Power Plants

The Indian government has signed off the first 750MW batch of tenders under the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission with a softening of domestic content rules.

Conergy has won the contract to build 21MW of solar PV in Thailand, taking its capacity in the country over the 100MW mark.

Electricity from solar power could be the cheapest in South Africa by 2020, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan.

Renusol America will be unveiling its new ‘Renusol MS’ system at Solar Power International 2013.

Thin-film PV manufacturer and project developer First Solar is to construct a 250MW solar power plant in Riverside County, California, for a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources.

Japanese thin-film manufacturer Solar Frontier is to introduce its SolarSets range of standardised PV systems to the Italian residential market after agreeing a distribution deal with P.M. Service.

According to a research note from EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce based in Taiwan, PV demand could potentially outstrip supply by the first quarter of 2014.

The European Commission has announced a list of 140 electricity projects that will be fast tracked and have access to a funding pot of €5.85 billion (US$7.9 billion).

France is to lend €100 million to South Africa’s national utility Eskom to support the development of solar energy in the country.

Investment in clean energy in the third quarter of 2013 was down 20% year-on-year, marking a “worrying” loss of momentum in the sector, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.