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ACWA Achieves Financial Close for 200 MW Kom Ombo Solar Project in Egypt

ACWA Power, has announced the financial close for the 200 MW Kom Ombo project, a utility-scale solar power plant in Egypt.With an overall investment cost of US$…

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Solegreen to Deploy 210 MW/470 MWh of Solar-Plus-Storage in Israel

Solegreen plans to deploy 210 MW/470 MWh of solar-plus-storage in Israel, through a project selected by the Israeli authorities in a 2020 tender. The facilities…

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Photon Energy Connects to the Grid Two New Solar Power Plants in Romania

Photon Energy, a renewable energy producer listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Prague Stock Exchange, has completed and grid-connected two photovoltaic (PV)…

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Tata Power Inks Pact With Sanyo Special Steel Manufacturing to Set Up 28-Mw Solar Plant

Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) has partnered with Sanyo Special Steel Manufacturing India Private Limited (SSMI) to set up a 28.12-megawatt green e…

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Chint Secures Approval to Build 100 MW of Solar in Bangladesh

Chint Solar BD, the Bangladeshi subsidiary of China's Chint, has secured the approval for the construction of a 100 MW solar power plant in northern Banglad…

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Singapore's Bila Solar to Invest $35 Million in Indianapolis Manufacturing Plant

Bila Solar, a solar module manufacturer based in Singapore, announced plans to invest upwards of $35 million in a new module manufacturing facility in Indianapo…

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Las Vegas Sphere Could Soon Get Most of Its Power From Solar and Battery Storage

(Photo by Tomás Del Coro on Flickr)Sphere Entertainment Co. announced it has submitted a 25-year agreement with NV Energy, the primary electric utility i…

Battery

Battery Storage Could Lower the Cost of Grid Infrastructure, Says Developers

A Harmony Energy BESS project. Image: Harmony Energy.Last week, Solar Power Portal’s sister publication Current± released a blog discussing how bat…

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FRV Australia Secures Three New Solar Sites in New Zealand

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures Australia (FRV), a leading developer of sustainable energy solutions, and part of Abdul Latif Jameel Energy and OMERS, has further …

Photovoltaic （PV）

Agrivoltaics to Save US Farmland From Buildings

Solar arrays on farmland have provoked a firestorm of controversy in some parts of the US. Partly fueled by misinformation about climate change, opponents argue…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Column: India's Massive Renewables Deployment Helps Meet Record Power Demand

FILE PHOTO: Workers clean panels at a solar park in Modhera, India's first round-the-clock solar-powered village, in the western state of Gujarat, India, Oc…

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MSG Sphere Announces Plan to Power 70% Of Las Vegas Arena With Renewable Energy, Pending Approval

About 70% of the Las Vegas MSG Sphere's energy could be supplied by solar power.Sphere Entertainment, the company behind the entertainment arena that displa…

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Mix of Renewable Energy Sources Provided More Than of Quarter of U.S. Electrical Generation in First Half of 2023 as Solar Out-Produced Hydropower in June.

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy …

Photovoltaic （PV）

Construction of a Photovoltaic Plant Starts in Texas to Supply Solar Power to Facebook

Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid has begun construction of the 240 MW True North photovoltaic plant in Falls County (Texas). It will supply clean, renew…

Natural Gas

Australia's APA Group to Buy Local Energy Supplier's Pilbara Assets for $1.1 Bln

Australia's APA Group (APA.AX) said on Wednesday it would acquire Alinta Energy's power assets in the Pilbara region for a deal valued at A$1.72 billion…