Solar plant

Solar Power Plant

Rio Tinto to Build Solar Plant in Western Australia

Mining giant Rio Tinto has announced plans to build its first solar plant and a lithium-ion battery energy storage system at the Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara,…

Australia’s Renewables Chaos Prompts Solar Exit of top EPC player

The builder of some of Australia’s largest solar plants will not take on any new sector contracts, amid claims that grid fallout and other factors have decimat…

Solar Power Plant

Work Begins on 30 MW Solar Plant in Burkina Faso

French solar project developer Urbasolar – part of the Swiss Axpo Group – has started construction of a 30 MW solar park in Pâ, in the Mouhoun Loop region of…

Solar Company

China Aims to Halve Subsidy Budget for New Solar Plants in 2020

Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.

Solar Power Plant

Total, Marubeni to Invest in 800-Megawatt Qatar Solar Plant

Marubeni Corp. and Total SA agreed to take a minority stake in a 1.7 billion-riyal ($464 million) project to build Qatar’s first solar power plant.

Solar Power Plant

UAE to Build New 500MW Solar Plant

The nation’s Federal Electricity and Water Authority has invited expressions of interest for the development of the photovoltaic clean power plant in Umm Al Qu…

Cooperation case

Chinese TBEA and Emirati AMEA Awarded 100 MW Solar Plant Contract

The Chinese company TBEA Xinjiang New Energy and the Emirati company Amea Power have been awarded the contract to build a 100 MW solar power plant in the govern…

Concentrating Solar Power

New Energy Solar Announces U.S. Solar Farm Completion

Australia’s New Energy Solar has announced construction of the Mount Signal 2 solar plant in California is complete.

AVIOR Energy Inc.

AVIOR develops commercial scale power plants in partnership with government or for private organizations. Currently, AVIOR is finalizing development on a 20MW s…

Saudi Arabia and France Agree to Build Solar Plant Systems

Saudi Arabia’s Al Rushaid Group, whose interests span construction and engineering sectors, signed a joint venture agreement with France’s Optimum Tracker to …

Solar Power Plant

Foresight to Feed EDF from Spanish Sun

Foresight Group is to supply electricity to EDF Trading from the 50MW subsidy-free Guzman solar farm in south-west Spain under a 10-year power purchase agreemen…

Solar Power Plant

ABB Powers Pioneering Floating Solar Plant in Switzerland

ABB has partnered with Romande Energie to supply its inverter solutions for one of the world’s highest floating PV installations, which increases efficiency of…

Solar Power Plant

South Korea Plans World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant in Yellow Sea

The Saemangeum Investment Agency of Koreatogether with Amsterdam Capital Partners, G8 Subsea , and Saemangeum Offshore Wind Powerhave agreed to cooperate toward…

Solar Power Plant

​Saudi Arabia’s 300MW Sakaka PV Solar Plant Connected To Main Grid

The PV facility was completed a month and a half ahead of schedule by Saudi energy company ACWA Power. The project will sell power at $0.0236/kWh.

Microgrid

ACWA Connects Sakaka Solar Plant to Saudi Arabia’s Electricity grid

ACWA Power has successfully connected the Sakaka Solar PV Plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to the national electricity grid.