Power Plants

Commercial PV storage is set to grow by a factor of 700 by 2017 to become the largest segment in the solar storage market, projections by IHS suggest.

Inverter manufacturer, SMA Solar, has announced the conclusion of a process to reduce its headcount with an additional 400 voluntary job losses.

A 500kW rooftop photovoltaic power plant has been built by Turkish-German company KosiFrankensolar on the roof of beverage producer Sural in Antalya, Turkey.

The Czech Senate has approved controversial laws to end subsidies for renewable energy and to extend a tax levied on solar power plants, following a vote on Friday.

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has only imposed preliminary anti-subsidy duties on US imported polysilicon from Hemlock Semiconductor and AE Polysilicon.

Schneider Electric has supplied four of its PV Box power conversion substations to a 5MW solar power plant in Cobbs Cross, Bridgewater in the United Kingdom for Grupo Solaer.

Proposed reforms to renewable energy laws by the Spanish government have been criticised by the Spanish National Energy Commission (CNE).

Nine of Europe’s biggest energy companies have called for reforms to Europe’s energy system that would see subsidies for established renewable forms such as solar scaled back.

The Mexican Environment Ministry has confirmed it is in talks to sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) that would support a new 30MW power plant.

Inverter manufacturer Solectrica’s SGI 500XT’s transformer inverters have been selected by Argrand Energy Solutions for a 2.3MW project in North Carolina.