The Thai Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) has announced new solar development plans for 2017, which open up several opportunities for foreign investors to participate.
Solar is on the upside in the Centennial State as Xcel Energy and the public utilities commission (PUC) have approved a settlement involving more solar, fewer grid fees and a community solar scheme.
Receiving almost three quarters of the votes, Nevada voters have passed a ballot measure that aims to break up NV Energy’s monopoly and liberalise the electricity market to more competition.
Hamburg-based O&M provider greentech has acquired the Germany-based service business of Conergy known as Conergy Services GmbH, which is also based in Hamburg and Leipzig.
US-based residential and small commercial PV installer RGS Energy reported a major decline in third quarter 2016 installations and revenue as capital issues continued to seriously hamper operations.
The Latin America region had installed 1.8GW of solar PV by the end of the third quarter this year, already up 400MW from 1.4GW in 2015, according to GTM Research’s Latin America PV Playbook for Q3 2016.
Fully-integrated solar project developer ReneSola announced Tuesday that it has provided 10.4MW of its high-efficiency polycrystalline PV modules to Saferay for a ground-mounted solar installation in Japan.
Island utility Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) has reported a significant uptick in its Customer Self Supply (CSS) solar programme that was one of two new measures introduced to replace retail net metering.
