Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Many countries and territories have installed significant solar power capacity into their electrical grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources. Solar power plants use one of two technologies:
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry as part of the renewable energy in India. The country's solar installed capacity was 50.303 GW as of 31 January 2022.
Energy in Afghanistan is provided by hydropower followed by fossil fuel and solar power. According to Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), approximately 35% of Afghanistan's population has access to electricity. This covers the major cities in the country. Many rural areas do not have access to 24-hour electricity but this should change after the major CASA-1000 project is completed.
Enviromena is a clean energy technology company in Europe. It has installed more than 17,000 solar systems. The company has over 425 MW of solar power plants under operation and a further 200 MW under construction.
Energy in Jordan describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Jordan. Jordan is among the highest in the world in dependency on foreign energy sources, with 96% of the country's energy needs coming from imported oil and natural gas from neighboring Middle Eastern countries. This complete reliance on foreign oil imports consumes a significant amount of Jordan's GDP. This led the country to plan investments of $15 billion in renewable and nuclear energy. To further address these problems, the National Energy Strategy for 2007-2020 was created which projects to boost reliance on domestic energy sources from 4 per cent to 40 per cent by the end of the decade.
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system designed for the supply of merchant power. They are differentiated from most building-mounted and other decentralised solar power because they supply power at the utility level, rather than to a local user or users. The generic expression utility-scale solar is sometimes used to describe this type of project.
Solar power in Ukraine is obtained from photovoltaics or solar thermal energy. In 2011, 90% of electricity came from nuclear and coal. In order to reduce this, Ukraine adopted a feed-in tariff (FIT) which was one of the highest in the world - UAH 5.0509 per kWh. Europe's largest solar park at the time, the 100 MW Perovo Solar Park was completed at the end of 2011. High feed in tariffs do however run the risk of creating a short term boom in installations followed by a bust and stagnation especially when they remain fixed as was the case of Spain. Installations in Ukraine began to boom in 2018 but there remained a doubt that the expansion would be sustainable and the costs and benefits of the rapid development would be spread unequally.
Bokpoort CSP is a concentrated solar power (CSP) thermal energy power plant, located near Groblershoop in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The project was procured pursuant to the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) program initiated by the South African Department of Energy.
Shams Ma'an Power Plant is a 160 MW photovoltaic power station in Ma'an, Jordan. As of 2018, it is the second largest solar power plant in the region. It was inaugurated on October 8, 2016, as part of Jordan's long-term plan to diversify its energy resources.
Baynouna Solar Power Plant is a 200 MW photovoltaic power station in Amman, Jordan. Construction began in late 2017, and it opened in 2020. The plant is the largest in the country and will produce 4% of Jordan's total electrical energy production, with the project costing around $260 million.
