Installations

Ceará’s environmental authorities approved three 30 MW solar projects submitted by Steelcons Energy.

Around 96% of the PV projects up to 10 MW selected in Germany’s first auction for large-scale solar has now been completed, according to the country’s grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur.

The latest 500 MW tender by the Solar Corporation of India (SECI) drove the tariffs under INR 2.50 ($ 0.038), making solar cheaper than fossil fuel-generated power.

A unit of the Chinese solar investment and development group will acquire a 100% equity interest in China New Energy Holdings, as part of a complex deal involving solar, wind and hydropower assets.

The Chinese PV behemoth’s panels will be installed at the 15 MW Sunshine Coast Solar Farm in Australia.

Around 3.4 MW of PV systems were installed in Ukraine under its net metering scheme in the first quarter of this year. The scheme was introduced by the Ukrainian government in 2015.

A 1.5 MW project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was commissioned in Nisou. The plant is one of five MW-sized solar projects supported by EBRD in Cyprus.

The BNDES will support a 150 MW solar project being developed by EDF and Canadian Solar in the state of Minas Gerais. The project is scheduled to come online in August 2017.

The Spanish developer has raised $104 million in financing for nine large-scale PV projects spread across India and Chile.

With the sale the yieldco has almost completely divested from the United Kingdom, as its acquisition by Brookfield grinds forward.