Author name: David Ryabchikov

BRIGHT FUTURE: Sale of SA’s first solar IPP is first green shoots of maturing market

BRIGHT FUTURE: Sale of SA’s first solar IPP is first green shoots of maturing market

The Competition Commission’s approval of Gaia’s 10% stake acquisitions in each of the Linde and Kalkbult solar PV plants in the Northern Cape, signals a maturing renewables market that can now transition to institutional investment… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-04-29-sale-of-sas-first-solar-ipp-is-first-green-shoots-of-maturing-market/

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Anker Solix C1000 Power Station Crashes Over 50% Off, Feels Like an Amazon Clearance Sale

Anker Solix C1000 Power Station Crashes Over 50% Off, Feels Like an Amazon Clearance Sale

When the power goes out, what’s your first move? If you’ve ever had a generator for your home, you know how cumbersome and loud that can be. Plus, you still have to have gas. And they’re often in short supply when you’re needing one to go camping or need electricity in any other situation. So

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Nexamp secures US$340 million financing for US distributed solar and energy storage

Nexamp secures US$340 million financing for US distributed solar and energy storage

Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Editors’ Blog , Long Reads The portfolio consists of 39 solar farms with a combined capacity of 150MW. Image: Nexamp. Developer Nexamp has closed a US$340 million private placement debt refinancing for a portfolio of distributed solar and energy storage projects in the US. The portfolio

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Engaging investors amid cyclical investment trends in off-grid solar

Engaging investors amid cyclical investment trends in off-grid solar

While this headline figure makes for ominous reading, the GOGLA report pointed out that this is not a herald of the collapse of the off-grid solar industry. It described some of its conclusions as “promising”, and the slowdown in investment and, particularly, project deployment, is to be expected as the global clean energy industry transitions

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Solar gains across Brazil and Caribbean despite above average rain

Solar gains across Brazil and Caribbean despite above average rain

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Southern Brazil and the northern Andes were irradiance hotspots during March, posting anomalies as high as 30% above the climatological average. The increase came despite intense rainfall causing flooding in other parts of South America. April 25, 2025 Solcast March in

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The Inouye Solar Telescope Can Now Visualize Eruptions on the Sun’s Surface

The Inouye Solar Telescope Can Now Visualize Eruptions on the Sun’s Surface

The most powerful instrument of its kind has now taken its first picture of the sun. Although the Inouye Solar Telescope began operating from its perch on the Hawaiian volcano Haleakala in 2022, the addition of its latest key piece of equipment provides a major boost to its spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution to the

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