Power Plants

Swedish furniture retailer, Ikea, is doubling the size of its US Maryland PV installation.

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents all investor owned utilities in the US, has been urged to confess or condemn the use of so-called “dark money” to pay for campaigns against solar net metering.

Real Goods Solar (RGS) has reported higher revenue and gross profit, lower operational costs and lower net loss for the third quarter of 2013.

German project developer SAG Solarstrom has insisted it is weathering continued difficulties in Europe's PV market despite posting a €6.9 million (US$9.3 million) loss for the first nine months of the year.

The European solar market is set to stabilise in the final quarter of 2013 as it recovers from 18 months of turmoil, according to the latest data from the consultancy NPD Solarbuzz.

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.