PV tracker manufacturer NEXTracker has shipped its self-powered tracker product for SunEdison’s 110MW Quilapilun solar farm near Chile’s capital of Santiago.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliff has announced that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality provided a final Permit by Rule for the 80MW Amazon Solar Farm US East — a PV project developed and owned by Community Energy in eastern Virginia.
Utility Southern California Edison (SCE) has launched a Request For Offers (RFO) to acquire renewable energy, capacity and load reduction from new sources.
Monocrystalline PV manufacture Longi Silicon Materials has signed an agreement with the authorities of Kaiping District of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China to build a 100MW agricultural PV power plant in 2016.
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to US-based renewable energy firm NextGen Solawazi to help develop a 60MW PV plant in Shinyanga, in northwestern Tanzania, a country where just 15% of the population has access to electricity.
Canadian solar developer SkyPower is to double its investment in Kenya’s solar infrastructure to US$4.4 billion after meeting with Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta at a Business Council for International Understanding last week.
There were ten solar power plants with a combined capacity of 238MW connected to the grid in the US in August, according the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Energy Infrastructure Update for August 2015.
Families on low incomes in California will be able to benefit from a new drive by PV install and leasing company SolarCity, enabled by a programme set up by the state’s regulator.
