Power Plants

Wildly varying reports of Kenya’s plans for deploying solar energy have been dismissed by power industry and policy figures in the East African country.

The national trade association for the energy storage industry in the US has changed its name to the Energy Storage Association as well as appointing a new executive director and launching a revamped website.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has said that preliminary estimates indicate that the PV industry end demand reached as high as 39GW in 2013, up 28% from 2012 and driven by massive growth in China, Japan and the US in particular.

The German cabinet approved a new charge on self-consumed solar power on Wednesday.

Chile’s pipeline of approved but unbuilt PV projects reached over 5.33GW at the end of December, according to the country’s renewable energy research centre CER.

First Solar said it had started construction of a 22MW PV power plant in Pecos County, Texas.

US-based investment bank, ROTH Capital Partners cleantech analysts have raised their 2014 market forecast for the PV industry.

The EU has proposed a binding 27% renewable energy target for 2030 and a 40% emissions reduction goal.

In his final address before retiring due to cancer, a member of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has issued a warning to his fellow commissioners to protect the state’s commitment to clean energy.

JA Solar and Powerway have formed a joint venture to establish a PV module assembly plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa with an initial nameplate capacity of 150MW.