Power Plants

Three solar tracking sites in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California are now producing power.

Italian solar manufacturer Waris has announced that it will double the production capacity of its manufacturing facility in Condino, following the signing of an agreement with distributor Solarmarkt Deutschland.

Leading CIS thin-film PV module manufacturer, Solar Frontier reported its first annual profit in 2013, fuelled by the boom in the Japanese market.

In a continued effort to return its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) division to breakeven, despite two-years of downsizing and restructuring, Applied Materials said it had reduced EES spending per quarter to US$25 million.

Sunedison and United Renewable Energy (URE) have successfully collaborated on 1.3MW of solar projects in the US state of Georgia.

Leading polysilicon and wafer manufacturer GCL-Poly is to become a majority shareholder in consumer electronics firm Same Time.

A renewable energy research facility will be built in the disaster-hit Japanese region of Fukushima, after the area’s local government and Fraunhofer ISE research institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Insolvent German PV project developer, S.A.G. Solarstrom, has said it is seeking new investors as part of its restructuring plan will officially open insolvency proceedings on 1 March 2014.

A breakthrough in concentrating solar power (CSP), the US’s 392MW Ivanpah Solar Electric system has now reached full commercial operation.

The latest draft guidelines on state aid by the European Commission have drawn criticism from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), claiming they could “constrain member states' capabilities to reach their 2020 binding renewable targets".