Power Plants

Enel Green Power North America has started construction on the 497MW Roadrunner solar plant in Upton County, Texas. Once completed, the installation is set to be the largest solar facility in Enel’s US portfolio and the largest solar project in the state of Texas.

Firms to each own half of 186MWp capacity (150MW rated) built with US$180 million investment at government-sponsored Benban complex.

The Northeastern states of India, which until now have been largely overlooked by the South Asian country's solar boom, will soon be the subject of a 1GW PV tender to be issued by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI).

Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) issues a major tender shortly after neighbour Abu Dhabi released its own 2GW tender.

Risen Energy announced that its 117MW PV project in Mexico has broken ground, with Durango state governor Jose Rosas Aispuro Torres, Canatlan municipal president Dora Elena Gonzalez Tremillo and Risen Energy president Wang Hong all on hand for a ceremony to commemorate the event.

‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) leader JinkoSolar as expected, has officially opened its first 400MW module assembly plant in the US.

Huawei has defended the security of its solar inverters in the wake of calls from a group of US senators for them to be removed from use in the States.

A 9.8MW dual installation financed, built and run by Cleantech Solar for cement supplier comes to bolster modest large-scale PV scene in Asian state.

A large-scale grid-connected energy storage project, named Sunraysia Emporium, will be located adjacent to the Sunraysia solar farm.

A grateful rooftop PV industry enjoys last week's US$1.6 billion support boost, but longs for a different subsidy model with fewer processes.