Power Plants

A key conference session at SNEC 2014, the APVIA Solar Leaders Dialogue session, held a day ahead of the start of the main SNEC exhibition, was dominated by past, present and possible future trade wars against and within the PV industry.

The government of Bolivia has appointed Spanish PV developer Isotron SAU, a subsidiary of energy company Isastur, to develop the first PV plant in the Bolivian region of Pando.

A 161-hectare brownfield site is being cleared in East St. Louis, Illinois, to make way for a planned US$65 million, 20MW solar farm.

One of Britain’s solar ‘yield cos,’ Foresight Solar Fund, has announced a debt acquisition facility, worth £100 million (US$168 million) , which will enable the fund to purchase further solar farm assets.

Major PV inverter manufacturer, Sungrow Power Supply is to debut a 60kW string inverter with 99%-plus inversion efficiency at SNEC 2014.

China has set itself a target to reach an installed solar generation capacity of 70GW by 2017.

Module manufacturer and project developer Canadian Solar has surpassed guidance on module shipments and revenue.

US firm First Solar cemented its position as the world’s leading solar engineering, procurement and construction contractor last year, but is set to be overtaken in 2014.

The first phase of the Philippines’ first utility-scale solar power plant is now online.

PV manufacturer Hanwha SolarOne has completed the installation of a 31MW rooftop installation in China.