Power Plants

High profile solar developments have taken place recently in Dubai, Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as lofty ambitions begin to bear fruit.

An area focusing on renewable heating as well as a three-day forum on the topic will be added to offerings at Intersolar Europe at next year’s show.

Exosun, with its Exotrack HZ horizontal single-axis tracker, has become the first manufacturer of solar tracking systems to gain compliance with UL3703 certification standards.

REC management has revealed that demand for both its polysilicon and PV modules remained strong in the third quarter of 2013.

Hawaiian Electric Company has selected the US’s largest PV installer SolarCity to develop a 15MW utility-scale solar power plant on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu.

Spanish utility giant Iberdrola has claimed that regulatory reforms that would essentially kill the country’s solar industry don’t go far enough.

Malaysia’s Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) has closed 2013 applications for its solar rooftop feed-in tariff after receiving an overwhelming demand for the latest quota it made available.

Beleaguered PV equipment supplier, centrotherm photovoltaics, has given a cryptic account of deterioration in revenue expectations over the next two years, having recently reviewed its order backlog.

The Renewable Energy Company ASA has announced the results of its public share offering for its new division, REC Solar.

The head of the US’s solar trade body has called on the industry to unite against efforts to disrupt the country’s deployment of solar technology.