Power Plants

June 17, 2013
UEM, the grid operator and power utility company of the French city of Metz, has commissioned a 4.5MW solar park in La Fare-les-Oliviers, a village near Aix-en-Provence in the south of the country built by Conergy.
June 17, 2013
Suntech Power Holdings claims to have sourced PV module components outside China to avoid anti-dumping duties imposed on the company by the European Commission of 48.6%.
June 17, 2013
Reduced German feed-in tariffs and rising module prices due to the impact of the EU anti-dumping investigation and preliminary duties mean the free-field PV project business in Germany is dead, according to major project developer, juwi.
June 14, 2013
Photovoltaics and semiconductor specialist materials provider Voltaix is be acquired by Air Liquide for an undisclosed sum.
June 14, 2013
Having established the PV cell performance characterization laboratory at NREL in 1980 and devoted more than three decades to photovoltaic science, Dr. Keith Emery of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will receive the William R. Cherry Award at IEEE PVSC.
June 14, 2013
Martifer Solar has extended its services for its global customer base by integrating over 250 PV power plants into a new ‘Energy Portal’ to facilitate monitoring, service and maintenance operations for customers.
June 13, 2013
First Solar is to offer 8.5 million shares at US$46.00 per share potentially bringing in US$391 million of new capital to build PV power plants.
June 12, 2013
CPV manufacturer Soitec has announced the installation of a 25kW concentrator PV demonstration plant in the village of Usib near Rehoboth in central Namibia.
June 12, 2013
Officials from Hokkaido Electric Power in Japan are being forced to review applications made by large-scale PV developers due to fears these installations could exceed the grid’s capacity.
June 11, 2013
PV installations reached a record 723MW in the first quarter of 2013, representing a 33% increase over the first quarter of 2012, according to GTM Research

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