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Egypt solar plants secure $653mn IFC funding

DUBAI / Reuters International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, on Sunday said it had completed a $653 million debt package to finance building 13 solar power plants near Aswan in Egypt, planned to be part of the largest solar park in the world. Generating up to 752 mega-watts of solar power, the Nubian Suns Feed-in-Tariff ...

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California wind farms get a $3 billion revamp

Bloomberg Even for wind farms, middle age is a time for nips, tucks and sometimes replacement surgery. At least 600 megawatts of US wind farms have already undergone significant upgrades, primarily in California, and NextEra Energy Inc., the largest producer of North American wind power, said it expects to invest as much as $3 billion to upgrade or replace aging ...

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Developers plan wind farms off Jersey shore as Christie era ends

Bloomberg After years of being sidelined by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, wind farm developers are dusting off plans for massive offshore turbines that may someday generate more electricity than a nuclear reactor. Christie, a Republican whose term ends in January, effectively blocked wind farms off his state’s coast by never fully implementing a program that would subsidize the projects. ...

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