Power Plants

SunEdison has secured ZAR1.8 billion (US$185 million) in funding for a 60MW solar project in South Africa.

Enphase Energy has cited the roll-out its fourth generation microinverter and an expanding commercial rooftop as factors behind its record quarterly revenue posted this week.

Skytron Energy is to install a power control system in a 50MW Romanian photovoltaic plant, allowing the plant to provide frequency stabilisation without energy storage equipment.

The market for microinverters and DC power optimisers could be worth as much as US$2 billion by 2020, according to a new report by Navigant Research.

Total S.A. has become a preferred bidder in the third phase of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) to build an 86MWp PV power plant using SunPower’s ‘Oasis Power Blocks’ integrated system.

International solar panel manufacturer, REC Solar, has supplied a 2.15MW ground-mounted installation with more than 8,700 solar panels in Ohio.

The Turut Ozal Medical Center of ?nönü University, Malayta in Turkey has signed a contract for the construction of a 5MW solar power plant.

NextEra Energy Resources, one of North America’s biggest renewable energy owner operators, has revealed it has a solar project backlog of 800MW.

SunPower, the second largest US solar manufacturer, has acquired solar farm cleaning equipment manufacturer Greenbotics.

The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is demanding information from organisations including utility Arizona Public Service (APS) on the possible use of ratepayer funds in controversial public relations campaigns against solar power and net metering.