News Ferrovial to build floating solar plant near Madrid Ferrovial will design and build a 1.7-megawatt floating solar plant on the lower reservoir of the Santa Lucía Hydroelectric Power Plant in Torrelaguna, Madrid, for €2.1m. Public utility Canal de…
News World Bank invests $300m in West African solar The World Bank has approved a $311m finance package to support renewable energy generation in Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Chad. The bank said the loans will be spent on…
Innovation European Space Agency to probe solar power from space It’s a small step, but it could start an incredible journey. Today, the ministerial council of the European Space Agency (ESA) said it would proceed with a feasibility study into…
News French law to require solar canopies in parking lots The French government will legislate to require car parks with 80 or more spaces to install solar panels in a move it says could generate up to 11GW of electricity.…
News Sweden’s Vattenfall to turn Dutch motorway into solar farm Swedish energy utility Vattenfall has revealed plans to install solar panels on public land along the A6 motorway near the Dutch city of Almere, just outside Amsterdam, PV Magazine reports.…
Perspectives Solar panels on superstore roofs would power 8 million US homes, so why don’t they do it? If retailers and developers in the US put photovoltaic panels on the roofs of some 100,000 thousand existing malls and superstores across the country, it could generate 84.4 terawatt-hours (TWh)…