The Japanese subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate, Hanwha Group, has completed a 24MW PV power plant in Kitsuki, Oita prefecture, in the south-west of the country.
Officials in Dubai have doubled the size of a proposed PV plant to 200MW, after receiving what is thought to be the lowest ever per kWh bid for its construction.
Specialist PV equipment supplier RENA, which is in the middle of restructuring efforts, has said its new order intake in the fourth quarter of 2014 totalled €30 million.
The largest US-based PV installer, SolarCity has secured US$200 million in new financing from Credit Suisse to continue the rapid roll-out of the company’s ‘MyPower’ financing vehicle. This takes SolarCity’s financing in 2015 to around US$995 million.
European R&D facility, imec has achieved new solar cell record efficiency for its N-type, monocrystalline n-PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally diffused) process using commercial sized wafers and processing equipment.
PV developer Innovative Solar Systems (ISS) has achieved all necessary approvals and is cleared to begin construction on a 80MW solar farm in North Carolina.
Power project developer Access Power and renewable energy company EREN have launched Access Infra Africa — a company that will invest in the development of power projects in Africa.
