First Solar seals three US solar project deal with EDPR and ConnectGen
by Darius Snieckus
17 Dec 2019 at 7:10am
In-construction Sun Streams 1, Windhub A and Sunshine Valley PV farms will generate 278MW once online

Wind could surge to 32GW in main Texas grid in 2020
by Richard A. Kessler in Fort Worth
17 Dec 2019 at 6:07am
Amid growing demand for electric power, much will depend on how many projects in the interconnection queue can get built over the next 13 months

Investor buys majority of big US wind portfolio from Enel and GE
by Andrew Lee
17 Dec 2019 at 5:28am
Italian group to retain minority shareholding after 80% of 812MW of operating projects is bought by Gulf Pacific Power

China's wind repowering market heading for 20GW-plus boom decade
by Darius Snieckus
17 Dec 2019 at 12:29am
Wood Mackenzie forecast sees cost of older generation fleet and declining availability of rich wind sites fuelling rapid growth

German lawmakers raise planned lead-off CO2 levy to $28/tonne
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
16 Dec 2019 at 7:12am
Receipts from the levy are slated to be used to subsidise a surcharge on renewable energy (EEG surcharge)

Lincoln Clean Energy completes name change to Orsted
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
16 Dec 2019 at 5:21am
The US unit of the Danish utility has doubled its operational capacity to 1GW since it was taken over by Orsted in 2018

Enercon to supply Chile?s biggest wind project with quake-proof towers
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
16 Dec 2019 at 2:52am
The German turbine OEM signs an exclusivity agreement to provide EP5 turbines for the 607MW Horizonte project in the Atacama Desert

China's Ming Yang in $243m bond issue to aid 10MW wind turbine push
by Yuki Yu in Beijing
16 Dec 2019 at 12:10am
OEM will spend part of the proceeds on advancing double-digit turbine ambitions, filing shows

Maryland to probe impacts from offshore wind projects' bigger turbines
by Richard A. Kessler in Fort Worth
13 Dec 2019 at 1:54pm
State's Public Service Commission finds decisions by US Wind and Orsted to employ larger machines constitute 'material changes' to developments

VW-backed Northvolt plans to use 50% recycled cells at gigafactory
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
13 Dec 2019 at 7:53am
The Swedish technology start-up plans a pilot recycling plant in 2020 and a larger facility at its gigafactory in 2022

Distance rule scrapped from German coal exit law draft
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
13 Dec 2019 at 6:36am
Chancellor Merkel?s cabinet next week is slated to approve the proposal but it is unclear whether the distance rule may reappear later

Wind becomes Germany?s biggest power source in 2019
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
13 Dec 2019 at 3:58am
Wind power accounts for 24% of electricity production in Europe?s biggest economy, overtaking lignite

LatAm solar flagship signs five-year deal to power electric vehicles
by Alexandre Spatuzza
13 Dec 2019 at 2:31am
Region's first CSP-PV hybrid is ready to start full operations in mid-2020 with a long-term corporate PPA in place

EU bank signs deals to back nine Spanish solar plants
by Christopher Hopson
13 Dec 2019 at 1:42am
European Investment Bank to provide ?66m to co-finance construction of 436MW of new PV projects

Nordex ramps up output in Spain as German capacity hits limit
by Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
13 Dec 2019 at 1:38am
The German-Spanish wind OEM will produce more than 1GW of Delta4000 wind turbines in Spain from 2020 on