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Community solar energy developer Community energy plans to collaborate with local nonprofits Trinity services to build five community solar projects totaling 16 MW in the Chicago area. Trinity Services serves more than 6,800 adults and children with intellectual, developmental and mental health needs. More than 120 Trinity Services locations will subscribe to the community solar projects and receive monthly credits on their electric bills. Trinity’s housing units will save 20% of the credit value they receive for 20 years – meaningful, long-term relief for a nonprofit organization whose resources are dedicated to the people it serves. “For Trinity Services, these…

French independent power producer (IPP) Qair has secured debt financing for the 46.51 MWp Brecks Solar Farm in Nottinghamshire.This is the IPP’s first UK project to reach financial close, with construction expected to begin this month. Commercial operations are expected to commence in the second quarter of 2027.Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor INTEC Energy will carry out the construction of the project as well as the operation and maintenance (O&M) work for two years.The project delivered a Contract for Difference (CfD) in the seventh round contracts awarded to a record number of 76 different developersof which 20 secured more…

The new framework for solar self-sufficiency in Abu Dhabi signals something bigger than a regulatory update. It suggests that the next phase of distributed solar in the UAE will not be defined simply by how much rooftop capacity can be installed, but by how intelligently that capacity works with the grid, customer demand, battery storage and long-term electricity planning. This was one of the key takeaways from a recent industry discussion organized by the Middle East Solar Industry Association, which explored what Abu Dhabi’s self-sufficiency framework could mean for distributed solar deployment, storage integration, project economics and future market design.…

Supply chain constraints are reshaping the project design process in Britain. But that’s not the only reason the utility-scale solar development process has evolved, says Patrick Doyle, UK country director at Andalusia-based renewable energy services provider Elmya. This requires multiple possible delivery paths to be assessed in parallel, with resilience and flexibility being increasingly important design criteria.Doyle will join a panel at the Clean Energy Summit 2030which includes the UK Solar Summit 2026 in London at the end of this month, to discuss how developers and service providers are changing their approaches in response to supply chain constraints. The CP2030…

A federal judge has revoked an exclusion that prevented solar and wind energy projects of a certain size from receiving tax benefits through long-standing means for qualification. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated Notice 2025-42, which made solar and wind projects larger than 1.5 MW ineligible for the declining 48E investment and 45Y production tax credits through safe harboring by absorbing 5% of a project’s total cost. Solar and wind projects above that scale were limited to completing a “physical work test” to qualify for the subsidies. Now they can qualify through…

By Martin McConnell June 8, 2026 This week on Projects Weekly, Avangrid’s Tower Solar project in inching closer to energization in Oregon. Further south on the West Coast, EDF Power Solutions and Masdar have inked a 15-year PPA for the BigBeau solar and battery project in California. Foss & Company and Altus Power have closed on tax equity and investment funding for a five-project portfolio on both coasts, and BHI is supplying funding to Origis Energy. Out east, the state of New York has approved the new Fort Edward Solar Project. IKO and affiliate Blair Rubber Co. have completed Seville,…

Direct impact investment platform Ethex becomes official registrar for three ex-Ripple Energy renewable energy generation projects.Members of the cooperatives that own Graig Fatha Wind Co-op, Derril Water Solar Park And Kirk Hill Wind Farm can access information about their investments on Ethex’s dashboard and receive payments for generation at any location.The first co-operative to largely complete the process is Graig Fatha Wind Co-operative, which part-owns a single wind turbine in South Wales. “We are excited to welcome Graig Fatha members to Ethex, provide a solution to members left adrift by the closure of Ripple, and thank CfR and Graig Fatha…

TOYO Co., Ltd. has announced a $357 million capital investment to build a 1.5 GW N-type heterojunction (HJT) solar cell manufacturing facility in the Houston metropolitan area. The project brings together cell manufacturing with the existing module factory in Texas to secure Section 45X tax benefits and create a fully integrated, domestic content-compliant U.S. supply chain. The integration is designed to shorten production cycles from processing raw wafers to finished modules. Engineering, facility design and procurement planning are already underway, with full project completion and first pilot production expected within the next 20 months. Leveraging existing infrastructure at the Houston…

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has agreed to divest a minority stake in its 500MW/1,000MWh Devilla BESS in Scotland to the Scottish National Investment Bank and the Nuclear Liabilities Fund.On behalf of its CI IV fund, CIP has sold a minority stake in the 2-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) project to the two state-owned companies. The Denmark-based investor will retain a majority stake in the project, which is expected to enter service in 2028. The Scottish National Investment Bank is the country’s development bank with a net-zero investment mandate. The Nuclear Liabilities Fund has since been established to cover the…

Grid operators in Lithuania can now disconnect solar power plants from the grid that do not comply with current cybersecurity measures. Lithuania first announced plans to tighten its cybersecurity laws in November 2024, passing legislation that prevented Chinese manufacturers from remotely accessing the country’s solar, storage and wind energy facilities. The legislation, which applies to installations and equipment with a capacity of more than 100 kW, came into effect for new projects on May 1, 2025, with existing sites given until June 1 this year to comply. It requires project owners to comply with cybersecurity requirements, including multi-factor authentication, secure…