A terminal at Dalaman Airport in southwestern Turkey has become the first to fulfil its electricity needs through solar power generated on site. Rooftop photovoltaic panels are able to generate…

The Polish arm of German EPC company Goldbeck Solar has signed a contract to build one of Europe’s largest solar farms, the 722MWp-capacity Sidłowo-Kikowo-Dobrowo power plant in northwest Poland. The…

Saudi capital Riyadh could generate 17,500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity a year – 40.7% of its annual consumption – if it put solar panels on 158 sq km of…

Energy firm Doral Renewables has picked Bechtel to design and build the Cold Creek solar power and energy storage project in Schleicher and Tom Green counties, Texas. The facility will…

In a bid to match the electricity European customers use to power their phones and computers, Apple says it will add 650MW solar and wind projects in Europe by 2030.…

Ferrovial will build three photovoltaic plants in Spain’s Murcia region for TotalEnergies and Soltec, and will operate them for the first two years. The plants will have a total capacity…

Building big, utility scale solar farms is extremely labour intensive. Workers have to lift many thousands of heavy panels, placing them carefully for installation. In the US, contractors struggle to…

Swiss telecoms company Leuk TDC has turned two obsolete satellite dishes on its land into sun-tracking solar power plants to help power its data centre. Building technology specialist CKW installed…

US renewable power developer Doral Renewables has picked Bechtel to deliver three phases of its 1.3GW Mammoth Solar farm in Indiana, set to boost the state’s solar capacity by 20%.…

Solar power developer Hecate Energy has started to build what will be the US’ biggest solar farm on 10,300 acres at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, The New…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has won a competition to design an opera and ballet theatre in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The 42,395 sq m timber structure will be…

Tokyo’s government has ruled that beginning in April, detached new-builds above a certain size should be fitted with photovoltaic panels and thermal insulation. This rule will apply to about 50…

US engineer Bechtel has begun work on a 226MW solar farm in Lincoln County, Nevada. The facilities’ 389,000 panels will be located on a 900-acre plot, and will produce energy…

Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…

China is planning to build a solar farm in space, a project that one scientist likened to recreating the Three Gorges hydroelectric project in a geostationary orbit, South China Morning…

US engineer Jacobs will help build a $3.3bn, 3.5GW solar farm and a 4.5GW battery system in the Philippines to help it cut its dependence on coal for power generation.…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…

China Energy Investments today connected the first instalment of its 1GW offshore solar farm to the grid. Lying some 8km off the coast of Kenli District in Shandong Province, northeast…