India’s newly-formed Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) will hold a public hearing regarding the case on whether to impose Safeguard Duties on imports of solar cells and modules on 26 June in New Delhi.
India updates quality control order, MNRE to develop construction standards for rooftop and off-grid PV, India nears 22GW solar capacity, Solar park developer rules updated.
Energy Networks Australia (ENA) has pushed for a more consistent approach to grid connections of solar PV and battery storage by issuing a set of guidelines.
A total of 17 European associations have called on policymakers to reintroduce the debate around priority dispatch and balancing responsibility for small-scale renewable installations, while ten energy intensive heavyweights want a framework on C&I self-consumption of renewables.
New York-based fixed tilt and solar racking manufacturer GameChange Solar has added eight additional manufacturing lines, bringing its US capacity for fixed-tilt mounting and PV trackers to a combined 6GW.
NV Energy has chosen US-based developer 8minutenergy Renewables to develop the 300MW(AC) Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar Farm in Clark County, Nevada, next to a retiring coal plant.
Indian solar developer Azure Power has secured US$135 million in debt financing for 200MW of rooftop PV projects across India from a consortium of development finance institutions.
Neoen closes finance for 51MW Jamaica solar park, Enel starts production at Australia’s largest Solar PV Project, Vikram Solar commissions 10MW solar project in Madhya Pradesh.
Close on heels of its recent announcement on forming a new global unit focused on the hybrid and energy storage market, Indian EPC Sterling and Wilson has won a captive solar-diesel-storage microgrid project in Africa. PV Tech caught up with Vish Iyer, global head of business development, strategy and marketing for the Hybrid and Energy Storage division at Sterling and Wilson, to find out more.
Indian EPC firm Sterling and Wilson has won its first large-scale hybrid and energy storage turnkey EPC contract order in Western Africa, including what it believes to be both the largest battery storage project and single battery installation in the whole continent.
