The increasing amount of PV installed in combination with electrical storage options is bucking the trend in the opposite direction for overall residential solar installations in Germany.
Major PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power Holdings said that 50 SG1000TS central inverters were used at a recently completed 50MW PV power plant built by Jinko Power Company, a subsidiary of PV module manufacturer, JinkoSolar in Jiangxi Province, China.
Japanese CIS thin-film manufacturer, Solar Frontier, is to acquire the entire US project pipeline of Gestamp Solar in what the company said marked its first step towards becoming a significant global downstream player.
US thin-film specialist, First Solar, has landed interconnection rights for three utility-scale solar PV plants in southern Turkey within the country’s latest bidding round.
Thin-film PV module developer Ascent Solar Technologies has announced that Rafael Gutierrez has been named as the company’s senior vice president and chief operating officer.
PV OEM power distribution products producer Bentek has increased its manufacturing capacity by 40% with the opening of a new facility in San Jose, California.
Specialist PV tracking systems supplier NEXTracker has been awarded a contract to supply California-based PV EPC firm, CalCom Solar with 100MW of tracker systems that will be used in projects primarily for the EPC firm’s agricultural and water systems businesses.
Japan’s residential and small commercial solar industry could represent a “huge, huge opportunity” for suppliers of inverters and module-level power electronics, according to an analyst with market research firm IHS.
