TGC Renewables, an independent renewable energy project developer, is seeking planning permission for its proposed 13MW solar park in Cambridgeshire, UK.
The ‘solar winter endures’ at PV equipment supplier BTU International, opined Paul J. van der Wansem, BTU Chairman and CEO, in a conference call that garnered no financial analyst questions.
A leading German technical and engineering testing company launched a US subsidiary, called VDE Americas, in San Jose, California, to evaluate performance yields at PV power plants in the US, Canada, Mexico and Latin America.
Isofotón, a Spanish PV project developer, has signed an agreement with the government of Honduras to develop a utility-scale PV project with an initial capacity of 150MW.
New R&D test cells produced at First Solar’s Perrysburg, Ohio factory and R&D centre have reached a new record cell conversion efficiency of 18.7%. The record was verified by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and announced by First Solar yesterday.
