Power Plants

Tyre manufacturer Continental will install a 6.1MW rooftop PV system at its factory in Hefei, China.

The US Department of Energy loans guarantee programme has made more from interest payments than it lost on failed companies such as Solyndra.

Ahead of its financial analyst day event, major PV energy provider SunPower has pre-released financial guidance for 2015, while announcing its highly anticipated next wave of manufacturing capacity expansions.

Trina Solar has won a 28.5MW contract with Camborne Capital and sPower for the pair’s UK project collaboration.

Strong growth in solar and wind will make renewable energy generation the world’s leading source of power by 2035, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

India’s Reliance Power has successfully connected the world’s largest concentrated solar project (CSP) with compact linear fresnel reflector (CLFR) technology to the grid in India’s Jaisalmer District of Rajasthan, according to the company.

Allianz Capital Partners’ Renewable Energy Fund has acquired two ground mount solar parks in Germany.

Labor refused to scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET), and has now left negotiations to have the policy slashed.

Jasper, at 96MWp the largest PV power plant in South Africa, has been completed.

Vivint Solar, the newly floated US residential PV installer, has forecast a decrease in deployments in the final quarter of the year, blaming the prospect of harsh winter weather conditions.