Power Plants

SunEdison is teaming with the Global Academy of Technology (GAT) based in Bangalore to create a research and development facility at the college's Bengaluru campus.

The French law which guarantees a feed-in tariff (FiT) bonus of 5% or 10% for PV systems made with domestically-produced content may be facing the scrapheap, according to a French environmental law specialist.

PV plant provider, S.A.G Solarstrom has sold a collection of German projects.

Integrated PV EPC firm, Martifer Solar said it was building a 78.4MWp portfolio of PV power plants in the UK for Lightsource Renewable Energy, a major player in the PV energy generation market.

EU state aid guidelines for renewable energy could hamper emerging technologies, slow the cost-decline of solar PV and put support for smaller scale projects at risk, according to 28 industry bodies.

Two Taiwan-based solar cell manufacturers, Neo Solar Power (NSP) and Topcell Solar International (TSI) have concluded new short-term wafer supply contracts from GCL-Poly totalling approximately 4GW.

Infrastructure management company, based in South Africa, Engevix has installed a pilot PV plant in Brazil.

SunPower has developed and built three PV systems at Solano Community College in California.

A 55MW PV project in southern Israel is being fitted with single-axis trackers by Spanish company Grupo Clavijo.

China’s Trina Solar has been awarded a contract to build what is set to be Jordan’s largest PV installation.