November 2017. TPREL, Tata Power’s 100% owned renewable energy subsidiary, has commissioned a 30 MW solar plant, spread over 140 acres in Palaswade village in Maan Taluka, in Satara district located ...
31 October 2017. Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium domestically as part of its nuclear power program and sees this as a step towards “self-sufficiency” in producing atomic fuel, a senior official ...
29 October 2017. Italian solar company Enerray, through its local partnership EB Solaire, has announced plans to develop a 30 MW PV project at a site in Northern Cameroon.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/10/27/enerray-to-develop-30-mw-project-in-cameroon ...
27 October 2017. The Neyveli-based company will build several 50-100 MW solar plants in the Aruppukottai area of Virudhunagar district, roughly 50 km south of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, according to The ...
25 October 2017. The Saudi Electricity Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Public Investment Fund and Softbank Vision Fund to create 3 GW of solar and storage capacity in the Kingdom ...
21 October 2017. Energy developer Platinum Power SA has pre-qualified seven consortia for the design and construction of a 365 MW hydropower plant near Makay, Cameroon.
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20 October 2017. Government-owned mining and coal-based energy producer NLC India is building the country’s first utility-scale solar plant with a battery energy storage in the Andaman & Nicobar ...
19 October 2017. Senegalese government issues open tender for solar projects with a combined storage capacity of 100 MW in the Diourbel, Kaoack, and Fatick regions of the country.
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18 October 2017. Orange Renewable, a 100% subsidiary of Singapore-based AT Holdings Pte. Ltd successfully commissioned a total capacity of 140 MW Solar PV Projects in the state of Gujarat and Maharashtra. ...
17 October 2017. State-owned Belarusian oil company Belorusneft has finalized its 55 MW solar project more than three years after the initial announcement.
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/10/16/belaruss-biggest-pv-plant-comes-online ...
13 October 2017. India is well on track to its planned 100 gigawatts solar-power generation capacity by 2022. The biggest problem country is facing with solar plant installations is requirement of huge ...
12 October 2017. Nevada-based Ormat Technologies this week said that the second unit of the Sarulla geothermal power plant in North Sumatra has begun commercial operation.
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http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2017/10/second-unit-now-online-at-sarulla-geothermal-plant.html ...