Renewable Energy

Germany’s monthly installations for solar PV dropped compared to previous months to 1.056 GW.

US utility Xcel Energy is set to expand the annual installed capacity of Sherco Solar Project in Minnesota to 710 MW.

Photovoltaic-thermal solar modules (PVT) producer Sunmaxx is building in Germany what it believes is the world’s largest module production facility for these modules.

EDP Renewables (EDPR) has commissioned its largest European solar PV plant with 200 MW DC/153 MW AC capacity, in Poland.

A consortium led by Q ENERGY plans to begin construction of a 74.3 MW floating PV plant in France.

The State of Colorado in the US is expected to add 9.5 GW additional utility scale clean energy capacity by 2030.

Denmark’s Eurowind Energy and Austria’s Renalfa IPP have started construction of what they term is the 1st hybrid renewable energy complex in Bulgaria.

CleanCapital’s 8.5 MW solar plant in Alaska is contracted to sell power generated to Matanuska Electric Association.

A 150-kW floating solar project has been commissioned in Armenian capital Yerevan.

Deutsche Bank led the financing for IGNIS to help develop its 500 MW solar portfolio in Spain.

Brandenburg wants to explore distributed generation applications such as floating PV, agrivoltaics and rooftop PV to achieve its targeted solar capacity under Energy Strategy.

Solar module prices have never fallen so sharply in such a short period of time. One reason for this is the “PV module glut” in warehouses in Europe, according to pvXchange’s Martin Schachinger.

Germany advanced its hydrogen ambitions this week with a fresh call for the International Green Hydrogen Promotion Program in Latin America.

German PV analyst Karl-Heinz Remmers looks at current price trends in the global and European PV industry. The figures he provides could explain how overcapacity and warehouses full of PV modules are affecting market prices.

Marathon Capital is looking for interested buyers for Redeux Energy’s 11-project solar and storage portfolio.