Projects

Japanese telecommunications provider Softbank, which recently purchased US mobile company Sprint for US$20 billion, is considering the construction of a 40MW solar power plant in central Japan.

Toshiba International has begun construction on a 4MW solar project on the island of St Croix with the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

Solar cell and module manufacturer China Sunergy has signed two contracts to supply 9.9MW of solar modules in Romania with EPC firm Bester Generacion.

Solea and Pinpoint Ventures Holding have announced they are working on the 100MW Raasi Solar Park in Tamil Nadu in the south of India.

Construction will begin in a "matter of weeks" on the first utility-scale solar plant to be built on a Native American reserve it was announced today at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

The 345MW Copper Mountain Solar 3 PV power plant project being built by AMEC in Boulder City, Nevada is to use 1.1 million PV modules supplied by Trina Solar.

Austrian PV developer Activ Solar has completed construction work on the 116 hectare Nikolayevka Solar Park in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine.

Seven private companies and one public joint venture have received a letter of intent for 230MW of solar projects in Uttar Pradesh.

The largest ever PV power plant, dubbed the OneGiga Project and said to have cost around €1.75 billion has been shelved by the developer Securum Equity Partners and will seek €160 million from the Republic of Serbia at the International Court of Arbitration in London, England.

Sunpower Israel inaugurated the commercial operation of the largest solar power plant in Israel on Tuesday 6 August.