Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of one of the world’s largest CIS module manufacturers, is nearing completion of two solar plants totalling 106MW in Southern California.
More than 16,000 Indian households across 800 remote villages will be given a solar panel, with an eight-hour battery storage backup, according to the Indian minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy and mines, Piyush Goyal.
US solar developer Innovative Solar Systems has been awarded 720MW of 25-year solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) from undisclosed power off-takers in the Mid-West.
Brazil has cancelled its only reserve energy auction for wind and solar in 2016, due to an expected power oversupply in the country, according to a Reuters report.
Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of solar power company Canadian Solar, announced that the 200MW Garland Solar Facility in California has reached commercial operation.
US-based residential and small commercial PV installer RGS Energy said it expected to have netted around US$3.6 million from its latest US$4.1 million public share offering as it struggles to comply with the NASDAQ minimum stock price rule and possible de-listing.
Spain’s new energy minister has confirmed plans for a much-anticipated 3GW of renewable auctions, but concerns remain over the parameters of the tenders.
An Arizona scheme to study the use of energy storage and smart inverters in integrating solar to the grid has contracted the deployment of 4MW of AES Energy Storage’s lithium battery systems.
Solar development in India is being held back by delays in preparing the 20GW of solar park capacity planned by the central government, according to consultancy firm Mercom Capital Group.
