Julia Chan

The government of Indonesia is reportedly planning to issue a tender next month seeking bids to install 150MW worth of PV plants in the country.

Ideematec, a German manufacturer of tracking and mounting systems, has delivered 6,000 safeTrack Vertec azimuth tracking systems for installation at two PV facilities in South Africa which have a combined capacity of 33MW.

Spanish solar developer Solarpack has commenced construction on two PV plants with a combined capacity of 25MW for Chilean mining company Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi.

Solar Frontier and Japanese quarry operator Yano Industry have connected two solar power plants in Kunitomi, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan, which have a combined capacity of 3.3MW.

Sunpreme, a solar power producer headquartered in California, US, has completed, it claims, the largest commercial rooftop PV installation in Punjab, India.

Sempra US Gas & Power, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has commenced construction on its utility-scale Copper Mountain Solar 3 project.

The government of Uruguay will celebrate the country’s first solar power plant at an inauguration ceremony due to be held later today.

PV developer SolarCity will add Barstow Unified School District (BUSD) in California, US, to its solar portfolio by installing 1.5MW of PV systems for the school district.

Indian PV project developer Welspun Energy has confirmed to PV-Tech that it has commissioned its 50MW solar project in the Indian state of Rajasthan ahead of schedule.

Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (TANGEDCO), a state-owned energy firm, will be required to provide new net meters for households with rooftop PV systems installed under Tamil Nadu’s net metering scheme.