Power Plants

EPC firm Gehrlicher Solar’s American subsidiary has been awarded a five-year preferred PV supplier contract with the US government.

PV inverter manufacturer KACO new energy has teamed with US-based Power Pro-Tech Services (PPT) to provide product support services in the US and Caribbean.

Enrich Energy has selected JinkoSolar modules for its 25.8MW solar park in Mandrup Village, Solapur District, Maharashtra State, claimed to be the first private solar park to be built in India.

Todo Solar MX has designed and built a 24kW carport at Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Baja California, Mexico, using Kyocera modules.

Abengoa and Shikun & Binui have won a bid tendered by the Israeli government to build an 110MW CSP plant with storage capability in the Negev desert.

China-based ReneSola has provided its ‘Virtus II’ modules to a non-profit organisation in South Korea, marking its first sales in the country.

Sunrun, a California-based solar company, today announced that it would be able to offer third party lease agreements to 90% of utility customers in Connecticut.

The US Energy Department and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are to develop a US$135 million test centre in Colorado for new utility-scale clean energy grid integration technologies.

German manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS is to supply modules to what is said to be Japan’s largest solar power plant.

UEM, the grid operator and power utility company of the French city of Metz, has commissioned a 4.5MW solar park in La Fare-les-Oliviers, a village near Aix-en-Provence in the south of the country built by Conergy.