Power Plants

Australian based renewable energy developer, CBD Energy, has bought a 30% stake of the Environmental Engineering Group (EEG) Thailand.

Analysts are split on Jigar Shah’s prediction that the US will install more solar power capacity than anyone else in 2016.

Manufacturer and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, Tata Power has completed a 3MW solar power plant in just 45 days.

Yingli Green Energy Singapore, a subsidiary of PV module manufacturer Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, has donated a 3kW off-grid PV system to a school in Laos that had no prior connection to any source of electricity.

Canadian solar has beaten guidance in its Q2 2014 results with yield cos driving up demand, and prices, for projects.

The US will be the largest solar market in the world in 2016, according to industry stalwart Jigar Shah.

The “pure economics” of solar in relation to increasingly costly fossil fuels will ensure a central future role for the technology in the world energy mix, according to Citigroup.

The US state of North Carolina is to continue blooming with new solar projects, as 64MW of new solar sites reach construction.

Hanwha Q CELLS has completed its first project in Portugal as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.

A division of Mitsui, one of Japan’s largest trading groups, is to jointly invest in 25MW of PV projects in Japan with equity investment manager Tokio Marine Asset Management.