The PV power generation installation capacity connected to the China State Grid was up 415% by the end of September compared to the same period last year, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) said yesterday.
Ambassador Energy’s Southern California sales team is adding personnel in response to solar repayment programs such as property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.
Insurers acting for bankrupted company Scheuten Solar Holding have assigned Suncycle to roll out a repair programme for Scheuten modules with defective junction boxes.
EPC specialist Enerparc has finished building and connected a 52.7MW solar park in Brandenburg, Germany. The construction took just three months to complete.
Utility-scale PV inverter specialist Advanced Energy Industries (AE) has reported record sales of US$60.7 million in Q3 2012, fuelled by growing demand from the North American large-scale commercial and utility markets.
Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute and European Distributed Energies Research Laboratories are organising a workshop looking at the experience of utilities in integrating high levels of electricity from PV on to the grid.
A planned restructuring of Panasonic may see its production of solar panels, small lithium batteries and other products curtailed in response to low demand and low profitability, according to reports.