Almost 100MW worth of plans to install new PV generation capacity have been unveiled this week, with two new projects totalling 80MW added to the large-scale project on a former golf course which was reported yesterday by PV Tech.
A late burst of distributed solar projects will help ensure China achieves a record PV installation rate of 14GW this year, according to Tang Cheng, chairman of GCL New Energy.
South Korean PV module manufacturer, S-Energy, via its US subsidiary, has contracted Gehrlicher Solar America to design and install 7,000 S-Energy PC8 72-cell modules at 12 school facilities within the Lynwood Unified School District in Los Angeles County, California.
North American operations and maintenance service provider EDF Renewable Services has agreed to contracts for 454MW of wind and 134MWp of solar power that will be added to the company’s portfolio in Canada.
A week after German utility giant E.ON announced its withdrawal from fossil fuels and an exclusive focus on renewables, further evidence has emerged that utilities face growing disruption from distributed energy technologies.
Trina Solar, newly crowned as 2014’s top module manufacturer, is buying a minority stake in Shuntai Leasing in a move aimed at underpinning its downstream and manufacturing growth plans.
