US start-up Solarcycle has announced plans to invest $344m in a factory to make glass for solar panels in Cedartown, Georgia. The aim is to make the solar industry more…

A green hydrogen project worth $2.5bn has been submitted for environmental review in Chile. Mejillones Ammonia Energy (MAE) aims to develop the Volta production plant in the Atacama Desert, which…

The small municipality of Utajärvi in central Finland has teamed up with the University of Oulu to work out how to make its own hydrogen to fuel vehicles and industry.…

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has announced plans to install solar panels on 10 million homes in the country. Writing on X, Modi said: “The people of India should have…

Indian conglomerate Adani has secured a loan of $1.36bn from a consortium of banks to build the world’s largest solar and wind park at Khavda in the western state of…

Indoor ski slope SnowWorld Antwerp in Belgium has put 1,452 solar panels on its vast roof. The transformation came about after SnowWorld rented its roof to solar company Energy Vision,…

Ferrovial has installed a 1.7MW floating solar array on the lower reservoir of the century-old Torrelaguna mini hydroelectric plant near Madrid for the city’s water company, Canal de Isabel II…

Construction has begun on an operations centre designed by Dutch architect MVRDV for Taiwan’s state-owned energy supplier Located in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park, near to Taichung City in western…

Cimic Group subsidiary Pacific Partnerships will develop, manage, and operate the 300MWdc Hopeland Solar Farm in Queensland, Australia. The solar farm will have the potential to generate enough electricity to…

The World Bank plans to help fund 1,000 solar power mini grids to bring electricity to the 86 million Nigerians without access to it. Reuters reports that bank president Ajay…

London-based bank Standard Chartered will lend the Angolan Ministry of Finance €1.3bn to build a distribution network for solar generated electricity, Global Trade Review reports. Portuguese engineer MCA Group will…

Renewable energy specialist Masdar has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysian investment company Citaglobal to develop 2GW of solar, wind and energy storage projects. Abu Dhabi-based Masdar said the…

Houston, Texas will get a 100ft-tall sundial that generates solar power next year. The Arco del Tiempo (Arch of Time), set for Houston’s East End neighbourhood, was designed by Italian…

Saudi Arabia has hired Paris-based engineering group Assystem to conduct pre-development studies for seven photovoltaic parks in the Tabuk and Duba regions to power the kingdom’s Neom economic development zone.…

The prototype of an orbital solar power station launched in January has beamed power collected in space to Earth for the first time. The Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD) is…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has been selected by Hong Kong-based electricity and gas company Alinta Energy to install a 35MW one-hour battery storage system in Port Hedland,…

The government of Kyrgyzstan has held talks with Chinese contractors over the construction of a 1GW solar farm in the Central Asian country, news agency AKI Press reports.  Akylbek Japarov,…

John Pagano is CEO of Red Sea Global, developer of The Red Sea and Amaala tourism complexes in Saudi Arabia. Ancient Greeks believed that the god Helios brought light to…