The start of the first attempt to fly around the world powered by solar energy is now just two weeks away, starting in the United Arab Emirates, with the flight’s control centre revealed to be in Monaco.
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.
