Power Plants

The Solar Energy Industries Association has warned that proposals to reform energy taxation in the US could damage the country’s solar industry.

The first 41MW of a 400MW project in Texas has been completed, according to the developer, OCI Solar.

Government-owned Puerto Rican electric power company Autoridad de Energia Electrica (AEE) has made it mandatory for developers of renewable energy projects to incorporate energy storage into new installations.

The California Energy Commission has blocked the construction of Brightsource’s 500MW Palen project.

No solar projects were successful in the second national energy tender auction in Brazil.

Chinese PV manufacturer Goldpoly New Energy Holdings has continued the expansion of its downstream business with the acquisition of a Zhongli Talesun subsidiary and with it 180MW worth of PV projects.

Following a trade dispute and ruling by the WTO, Ontario has scrapped its domestic content requirement for wind and solar projects.

The IFC, part of the World Bank, has signed an agreement with China’s Chint Group to develop solar farms and supply chains in emerging markets.

Phoenix Solar's Singapore-based subsidiary has been awarded the contract to build a 1MWp solar plant in Jordan, along with Jordanian company Mustakbal Clean Tech.

The pipeline of grid-use PV projects approved for construction by the Philippines Department of Energy totalled 844.71MW across 38 projects, as of 30 November.