Projects

PV energy provider United Photovoltaics Group has completed the purchase of PV power plants in China totalling 170MW.

German EPC service contractor IBC Solar is moving into PV project development and financing in India.

Plans by Italy’s grid operator to allow for the interconnection of energy storage to the network have resulted in the country’s first grid-connected solar-smoothing storage facility being inaugurated.

President Francois Hollande inaugurated a 12MW solar farm in central France last week which uses PV panels assembled domestically by SunPower.

ConEdison Development, a subsidiary of mammoth US utility company ConEdison developing and operating solar and wind power projects, has acquired a 50% stake in a 335MW DC solar farm in California.

ThomasLloyd CTI Asia Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of global investment banking and investment management group ThomasLloyd, has sold the rights to two solar projects on Negros Occidental in the Philippines with a combined capacity of 80MW.

Global marine terminal operator DP World has announced plans to launch a major renewable energy project equipped with PV panels in Dubai.

The Mesquite Solar 2 addition is expected to be completed in late 2016, prior to the step-down of the US Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for utility projects from 30% to 10%.

Renewable energy company Coronal Group and Panasonic Eco Solutions have announced a new portfolio of eight PV projects currently under construction in North Carolina.

Hanwha Q Cells has sold 33MWdc of solar farms in Panama that the company says was developed without “federal, state, local or corporate incentives”.