Lightsource BP has announced the appointment of Kevin Smith as CEO for the Americas, with the renewable-energy industry veteran tasked with helping lead Lightsource BP’s expansion across the region.
Silicon wafer furnace to downstream PV power plant owner, Beijing Jingyuntong Technology Co (JYT) has reported its PV power plant capacity in 2018 totalled 1,239.11MW, an 18% increase over the previous year.
JinkoPower has connected a 100MW solar plant to the grid in Mexico using 1500V smart solution from China-based firm Huawei integrating inverters and transformers.
Invenergy bags financing for 160MW Georgia solar project, Juwi and Tri-State partner on 100MW solar project in Colorado, Encavis buys 15MW solar plant in the Netherlands.
A series of issues that initially centered on the US Section 201 case, the US v China trade, China’s 531 New Deal and India’s trade tariffs, combined to slice around US$3 billion from the total global corporate funding into the solar sector in 2018, according to Mercom Capital Group.
DSM North America held an opening ceremony for a new PV project in Belvidere, New Jersey. The 20.2MW PV project is located on 26.7 hectares of land and is comprised of over 62,000 solar panels.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Canadian Solar has said it has shipped a total of 2.6GW of PV modules with its anti-LeTID (Light and elevated Temperature Induced Degradation) PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Cell) technology to date.
