Joint Venture to Invest Up to $1.5 Billion to Scale Vertically Integrated Production of American-Made Solar Vikram Solar, Phalanx Impact Partners , and Das & Co. have formed a new US joint venture and majority US-owned and operated company – VSK Energy LLC – with plans to invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the United States. With two planned projects, VSK extends Vikram Solar's 17 years of solar manufacturing experience to the United States with financial support from sustainability-focused private equity firm Phalanx Impact Partners and Das & Co.'s extensive network and expertise in the solar industry in the United States, India, and emerging markets. | TNB Renewables and TNB Research Signed LOI With SolarDuck and Hydro As part of the global roll out of Offshore Floating Solar, SolarDuck AS together with its project partners, TNB Renewables Sdn Bhd and TNB Research Sdn Bhd , wholly owned subsidiaries of Tenaga Nasional Berhad and Hydro Extrusion Norway AS, a leading aluminum and energy company, announced an exciting new project in Malaysia. | DSD partnering with Rutgers University to install 14.5 MW of solar parking lot DSD Renewables (DSD) has been selected by Rutgers University to install 16 solar carport canopies, totaling 14.5 MW, in parking lots across the university's multiple campuses. It is the first major sustainability initiative to be rolled out since the University President, Jonathan Holloway, announced the university's commitment to a Climate Action Plan in September 2021. | PV Solar Cell Race Car Sponsorship Sees Seaward Power Ahead Electrical test and measurement company Seaward is racing ahead after announcing a new deal to sponsor the development of a solar powered electric race car. The Peterlee company is linking-up with Sweden's Chalmers Solar Team in a move that will see it provide a PV200 solar PV installation tester as part of a Gold level sponsorship and vehicle branding package for the 2023 season. | NREL awards $2M to support development of more efficient cadmium telluride solar cells Sweden Companies sign PPA to build Sweden's largest solar farm Octopus Energy creates solar street with East London community Singapore REC launches new corporate laboratory for next generation PV in Singapore DSD receives $140 million development and procurement financing BayWa r.e. and Meyer Burger Strengthen Partnership Millikan Boats: Revolutionizing Sailing With Solar-Powered Catamarans Panorama US DOE Funds Synhelion to Scale Up Solar Thermal Hydrogen A joint project of Synhelion and its partner, University of Florida, has been awarded $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The project aims to accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) technology to produce green hydrogen for industrial decarbonization and electric power generation and storage. | CVS Health Accelerates Sustainability Commitments with Renewable Energy Purchases DNV assists delivery of largest solar and storage project in western Pacific Accelerating solar-plus-storage key to boosting the efficiency and resilience of global energy networks Storage Pacifico Energy Begins Operation of Large Scale ESS in Kyushu and Hokkaido Pacifico Energy K.K. has begun commercial operations for two Energy Storage System (ESS) facilities developed by the company in Itoshima City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Sapporo City, Hokkaido. These projects, which began operating in June 2023, mark a significant milestone as Japan's first large-scale grid-connected ESS facilities involved in market bidding (Projects that are not co-located with attached to an existing power source and are commercially viable through market trading of ESS services.) | Agenda ISES Solar World Congress 22nd Wind & Solar Integration Workshop |