Projects

France has sought to increase its ambitions for solar PV in the country after the technology “overshot expectations”, a government representative has said.

Clean energy power company TerraForm Power announced that it has secured additional project financing for four solar installations in Canada.

Spain-headquartered solar tracker designer and manufacturer STi Norland has signed an agreement with project owners EDF Israel and Clalsun together with Belectric Israel to provide 35MW of its single-axis trackers for the Ashalim PV project.

Global PV module producer Upsolar will provide 23.6MW of modules for a solar plant in Hilvan, Sanliurfa, Turkey.

Mining and power firm NLC India is setting up a 5MW floating solar PV plant in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Malaysia installed 31.78MW of solar PV under its Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) scheme last year, bringing cumulative capacity to 294.85MW.

UK-based solar firm WElink Energy will develop a 220MW solar plant in southern Portugal, having signed an EPC agreement with China Triumph International Engineering (CTIEC).

Major Japanese electronics company Panasonic has increased its ‘HIT’ (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) solar module product warranty from 15 years to 25 years and applies to all HIT modules installed from 2017.

Sri Lanka will go ahead with an international tender to set up a 100MW floating solar plant on the Maduru Oya Reservoir in the eastern part on the island.

Indian state Telangana will introduce a new rooftop payment scheme, Conergy has sold a Japan PV plant, ReneSola has regained compliance on the NYSE.