Power Plants

Inverter shipments in Europe suggest the continent is braced for another strong period of growth in 2018.

A UK start-up is launching a pontoon manufacturing facility in Cumbria with a capacity equivalent of 12MW.

The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has set a new R&D goal to develop a commercially viable thin-film-on-silicon tandem solar cell with 30% conversion efficiencies.

All 200MW of Germany’s latest wind and solar tender has been awarded to PV projects.

The US is expected to remain the world’s biggest market for energy storage until 2022, with China its closest rival, GTM Research has said.

Asia Clean Capital (ACC) has signed a distributed power supply agreement with leading skin care company Nivea (Shanghai) to build a rooftop solar system and solar carport at Nivea's factory in Qingpu, Shanghai.

Iran’s Minister of Energy has also said that, at present, the country’s installed renewable power capacity is 527MW and it will have reached 1GW as of the end of March this year.

The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) has retendered 650MW of solar capacity at the Pavagada Solar Park.

PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow and energy storage system integrator / software specialist Greensmith are working on the first community solar-plus-storage project to be delivered in the US state of Massachusetts.

Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) has retendered 1GW of solar capacity, and issued an EOI for 1GW of floating PV.