Challenging competitive market conditions in Europe are forcing SunPower to re-evaluate its business strategy in the region after sales shrank and its European operations were loss-making in the third quarter of 2012.
Energy management company Schneider Electric has secured over 100MW worth of projects in India with its new Conext Core XC Inverter in the three months since its launch.
The Osaka Hikari-no-mori Project (Osaka Forest of Light Project) has now commenced following the announcement that it will be supported by a consortium of seven Japanese companies, namely Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Daihen Corporation, Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Rengo Co. and NTT Facilities.
PV installations in Southeast Asia are expected to grow at 50% annually over the next five years, bringing cumulative installations close to 5GW by 2016, according to the latest report from market researcher IHS.
Solar Planet Power, PV installers based in Ohio, US, has commissioned several ground-mounted and rooftop PV projects at elementary and high schools located in West Jefferson and Blacklick, Ohio.
The PV power generation installation capacity connected to the China State Grid was up 415% by the end of September compared to the same period last year, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) said yesterday.
Ambassador Energy’s Southern California sales team is adding personnel in response to solar repayment programs such as property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing.
