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In September 2012 a consortium composed of ACWA Power, Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas and TSK Electrónica y Electricidad became the winning bidder to develop a 160MW CSP plant in Morocco for the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN).
Developed by Silicon Ranch, this 9.5MW facility was opened by car manufacturer Volkswagon (VW) to power its Chattanooga factory in Tennessee.
Developed jointly by Solarpack and Gestamp Solar, the Tacna Solar Park became operational in November 2012.
Abengoa has built and designed a 10MW solar thermal plant for Minera El Tesoro, which is said to represent South America’s first operational solar thermal plant.
In December 2012 Mexico’s largest PV installation completed and became operational.
Believed to be the largest solar project in the Caribbean, the 24MW Ilumina Project is also said to represent the first utility-scale solar array on the island.
In December 2011 Sempra US Gas & Power completed the first phase of the 150MW Copper Mountain Solar 2 PV project in Boulder City, which involved installing 92MW of PV capacity.
NRG Solar’s 25MW Avra Valley Solar PV facility has completed and become operational.
Plans for Africa’s largest PV project have been announced by UK-based Blue Energy. The US$400 million 155MW utility-scale plant will be constructed near the village of Aiwiaso in Western Ghana.
Built on 140,000 square metres of land, IBC Solar has constructed and connected a 5MW PV plant in the small town of Maniago in northern Italy in a record 49 days.
SGI-Mitabu is drawing up plans for a 50MW ground-mounted PV system in Indonesia which will represent the first phase of a proposed 250MW worth of projects in the country. The project will be developed under the company’s One Solar Watt Per Person programme.
A 1MW rooftop PV array is currently under construction atop the Keppel Seghers Ulu Pandan NEWater Plant (UPNP), a wastewater recycling plant in Singapore.
Plans for a 20MW fixed tilt ground-mounted PV systems known as Kirahon Solar Power Project are being developed in the Philippines.
Said to be the largest PV rooftop installation to date, the 571kW PV array was officially inaugurated on June 5 and is located atop the headquarters of Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.
Bangchak Public Petroleum Co. (BPP)’s 44MW PV plant called Sunny Bangchak, has completed and connected to the grid on September 4. Dubbed the largest silicon PV power plant in South East Asia, it is located in Bang Pa-In, Ayutthaya, around 40km from Thailand’s capital city Bangkok.
European PV module manufacturer Bisol Group has announced plans to build a 2MW turnkey PV plant in Kazakhstan for investor Samruk-Energ. The ground mounted and sun-tracking PV system will be located in the city of Kapchagay in Almaty Province.
As the EPC contractor, Martifer Solar has built its first PV plant in Romania in the form of a 1.5MW solar plant located in Pufesti in Vrancea County. The plant will be operated by Danish company Eurowind Energy.
After just one month of construction, EuroEnergy’s 4MW PV project in Argolida province in Greece has been completed by Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) in “record time”.
Inpex Corporation has announced plans to build its first large-scale PV plant. The 2MW project, called Inpex Mega Solar Joetsu, will be located in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and cover a total area of 6,421 square metres on the premises of Teiseki Topping Plant (TTP), a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Parabel’s 40.5MW solar park in Jännersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany, has completed. Parabel will be responsible for the management of the park.
Conergy has completed a 3.4MW solar park in Worpswede, Germany. Built as part of the local project Energiewende Osterholz 2030 (Osterholz Energy Transition 2030), it covers an area of 8 hectares. This solar park represents the fourth PV plant which Conergy has built for German private investor Stephan Johannsen.
In partnership with solar investor Sistema Solare, the building of SolFocus’s solar park in Italy has taken just a month after the company announced that installation of the 1.25MW had finished. Construction began in late June 2012 and the project spans two sites in central Italy; one in Aveani and the other in Savini.
Electrosul has announced that the roof of its headquarters will become home to a 1MW solar park. Its headquarters are located in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
After securing the required finance, Community Energy Solar has begun constructing its Keystone Solar Project in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, US, in partnership with groSolar.
Conergy has completed the installation of its second PV system for BIG Shopping Centre in Beit Shemesh, Israel. The system, which generates a total capacity of 630kW, is built on the rooftop of the shopping centre which covers an area of 18,000 square metres.
The installation of Conergy’s 1.8MW solar project at Aqua Pennsylvania’s Pickering water treatment facility has finished. As a result, the Aqua Pickering Solar Farm will produce 2.3kWh of peak-time energy per year and is expected to generate nearly 50,0000MWh of solar electricity over its lifetime.
GCL-Poly Energy Holdings and China Merchants New Energy are collaborating to invest, develop and construct several solar projects in China which will have a combined capacity of 973MW.
Construction of seven PV plants will soon be underway after Blue Earth secured the exclusive rights to build the projects which are valued at approximately US$15 million. The projects will be constructed on the Hawaiian island Oahu by local trade people. The plants will be primarily ground mounted solar systems and combined, they will generate a total capacity of 3.5MW. Blue Earth’s subsidiary Xnergy will provide the required EPC for the projects.
After securing the required finances, Kyocera has confirmed that the construction of its 70MW PV power plant in Kagoshima City, Japan, will begin in September 2012. The plant will be built on land owned by IHI Corporation and will become Japan’s largest single utility-scale solar power plant.
