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Securum Equity Partners has signed a contract with the Serbian Government to build a 1GW solar park. The contract is a non-binding agreement and consequently includes few concrete details at present, although it has been revealed that the planned site is will cover 3,000 hectares and is likely to be in southern Serbia.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York is now home to one of the US’s largest PV projects. The 32MW Long Island Solar Farm (LISF) was opened in November and its 164,312 panels are expected to produce 50GWh of solar energy per year for the Long Island Power Authority’s electricity grid.
In August 2008, Conergy finished work on Asia’s largest PV project in Sinan, South Korea. Three years, and one capacity expansion, later, the 24MW array is still the largest system in Asia and the continent’s solar standard bearer.
Abengoa has begun ramping up construction on its 280MW CSP Mojave Solar Project after the California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) approved its power purchase agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). Now the regulator has given a green light to the PPA, Abengoa can finally close financing on the US$1.2 billion federal loan it received from the Department of Energy back in July.
Ten months ago, Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi boasted that within five years his state would be the world’s solar capital. At the time the claim seemed fanciful, but on October 13, Gujarat took its first step towards achieving this goal by installing a 30MW PV system in Gunthawada.
Astronergy, a subsidiary of Chint Group, has finished work on a 20MW PV system in Golmud, China. The installation, which is one of the largest in China, takes Astronergy’s portfolio in the country to 60MW.
In early 2011, Moser Baer finished work on India’s first large-scale PV project. The 5MW system is located on 66 acres of private land in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district and is powered by Moser Baer’s amorphous silicon thin-film modules.
Ventus Solaris has submitted an environmental impact assessment for a 110MW PV project near Quillagua in northern Chile. If approved, installation will begin in April 2012, with initial grid connection expected before the year’s end.
Q-Cells has begun building a 91MW PV plant on an abandoned military airbase in Brandenburg-Briest, Germany. When completed, the project, consisting of three parks spanning 200 acres, will be one of the largest in the world.
Work will begin next year on the first phase of the 500MW Desertec concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Morocco. The initial development stage will cost around €600 million and add 150MW of capacity to the yet-to-be-named site.
