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Solar Power As CSR Lights Up Temple In Sri Lanka Now

Sri Lanka, which otherwise has very good weather conditions for solar power generation, is finally changing, and changing fast. Close on the heels of the government making plans to ramp up renewable energy generation from solar and wind, comes this story of a firm using Solar energy as a CSR initiative at a temple. Rooftop […]

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Report Highlights Risks From Inaccurate Irradiation Data To Solar Projects In Africa

A recent report developed by a solar electricity provider to African enterprises, CrossBoundary Energy (CBE), says that Data irregularities in estimating solar production can have significant impacts on both technical teams and solar buyers. Solar production/ solar irradiation is the measurement of how much sunlight shines in each location and therefore how much electricity a […]

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Lightsource bp Raises Euro 52M For 100MW Solar Projects in Spain

European solar developer Lightsource bp has successfully raised a Euro 52 million term loan from leading financial backers for its Barrica solar projects in the Aragon region of Spain, giving the green light for construction to begin on two 49.5MWp solar sites.   Leading financial backers include Banco Sabadell, Natwest, Santander, and Intesa Sanpaolo, which provided the necessary financial […]

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JinkoSolar’s Q1 FY21 Results. Key Highlights And Guidance For the Future

One of the largest solar module manufacturers from China,  JinkoSolar, announced a mixed set of  unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021 (Q1 FY2021). The company has received total revenues in the Q1 Fy2021 were RMB7.94 billion (USD 1.21 billion), a decrease of 15.7percent from RMB9.42 billion in the Q4 FY2020 […]

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Lightsource bp Invests in 703 MW Spanish Solar Projects

Europe’s largest solar developer Lightsource bp has invested 475 million euros (USD 566 million) to acquire a pipeline of three solar projects in Spain from Spanish company Grupo Jorge. The three projects totaling 703 MW are located in Aragon. Aragon is a landlocked region in northeastern Spain comprising the provinces of Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. […]

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Lightsource BP to Invest €900 mn in Portugal to Build 1.3 GW Solar Plants

London-based solar power developer Lightsource bp, a 50:50 joint venture with oil and gas company bp, recently announced that it has partnered with Portuguese local company INSUN to build five large-scale solar plants in Portugal, which are expected to add over 1.35 GW of low-carbon, renewable power to Portugal’s energy mix. The company plans to […]

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Lightsource bp Acquires Solar Projects Totalling 156 MWp in Italy

Lightsource bp in Italy continues to boost its utility scale solar portfolio by acquiring three projects from Horizon Firm, a trusted developer specialized in solar, totalling 156MWp across the country. Two of the projects are based in Sicily, in a low solar plant massification density area, in the province of Agrigento: the Canicattì project (40.9 MWp) and the Torre di Mastro project (58.2 MWp). The third project, Manfredonia (57.4 MWp), based in Apulia, will be developed as an Agri-PV with the aim of virtuously integrating agriculture and […]

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Lightsource bp Acquires 845 MW Solar Portfolio in Spain

Lightsource bp has announced the acquisition of an 845 MW solar portfolio in Spain from Iberia Solar Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, has announced the acquisition of an 845 megawatt (MW) solar portfolio in Spain from Iberia Solar, a local solar developer and part of the […]

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Budget 2021 Highlights For Solar Sector

In a budget speech that will eventually be termed as focused on fire-fighting and consolidating reforms, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced her budget today. For the solar sector, the big shock is undoubtedly the increase in customs duty on solar inverters from 20 percent. Including inverters, which have a much smaller share in overall project […]

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