Renewable energy firm SolarCity was responsible for 34% of residential solar PV installations in the first three quarters of 2015, according to GTM Research’s ‘US PV Leaderboard: Q4 2015’.
Three separate developers have won 260MW of capacity on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis for a solar park in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has acquired a 51% stake in the 200MW Garland PV project in California by signing an agreement with Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy.
The Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) is tendering for developers to take part in a 350MW solar PV project located at Sweihan, Abu Dhabi.
Materials science firm Corning Incorporated has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Duke Energy Renewables, an arm of utility Duke Energy, to purchase 50MW of the power from Duke’s 80MW solar energy plant in North Carolina.
SBG Cleantech, a joint venture between Japan-based solar firm Softbank, Taiwan-based manufacturing services provider Foxconn Technology Group and Indian business conglomerate Bharti Enterprises has won all 350MW capacity in yesterday’s National Solar Mission (NSM) auction in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh at INR4.63/kWh.
Samsung Renewable Energy, through its partnership with Connor, Clark and Lunn Infrastructure (CC&L Infrastructure), has closed on US$195 million of debt financing for a 50MW solar project in Windsor, Ontario.
Another round of tenders to build ground mount PV power plants in Germany has been oversubscribed, with some 562MW of hopefuls entering the bidding for just 200MW of capacity.
