PV power plant system suppliers Shoals Technologies Group and Huawei Technologies are to develop and promote 'plug and play' solar PV power plant solutions globally.
PV tracking specialist IdeemaTec Deutschland has said it has secured over 50% of the tracker market in Jordan and won around 101MW of projects in the country to date.
Utility-scale PV module tracking systems specialist Exosun has formed a joint venture firm with Brazilian firm Ecoluz Part to target the emerging PV market in the country.
The managing director of PV mounting systems specialist Renusol, Stefan Liedtke, left the company at the beginning of this month, with his replacement joining from rival firm Schletter.
Israel-headquartered SolarEdge has said that its new technology, HD Wave, which the company claims dramatically reduces the magnetic and cooling elements of a PV inverter, might have won the prize endowed by Google to find a compact solution for inverters.
L&T Construction, the power transmission and distribution arm of Indian multinational Larsen & Toubro, has won contracts for the EPC of 115MW of solar power projects in southern India.
Production has begun on Saudi Arabia’s first locally-made solar inverters through a partnership between KACO and local company Advanced Electronics Company (AEC).
German-headquartered PV manufacturer SolarWorld will launch a 72-cell bifacial solar panel at this week’s Solar Power International trade show in California.
Developments in balance-of-system technologies are set to play a lead role in pushing global installed PV system costs down 40% by 2020, a report by GTM Research claims.
