Canada’s Nunavut territory goes solar
Canada’s largest and northernmost province is set to launch net metering for residential customers.
Solar distributed generation make its entry in Lebanon
The French cable maker Nexans has installed a 600 kW rooftop PV array on the factory of its Lebanese subsidiary Liban Cables. The installation if the first project completed under Lebanon’s Small Decentralized Renewable Energy Power Generation scheme.
Argentina’s future legislation for distributed generation takes shape
The Parliament’s Committee for Energy and Fuels has reached an agreement for a unified text of the net metering scheme that is expected to finally support residential and commercial PV and other distributed generation renewable sources across the country.
Solar brings down power tariff in El Salvador
The price of electricity for the upcoming quarter will be reduced by 3.09% thanks to more production from hydro and the connection to the grid of 60 MW of solar.
Brazil: distributed generation capacity reaches 139.7 MW
Around 69.8% of total distributed generation installed solar power comes from mini-generation PV systems that have a capacity of up to 75 kW.
Netherlands to extend net metering to 2023
The net metering scheme, which was set to expire in 2020, has enabled so far the installation of a residential PV capacity of approximately 1.5 GW.
NRG does (another) u-turn on renewables
The U.S. power giant is embracing a business plan that includes selling 50-100% of its renewables business and yieldco NRG Yield as part of a massive unloading of assets and investments.
Wirsol, Renew Estate team up on 1 GW
Wirsol Energy and Australian developer Renew Estate have agreed to collaborate on a renewables pipeline of more than 1 GW, starting in Australia. The new venture already has 400 MW of utility-scale solar capacity under development and plans to start construction on its first projects by the first quarter of 2018.
Albania sees number of PV projects to compete in upcoming auction increase
Through the auction, which will receive the support of the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction (ERBD), the government hopes to install between 30 MW and 50 MW of solar.
India: TANGEDCO to sign 1.5 GW PPAs at INR 3.47 (~$0.054)/kWh
After its 1.5 GW tender stirred unprecedented interest among developers attracting technical bids of 3.7 GW, the Tamil Nadu utility is now set to sign PPAs at the rate of INR 3.47 (~$0.054)/kWh for a period of 25 years.
