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Solar Farm Pelted by Giant Hail as Severe Storm Ripped Through Nebraska

Hail severely damaged a solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska on June 23, 2023. (Courtesy: Nebraska Public Power District)A solar farm in Nebraska suffered signif…

Rooftop Solar

50MW Solar Farm to Power Ovo Energy Following New PPA

A total of £38 million will be invested by the company over a 12-month period to acquire and construct the solar project. Image: Unsplash.OVO Energy has s…

Solar Power Plant

UK Government Grants Development Consent Order for Edf Renewables' First UK Solar Farm in Essex

Image: EDF RenewablesThe Secretary of State for Energy Security has granted development consent for a 50MW solar and battery storage farm to be built by EDF Ren…

Solar Panel

'First of Its Kind' 50MW Solar Park Inaugurated via Corporate Ppa With City of London Corporation

The solar park is set to have the capacity to power have of the City of London Corporation’s electricity needs. Image: Voltalia.Last week (16 June), saw V…

Energy Storage Project

Australian Utility AGL Unveils New Big Batteries

AGL has added three new grid-scale batteries and a 200 MW solar farm to its development pipeline as it shifts its energy portfolio from high-emission, coal-fire…

Solar Technology

Centrica Opens First UK Solar Farm

Power generation is underway at Codford solar farm, the first newly-built solar farm owned and operated by Centrica, under the company’s plans to build ou…

Solar Panel

Ørsted Commits to Reuse or Recycle All Solar Panels

Ørsted is the world’s first energy developer to commit to reuse or recycle all solar panels from its global portfolio of solar farms with immediate…

Photovoltaic （PV）

New South Wales Approves Bess Capacity Expansion at Australia’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm

The government of New South Wales has approved plans to increase the maximum sizing of a battery storage system at what could be Australia’s largest proje…

Energy Storage Project

South Africa’s Power Blackouts: Solutions Lie in Solar Farms, Battery Storage at Scale, and an End to State Monopoly

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainRolling blackouts are costing South Africa dearly. The electricity crisis is a barrier to growth, destroys investor confidence …

Solar Power Plant

Major UK Solar Farm Portfolio Put Up for Sale Following Toucan’s Collapse

Image: ShutterstockThe administrators appointed to oversee Toucan Energy Holdings 1 Limited (TEH1) have officially commenced the sales process for the company&r…

Solar Power Plant

First Major Solar Farm to Be Added to a Big Battery Starts Operations in Australia

The first big solar farm to be added to an existing big battery facility in Australia has started operations, with the first injections of power from the Wandoa…

Solar Power Plant

PPAs Signed For $3BN Trio of Solar Farms in Saudi Arabia

Image credit: [klotz]©123RF.comThree new solar projects with a combined value of $3.25 billion are to be built in Saudi Arabia.Saudi energy company ACWA Po…

Solar Power Plant

Building Nature-Friendly Solar Parks

Hungarian company SolServices has published a white paper outlining ways to make solar farms more compatible with nature and wildlife, from insects and amphibia…

Solar Power Plant

Burundi Celebrates First Grid-Connected Solar Farm and Pledges to Grow Capacity

Burundi President, Évariste Ndayishimiye, expressed his approval to expand Gigawatt Global's 7.5MW solar field. He is flanked by Dr. Ir. Major Jean Albert …

Netherlands

First Offshore Solar Farm in High Wave Conditions Planned for Hollandse Kust Noord

Image: Oceans of EnergyOffshore solar developer Oceans of Energy has won a contract to install and operate offshore solar inside the Hollandse Kust Noord offsho…