Power Plants

California is once again outshining other states in its solar progress – this time by reaching its customer-installed solar energy goal a year early.

Energy consultancy DNV GL has acquired Barcelona-headquartered solar control and asset management systems provider GreenPowerMonitor.

Brazilian minister of mines and energy Fernando Coelho Filho has touted the potential of Brazil to become one of the largest global solar markets through the distributed generation segment.

Energy developer Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has signed off on an agreement to both construct and serve as the operations and maintenance contractor for the 102MW Lamesa Solar Facility — located in Dawson County, Texas.

Electric power holding company Duke Energy has received approval to develop a 17MW solar power plant at Naval Support Activity Crane — also known as the Crane naval station — located around 40 miles southwest of Bloomington, Indiana.

Enel Green Power Brasil (EGPB), a subsidiary of Italy-based power giant Enel has started construction of a 292MW solar PV plant in Brazil.

India-based renewables firm Azure Power has won 40MW of solar PV capacity in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power has acquired a controlling interest in the 102MW Henrietta Solar Project in Kings County, California, from SunPower. SunPower will own the remaining interest in the site.

NRG Energy and MGM Resorts International have announced the completed expansion of the 'US’ largest rooftop solar array'.

Sungrow's senior vice president David Zhou spoke with PV Tech at Intersolar Europe about the company's recent partnership with Samsung SDI.