Global EPC contractor and Saudi renewable energy company Desert Technologies announced Thursday that the 23.1MW Falcon Ma’an solar plant has been connected to the Jordanian national grid.
Edisun Microgrids has launched the first dual-axis solar tracker strategically designed and built for the commercial and industrial rooftop sector. ‘PV Booster’ claims to provide yields of 20% and higher, compared to fixed mounted modules.
Furniture giant IKEA is to add to its portfolio of solar installations in the US with the development of a 1.2MW system atop its new store in Columbus, Ohio.
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Trina Solar has supplied 33,800 multicrystalline 260W 60-cell Honey modules to the Yahyalı Solar Power Plant in Turkey, said to be one of the largest plants built in the country to date.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that it would add a further 180MW of solar PV power plants from five projects in Virginia to the grid before the end of 2017 as part of its strategy to of powering the AWS Cloud with 100% renewable energy.
US-based PV project developer Swinerton Renewable Energy’s O&M subsidiary, SOLV said it had added 1.25GW of PV assets to its operating fleet in 2016, taking PV asset management to 3.25GW.
skytron energy has further enhanced its ‘PVGuard’ PV power plant supervision platform. Version 2.4 of PVGuard focuses on fleet management that enables system owners and operators to monitor the technical performance of all PV power plants, inverters and alarms across their entire fleet in a single view, which can be filtered or sorted to suit individual requirements.
