The Bolivian government has chosen German engineering firm DEEA Solutions to carry out a feasibility study for what would be the country’s first grid-connected PV power plant.
Alternative energy firm Coronal Group has purchased the majority of the assets from HelioSage Energy and has founded Coronal Development Services — establishing a solar development solutions company available to clients in North America.
Chinese PV manufacturer Zhongli Talesun has officially started construction of a 500MW integrated solar cell and modules assembly plant in the Thai-China Industrial Park in Rayong, Thailand.
Inverter manufacturers face a growing but increasingly tough market over the next four years characterised by cost pressures and ever tighter margins, GTM Research claims.
Waaree Energies, one of India’s largest PV module manufacturers, is significantly adding capacity to meet demand. Having already expanded capacity to 500MW it now plans to double that to 1GW over the next four months.
Scatec Solar has reported a second quarter of strong revenue growth off the back of a 54% increase in power production from its growing fleet of operational PV plants.
PV systems provider First Solar has announced that multinational technology giant Apple has committed US$848 million for First Solar’s California Flats Solar Project in Monterey County, California.
