Power Plants

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.

According to NPD Solarbuzz, Sharp Corporation shipped the highest volume of PV modules in the world in the first quarter of 2014, something it has been unable to achieve in the last five years.

Yingli Green will act as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner on a 5MW ground mount PV project in Thailand as part of a consortium contracted by the country’s main state owned utility.

April figures from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER) reveal that more than 3GW of PV has been installed in Australia across more than a million roofs.