SunPower has announced plans to restructure its Fab 2 cell manufacturing plant in the Philippines. The company’s Fab 1 facility was shuttered in April this year with some equipment transferred from there to Fab 2, to reduce manufacturing constraints during the second quarter.
Yingli Green Energy Holding’s acted as the exclusive PV module supplier for what is being called the largest solar plant in Latin America to date. The company delivered 40MW of its PV modules for the project, which is being developed by Gestamp Solar and Solarpack in collaboration with other local companies.
China Sunergy and Japanese conglomerate INFiNi Group advised that they had signed a sales contract, which will see China Sunergy provide 1.65MW of its solar modules to INFiNi. The solar modules, slated to be shipped by the end of the month, will be installed in Okayama First Solar Plant. This is the first ground-mounted solar project for INFiNi.
Canadian Solar has teamed up with US roofing company PetersenDean in order to offer a new roofing program. PetersenDean has initiated its own solar division and will use it to promote the program. No details were given by the companies entailing what the program or the partnership will specifically offer. However, PetersenDean did note that the program will kick-off at Santana Row, October 19-21.
ReneSola has shipped 10MW of modules to German-based PV project developer, saferay for a new PV power plant being built in Schwarzheide in Brandenburg, Germany. Saferay is using ReneSola’s 245W and 250W multicrystalline solar modules for the project.
Major PV equipment supplier, centrotherm photovoltaics has submitted its reorganization plans to the insolvency court in Ulm, Germany. Although the company did not provide details on what those plans would be, the company said in a statement that it had now entered a critical phase in its insolvency proceedings that also need creditor approval. Both its subsidiaries, centrotherm thermal solutions and centrotherm SiTec have also filed plans with the court separately.
Emcore announced that ATK had awarded it with a contract to supply its ZTJ triple-junction solar cells for use in the AMOS-6 commercial telecommunications satellite mission. The satellite has plans to be launched in early 2015 and will see Emcore’s products used to power the AMOS-6 spacecraft manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
M+W Group, a German EPC provider, has completed the acquisition of Reliable Plant Solutions GmbH (RPS), a power plant developer with headquarters in Schkeuditz, Germany. Following the takeover, the company has become a 100%-owned subsidiary of M+W Group and has been renamed as M+W Power Solutions GmbH with immediate effect. Its headquarters will remain in Schkeuditz.
Ahead of the official release from the four leading German high voltage network operators (TSOs) next week, Reuters has released information that the push towards green power could cause the country’s renewable energy surcharge to rocket by almost 47% by next year. The article states that this is a reflection of the increasing amount of electricity from renewable sources, bought from producers at guaranteed prices above market rates.
