Power engineering company Bechtel has dismissed concerns that its 358MW Soda Mountain solar project proposed for the Mojave Desert will be setback without the city of Los Angeles purchasing electricity from it.
Clenergy, best known for its mounting systems for utility-scale and commercial rooftop solar power systems, has financed and constructed a 30MW grid-connected PV plant in Zhongwei, China.
Leading microinverter firm Enphase Energy has supplied over 3,200 C250 microinverters to a single 900kW commercial PV installation in Marion, Massachusetts, its largest installation to date using the commercial microinverter.
Egyptian manufacturing company Elsewedy Electric is to start work on a 50MW project in Egypt’s Benban province, the latest in a string of solar deals in the country.
SunEdison has been granted a special permit by the Hawaii Land Use Commission to build a 50MW solar plant within the Kawailoa Plantation on the North shore of Oahu.
A subsidiary of US online retail giant Amazon will back the construction of an 80MW solar farm in Virginia to power its data centre. The Amazon Solar Farm US East will be the largest in the state.
Distributed solar energy provider Vivint Solar and construction firm Brahma Group have entered into an agreement for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of solar energy projects for commercial and industrial businesses and organizations across the US.
The construction of Kazakhstan‘s first utility-scale PV installation, which has already begun, will be supported with finance from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Tier-one PV module manufacturer JinkoSolar has supplied 33.67MW of PV modules to Chilean renewable energy company Rijn Capital for the San Pedro III PV Plant Phase I project in Chile.
