Power Plants

US solar thermal developer BrightSource Energy has shelved a 500MW concentrating solar (CSP) plant in California, according to reports.

Activ Solar, a PV developer based in Vienna, Austria, has said it has installed a total of 127.5MW of PV capacity in the first three months of 2013.

Texas-based contractor Fluor has signed a five-year contract to provide operations and maintenance services for Arlington Valley Solar Energy II's new solar power facility in Arizona.

PV installer Blue Oak Energy has completed the installation of a 4.2MW PV system in Gridley in the US state of California.

Taiwan has announced its intention to increase its 2013 solar PV target to 130MW from 100MW.

Bill Gates has given financial backing to the development of a new energy storage system aimed at cutting the intermittency of renewable energy technologies such as solar.

The government of Balochistan and CK Solar Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a 300MW PV project near Quetta, Pakistan.

Monitoring and solar system company Draker has completed the installation of its first panel-to-grid monitoring solution in Japan.

Germany registered over 211MW of newly installed PV capacity in February, according to new figures from the German Federal Network Agency.

US manufacturer Solectria Renewables is to supply its inverters to a 2.5MW ground-mounted PV system in Roswell, New Mexico.