Power Plants

The UK’s High Court has ruled that changes to support for large-scale solar projects in the UK were legal as it refused an application for a Judicial Review.

There is to be a two stage reduction in solar FiT payments with the single payment offered for systems under 30kW to also be reduced.

Hong Kong based independent power producer (IPP) Sky Solar has postponed its initial public offering (IPO) of shares, which were expected to start trading today on NASDAQ.

A partnership between Chinese PV technology company Clenergy and Xiamen National Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship Centre to develop 150MW of commercial rooftop projects, has completed its first megawatt-scale project.

First Solar and Belectric have started construction of one of the UK’s largest solar farms, a 46MW project in Oxfordshire that will bring large-scale PV capacity deployed by the pair in the UK up to 80MW when completed.

First Solar reported third quarter net sales of US$889 million, an increase of US$345 million from the second quarter of 2014. However, project delays would result in full-year revenue guidance lowered by US$100 million to a range of US$3.6 billion to US$3.9 billion.

Canadian Solar has revealed that it has also been a major winner in the recent reverse auction in Brazil for PV, securing 114MW of projects with local PV developer, Solatio in the state in Minas Gerais.

Tier-one Chinese module manufacturer, Trina Solar, has supplied 7.8MW of its 31,200 Honey modules for ten rooftop projects in Thailand.

Plans for a 300MW PV park near Bordeaux, have been unveiled.

Samsung SDI and PV inverter manufacturer, Sungrow Power Supply are to team on building and operating a lithium-ion battery energy storage plant in China and the supply of energy storage systems in the country.