IKEA has completed the installation of a 912 kW PV system on the rooftop of its store in Frisco, Texas, US, marking the company’s 30th completed solar energy project in the US.
First Solar will begin construction of a 139MW solar power facility, known as the Campo Verde Solar Project, near El Centro in Imperial County, California, US. Construction, which involves installing the company’s advanced thin-film PV modules, will commence during 3Q2012 and is forecast to be completed in 2013.
Installation of rooftop solar panels on Walmart’s College Avenue store in San Diego, California, US, has been completed, helping the company to take one step closer to its target of generating 70 million kWh of renewable energy per year in California. The construction was carried out by SolarCity who will also maintain and manage the solar power system at the site.
Conergy will install three solar power plants for Grimmway Enterprises in the US generating a total of 3.4MW. The plants will be located on three carrot plantations in the Californian Central Valley, in Malaga, Bakersfield, and in Lamont. Construction of the plants, which includes the installation of 4,760 Conergy PM modules, is forecast to be completed by the end of 2012.
Solar Frontier and BELECTRIC have connected what they claim to be the world’s largest CIS thin-film solar power plant in Bochow, Brandenburg, Germany. The project’s investor is CommerzReal and the financing is provided by HypoVereinsbank (HBV) /UniCredit.
NRG Energy, First Solar and MidAmerican Solar have connected the first 100MW of the 290MW Agua Caliente Solar Project to the grid. Owned by NRG Energy and MidAmerican and operated by First Solar, who also designed and constructed the plant in Yuma County, Arizona. Once completed, Agua Caliente will be the largest solar power plant in North America.
SunEdison has connected 25MW to the grid at the Charanka solar park. The plant is part of the Gujarat solar project in the Patan district, aiming to generate a total of 600MW of solar and wind energy, provided by a variety of different developers, once completed. The Charanka park is home to a number of PV facilities by different developers, generating over 200MW in total. SunEdison’s plant is equipped with more than 89,000 PV modules and has been completed in only four months.
The largest European PV park, located in Brandenburg-Briest, has been completed. Q-Cells constructed the 91MW project in just eight weeks. The park, equipped with 383,000 Q-Cells crystalline modules, is divided into three sections: Brandenburg-Briest West and Brandenburg-Briest East, with a combined capacity of 60MW and Briest-Havelsee, generating an additional 31MW. Briest West and Briest East are both owned by Hamburg-based asset management company Luxcara, while Briest-Havelsee is owned by MCG Management in Berlin.
German developer juwi and Chilean company Kaltemp are combining forces to construct the largest solar power plant in Chile to date. The 1.2MW plant is expected to commence production in mid-2012. More than 5,000 modules have been installed on a site of less than two hectares.
Topolov PV is a turnkey PV plant constructed by Day Energy for Daylight Project Solutions, a joint-venture between Chinese Sunlight Group and the Renew Bulgaria Group. The development of the project began in late 2011 and is expected to be completed and connected to the grid in May 2012.
In the former mining region of Thuringia juwi is now constructing the largest solar power plant of the region. Construction of the 20 MW PV plant begins on April 16 and the project is expected to be completed and commence production in June 2012. juwi will install more than 41,000 PV modules on a site near Ronneburg and generate more than 19.7 million kW/h per year.
Kyocera will be heavily involved in the construction of a 70MW solar power plant in Kagoshima, Japan, the company has annouced.
Gehrlicher Solar has announced the construction of a 250MW, ground-mounted solar power plant in the Extremadura region in Spain.
Construction is expected to begin in 2013 and the completion date is 2015.
The local Spanish goevernment and the prime minister of the Extremadura region signed the agreement for the construction.
Kenyon Energy and Tri-City Electrical Contractors have completed a 1.1MW solar system installation for Darden Restaurants at their Restaurant Support Center in Orlando, FL. The largest private roof top solar array in Florida, the system will generate enough power to subsidize 15 to 20 percent of the RSC’s annual usage – the equivalent of taking the campus off the power grid for nearly two months.
Schott Solar and Canopy advised that their 2.2MW Ucciani solar park had been completed. The solar park uses nearly 10,000 Schott PV modules from the company’s Perform Poly series and is connected to the national grid, providing around 2.86GWh of solar energy.
Austin Energy has inaugurated its 30MW solar plant in Webberville, Texas. The system, which went live on December 20, 2011, is the largest active solar project of any public power utility in the country.
Canadian Solar and the Ningxia Electric Power Group have finished work on a 10MW ground-mounted PV system in northwest China. The joint development is part of a larger 50MW plant in the Hongsibao district of Ningxia and will generate around 13.5 million kWh of electricity a year.
SAG Solarstrom has sold its 48MW Serenissima PV plant in Northern Italy to an unnamed institutional investor. The purchase contract, valued “in line with the market rate in the triple-digit million-euro range”, was signed on December 31, 2011 and is subject to the usual conditions precedent.
Activ Solar has finished the fifth and final construction phase of its 100MW Perovo Solar Power Station in Ukraine. This last development stage, completed on December 28, added a further 20MW to capacity, making Perovo Europe’s largest PV system.
The US Department of the Interior has approved NextEra’s proposal to build a 300MW PV system on public land in Maricopa County, Arizona.
German project developer solarhybrid is preparing to start work on its largest PV project to date after Fürstenwalde’s municipal council awarded preliminary planning permission for its 150MW project.
